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What is the Biden administration’s answer to a national teacher shortage? More competitive pay for teachers, not lowering the barriers to become a teacher. As Politico reported, Department of Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said that competitive salaries could incentivize people to become teachers. He said, “Unless we’re serious about providing competitive salaries for our educators, […]

Parental rights in education bills are making their way through the local and state levels because parents are rebelling against the entrenched left-wing education bureaucracy and teachers’ unions. In New Jersey, the parental rights movement scored a victory when the Monmouth County Board of Commissioners unanimously approved a parental bill of rights in education. Fox […]

Pamela Kadakia, an equity project manager in the California Department of Education, resigned from her position this past week because she is not a resident of the Golden State. Kadakia has been a Texas resident since 2019, but was hired as a California government bureaucrat anyway. California state laws prohibit public state employees from residing […]

The obsessive loathing of Israel by large swathes of academia was evident last spring as Hamas showered southern Israeli town with some 4000 rockets and mortars. These woke, virtue-signaling moral narcissists, however, instead of denouncing genocidal aggression on the part of Hamas, of course took it upon themselves to condemn—in the loudest and most condemnatory […]

The fallout at school boards have reverberated to the top of the education bureaucracy in Ohio, when two board members at the Ohio State Board of Education resigned over disagreements on an “anti-racism” resolution. Board President Laura Kohler and board member Eric Poklar submitted their resignation letters, which were accepted by Republican Gov. Mike DeWine. […]

The Ohio State Board of Education, located in the Buckeye State and swing state in the American Midwest, voted to repeal a resolution that parroted left-wing buzzwords and ideology such as “implicit bias.” The resolution, which was passed during the Black Lives Matter-fueled riots across the country in summer 2020, was repealed by a 10-7 […]

One of the rarely-discussed effects of the coronavirus pandemic was the looming teacher shortage, both full-time and substitute teachers, across multiple states in the country. Teachers have told the media and their administrators that the pandemic raised their stress levels and made teaching less attractive than in years past. The left-wing teachers’ union, the National […]

The Department of Justice, under the leadership of Biden’s attorney general, Merrick Garland, backtracked in its strong language in defending Title IX’s religious exemption in a court filing. Last week, the department said it intended to “vigorously” defend religious colleges’ beliefs when it comes to LGBTQIA+ issues. NBC News reported that after backlash from LGBTQIA+ […]

The end of the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was met with  cheers, jubilation, and celebration as racial injustice activists and other figures claimed  it was a moment of vindication. Chauvin was found guilty on the following charges: second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter. It is unclear if Chauvin will […]

One would assume that colleges and universities in politically-red states would be immune to the onslaught of diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives spreading across the country in higher education and now, corporations. However, the University of Utah, located in Salt Lake City, is no stranger to liberal ideological indoctrination. According to the National Association of […]

Although America’s political parties are as divided as ever, it would be expected that the education of our country’s youth would be spared from the conflict. However, the year 2020, composed of brimming racial tensions, the coronavirus, and a presidential election, illuminated the goals of the left within our nation’s system of education. Following endless […]

Our intern Steven Koskulitz writes about the debate between academics on whether there should be more or less government intervention in higher education.