Education
Somali Flag Raised Over Vermont School District
Derek Brumby/iStock/Getty Images Plus A school district in Vermont faces backlash after raising a Somali flag on its property on December 5.“We are raising the Somali flag this week in honor of our Somali youth and families in Winooski…
Letitia James Sued for Threatening School Boards That Permit Free Speech on LGBT Issues
AP ImagesLetitia James A coalition of school-board members and parents is suing New York Attorney General Letitia James and other state officials over their threats to remove school-board members who express or allow parents to express…
Maryland School Teaches Sixth Graders About Being ‘Transgender’ and ‘Nonbinary’
In celebration of “Transgender Awareness Week,” Westland Middle School, in Bethesda, Maryland, gave sixth grade students lessons on “transgenderism” and “being nonbinary.” As reported by Fox News, the 11- and 12-year-old students were inculcated…
Religious and Medical Freedoms Score Win in W.Va.
-slav-/iStock/Getty Images Plus Schools in West Virginia may no longer prevent unvaccinated children from attending, since a court ruled to allow religious and philosophical exemptions for vaccines.On November 26, circuit judge Michael…
Lessons from Albert Jay Nock – Religion & Liberty Online
Albert Jay Nock, the early-20th-century American social critic, offered a vision of education that challenged the prevailing assumptions of his time. He warned that mass schooling, designed primarily to transmit information and enforce…
University of Colorado Pays $10 Million to Students, Staff Denied Religious Exemptions From Jab Mandate
Jeffrey Beall/Wikimedia Commons The University of Colorado (CU) Anschutz School of Medicine recently agreed to pay over $10.3 million to employees and students it denied religious exemptions from its since-rescinded Covid-19 vaccine…
1,000 Professors (Supposedly) Flee the South. Reason? Their Universities Said “NO Wokeness.”
SDI Productions/iStock/Getty Images Plus In “a school to-day the baby has to submit to a system that is younger than himself,” observed philosopher G.K. Chesterton in 1910. “The flopping infant of four actually has more experience, and…
Chicago Schools Spent Millions on Travel While Students Floundered
Kseferovic/Wikimedia CommonsLincoln Park High School in Chicago Chicago Public Schools (CPS) spent millions of dollars on lavish trips for employees and students while failing to educate pupils, according to a report from CPS’ Office of…
Bill Maher: Trump Right on Ending Education Dept.
skynesher/iStock/Getty Images Plus Here’s a question: How much replication do we need in government?How many levels of government must we have doing the same thing — and sometimes conflicting with each other?How many captains should there…
Trump Administration Moves Step Closer to Dismantling Department of Education
It’s not every day when a department of the federal government is actively and vocally advocating for its own closure – but that’s what’s happening these days within the Department of Education. Linda McMahon, who heads up the department,…