Faculty Lounge Chicago High School Replaces MLK Jr. Day with Day of Seminars on Race, Islamophobia Spencer Irvine January 15, 2016 Via College Fix: New Trier High School, one of the nation’s top public schools located in Chicago’s posh North Shore,…
Faculty Lounge Students at a Chicago High School Protest their Free Cafeteria Food Spencer Irvine December 29, 2015 They are demanding better food, which they get for free to begin with. Uh, okay?
Faculty Lounge California Public Employees Unions are Banding Together against Charter Schools Spencer Irvine December 16, 2015 So these public sector employee unions are against improving children’s education with innovation of charter schools? Great *sarcasm*.
Faculty Lounge Los Angeles Public Schools Closed due to Credible Threat Spencer Irvine December 15, 2015 All public schools in Los Angeles were closed to an undisclosed, but credible, security threat.
Perspectives Common Core Computer Crack-Up Malcolm A. Kline December 6, 2015 What do Common Core and Obamacare have in common, other than the enthusiasm they engender in the White House and…
Perspectives Public Schools Abuse Immigration Laws Malcolm A. Kline November 24, 2015 You may not believe who is abusing America’s immigration laws to secure cheap labor — public schools. “The foreign teacher…
Faculty Lounge California School District Bans Drawings of Religious Leaders after Mohammed Doodle Assignment Spencer Irvine November 11, 2015 My goodness, this is now offensive?! Do we have to take everything seriously?! Acton-Agua Dulce Unified School District (California) Superintendent…
Faculty Lounge Study: Minority Teachers have Higher Quit Rate than Others Spencer Irvine September 22, 2015 This is a legitimate concern: An Albert Shanker Institute study has found that “[t]eachers of color continue to be underrepresented”…
Perspectives Baltimore’s Choice and America’s Judy Russell August 12, 2015 In January 2015, Senator Tim Scott (R-SC) has introduced the Creating Hope and Opportunity for Individuals and Communities through Education…
Faculty Lounge School Choice Celebrated by Congress Spencer Irvine July 22, 2015 School choice advocates celebrated the work of champions of the issue, reported the Washington Examiner: “School choice advocates gathered on…
Perspectives Tragedy of U.S. History Judy Russell July 14, 2015 On February 17th, an education bill was passed by the Oklahoma State House of Representatives Education Committee to “defund the…
Perspectives Detroit’s Choice Malcolm A. Kline July 9, 2015 Something is actually growing in Detroit, a city that mostly has been in the news for its losses—charter schools, 66…
