According to a recent report, half of the country’s 500-largest school districts have or will change their superintendent since the pandemic. The 74 reported that the churn worries education bureaucrats because forty-seven of the five-hundred…
Monthly Archives For December 2022
Government issues confusing guidance on relief funding
Leave it to the federal government to mess up or create more confusion, especially when it comes to pandemic relief funding. The Department of Education, run by Education Secretary Miguel Cardona, recently issued guidance on…
Top Ten Black Lives Matter Articles of 2022
Black Lives Matter has become a slogan synonymous with racial or social justice, but the movement itself no longer carries widespread respect or legitimacy because of significant financial and ethical scandals unearthed in 2022. Despite…
Top Five Articles of 2022
In 2022, a lot happened and it’s hard to remember everything that went on throughout the year. There was parent-driven outrage over Critical Race Theory assignments at all education levels, even at a conservative university…
Is ‘American’ offensive? Stanford’s harmful language guide says so
Stanford University was widely mocked, criticized, and ridiculed after a harmful language guide was leaked to the media. The “Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative” was circulated among the Information Technology staff this pasty May, but…
Biden’s labor board lays groundwork for unionization of NCAA athletes
Under the Biden administration, there has been a re-emergence of labor strikes and settlement of labor disputes in favor of labor unions. The most recent example is an announcement by the National Labor Relations Board…
Taliban wages war on women, bans college education
It took three months, but the Taliban officially banned women from obtaining a college education since retaking power in Afghanistan. On Tuesday, the Taliban made the decision to bar women from going to college, effective…
Kentucky Supreme Court rules against school choice tax credit program
The Kentucky Supreme Court dealt a blow to the school choice movement in the Commonwealth by ruling against the state’s Education Opportunity Account Program that would provide dollar-for-dollar tax credits to private school tuition. Before…
Maryland school transportation staff used government cards for personal use
There is yet-another example of government waste of taxpayer dollars, this time in the suburbs north of Washington, D.C. Two government employees misused purchase cards to buy items for themselves, to the tune of hundreds…
D.C. teachers approve new contract, await city council vote
The District of Columbia school teachers officially approved their new contract, which is the first contract they have had since 2019. The Washington Teachers’ Union (WTU) held a contract vote among their members and it…