Fairfax County Public Schools has been embroiled in controversy after parents in the county and community have opposed the transgender push by school board members, and now the board is going to avoid any public…
Topic: public schools
Philadelphia Schools Ordered to Pay $2.3 Million for Bias Against White-Owned Business
Anti-white racism is apparently alive and well in Philadelphia: Philadelphia’s public school system was ordered to pay out $2.3 million in damages after a court found it deliberately discriminated against a white-owned business. Security and Data…
Is It Really Worth Paying $675 Billion for U.S. Education?
From the Carolina Journal: “NEA researchers estimate that the United States will spend just under $675 billon on public education this school year. To put that figure in perspective, public school spending alone is roughly equal to the gross domestic product of Switzerland, the 20th-largest economy in the world.”
End Common Core, say California Scholars
Government mandates are not looked upon in a good light in America, and Common Core is one manifestation of such animosity between citizen and government: The California Alliance of Researchers for Equity in Education (CAREE), which…
Are Charter Schools Working?
Charter schools are becoming a huge piece of the market in some of America’s most troubled cities.
Parents Upset over Gender Fluidity Teaching in a Public School
Fairfax County Public Schools, a large county school system in northern Virginia, will make formal introductions of the new teaching that people are gender-fluid (meaning no one is 100% male or female, boy or girl)….
No More Valedictorians in One North Carolina School District
Isn’t that ridiculous? “Citing what it calls “unhealthy” competition among students, the Wake County school board is the latest in the country to make valedictorians and salutatorians a thing of the past, The News & Observer of Charlotte reports.”
Milwaukee Public Schools Allocated $471,073 for Black Lives Matter Curriculum
Technically, it’s ‘cultural studies,’ but it is worrisome that the public school system decided to do this. Are they going to agitate for rioting?
Top Ten List of Why Public Schools are Exceptional
The National School Boards Association (NSBA) came up with a list of the top ten things that make public schools exceptional in 2016. See if you can spot any of these in a government school…
Local Funding = Local Schools
School boards have been vexing about their loss of authority over the schools they ostensibly govern. There is a solution to their problem, but it’s not necessarily one they want to hear. “The public must…