School surveys that collect information from students and create a perceived need for Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) curriculum have caught the attention of Missouri authorities. Attorney General Eric Schmitt issued subpoenas this week to seven school districts that allegedly employ student surveys—created by education companies Panorama and Project Wayfinder—to gather data about parents’ political…
Worry Over Student Surveying Leads Missouri Attorney General to Subpoena Seven School Districts
No Relationship Between School Masking and COVID-19 Cases: Study
Requiring masks in schools was popularized during the COVID-19 pandemic, but a new study has concluded there was no link between masking in schools and COVID-19 cases. A widely cited study published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in its quasi-journal in 2021 concluded schools without masking requirements were 3.5 times more likely…
Tell-All Report Leads the Texas Association of School Boards to Quit National Body
A nonprofit that serves local school boards in Texas joins 22 other states in withdrawing from the National School Boards Association (NSBA) after a Sept. 29, 2021 letter sent to U.S. President Joe Biden was thoroughly analyzed. Funding for the Texas Association of Schools Boards (TASB) membership renewal for the upcoming year would have been…
State Farm on Giving Transgender Books to Schools: ‘We No Longer Support the Program’
Auto and home insurance giant State Farm says it is no longer a part of a collaborative book donation campaign that promotes transgenderism to kindergartners, following a media exposé based on a whistleblower email. The internal email, allegedly leaked by concerned State Farm employees, states that the company partnered with transgender youth advocacy group The…
Texas Moms Demand Revision of Textbook That Encourages Withholding Info From Parents
A parental rights watchdog is calling on the Texas State Board of Education (SBOE) to redact an online curriculum that it believes encourages withholding information from parents about their child’s mental and physical health. In an email sent to a board member about language included in textbook publisher Goodheart-Willcox’s instructional material, Moms for Liberty alleges…
LA Unified Enrollment to Drop 30 Percent by 2031
May 19, 2022
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LOS ANGELES—Enrollment in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) is expected to drop 30 percent in the next decade, forcing district officials to make a series of tough decisions on campus closures and employment. Student enrollment in LAUSD has been falling at a rate of about 2.8 percent per year since it hit its…
How Hybrid Schools Are Reshaping Education
They’re not exactly schools, but they’re not homeschools either. They have elements of structured curriculum and institutional learning, while offering maximum educational freedom and flexibility. They provide a consistent, off-site community of teachers and learners, and prioritize abundant time at home with family. They are not cheap but they are also not exorbitant, with annual…
More Secret Gender Transition Closets Discovered in Public Schools
They started in colleges, but trans closets—rooms stocked with transgender clothes and accessories for students to change into after arriving to school and back out of before going home—are being discovered in public schools with some indication they are being kept a secret from parents. In a recent TikTok video, a California teacher implies that…
Face-to-Face Learning to Return to Australia’s NT Schools
Australia’s Northern Territory (NT) government has announced that schools in the Top End are safe and ready to welcome students back into the classroom because of a range of measures employed to minimise the spread of COVID-19. “Face-to-face learning is the best option for young Territorians. Not one or two days a week—five days a…
Group’s Audit of Florida School District Reveals Officials Often ‘Don’t Know’ Own Curriculum
April 5, 2022
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By failing to properly follow state law, its own founding charter, and sponsoring the school district’s stated policy, a Central Florida high school had to deny about 40 students college credits they had worked a semester to earn. What happened in Lake Wales Charter Schools isn’t evidence of any grand scheme by local administrators to…
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