The Free Beacon reported late last year: A public school district in Oklahoma announced that six of its teachers are training for concealed carry permits, and more schools may soon follow suit, according to a…
Topic: education
Feds Seek Diversity in Middle East Studies Programs
The Department of Education has started requiring universities that receive federal funding for Middle East Studies centers to report on how their programs are including diverse perspectives and a wide range of views. This is…
Students at a Chicago High School Protest their Free Cafeteria Food
They are demanding better food, which they get for free to begin with. Uh, okay?
Omnibus Bill Approves Dept of Education’s Overreach
The Republicans caved on the omnibus spending bill, which empowered the overreach of the Department of Education on college campuses.
D.C. Homeschooling Rises by a Third in Two Years
Home-based education is a rising trend in D.C. education.
California Public Employees Unions are Banding Together against Charter Schools
So these public sector employee unions are against improving children’s education with innovation of charter schools? Great *sarcasm*.
Los Angeles Public Schools Closed due to Credible Threat
All public schools in Los Angeles were closed to an undisclosed, but credible, security threat.
Common Core Computer Crack-Up
What do Common Core and Obamacare have in common, other than the enthusiasm they engender in the White House and widespread disappointment they generate outside of it? Both programs have fatal computer glitches. “New Hampshire-based…
Does Freedom of Religion Extend to the Classroom?
It’s a valid question and a good take from an AFA Journal piece.
Common Core in South Dakota is Being Sued
Via Education News: Continuing its legal battle to stop the federal government from usurping control over the nation’s elementary and secondary public schools, the Thomas More Law Center (TMLC), a national public interest law firm…