Tag: schools

South Australian Labor Party Unveils Autism Strategy for Public Schools

South Australian (SA) Labor Leader Peter Malinauskas has promised to implement a new autism strategy for public schools and pre-schools if he is elected Premier in Saturday’s state election. The dedicated strategy for children on the autism spectrum will focus on specialist teachers and early intervention. Labor would invest $17.15 million (US$12.42 million) to appoint…


Coronavirus Two-Year Anniversary in Southern California; IN PHOTOS

Photo selects spanning across Southern California’s journey through the coronavirus pandemic marking the two-year anniversary of COVID-19. (John Fredricks/The Epoch Times)


CRT in Schools: Canadians Would Do Well to Discern the Chasmic Difference Between ‘Equity’ and ‘Equality’

Commentary Critical race theory (CRT) is a divisive cluster of notions that reduces human beings to cogs in an identity wheel, segregates them according to DNA, and strips them of individual agency and rights. But it has penetrated all our institutions with incredible speed and efficiency—on the horizon one day, ubiquitous the next. The public…


Woke San Francisco School Board Members Ousted for Putting Progressive Politics Over Education | Larry Elder

Larry Elder is a big advocate for school choice because “government schools” don’t always have the best reputation, especially in California. For example, three school board members in San Francisco were recently recalled by a huge percentage of the public after spending a lot of taxpayers’ time and money on things such as planning to…


San Francisco Mayor Says Recalled School Board Members Failed to Do Their Fundamental Job

Responding to the recall in which voters decisively ejected three members from the San Francisco Board of Education, Mayor London Breed acknowledged that the school board has failed to do its most basic job, which is to educate children. “It was really about the frustration of the Board of Education doing their fundamental job, and…


Face Off in Virginia: Students Unmask, Suffer School Board’s Wrath

While more and more states and districts are dropping COVID restrictions, others are doubling down. Loudoun County, Virginia is one of them. That’s where a battle is raging between state-level directives and the will of the local school board—and kids are bearing the brunt of it. On his first day in office last month, Governor…


Hundreds of West Australian Kids Sent Home From School After 3 COVID Cases Recorded

Positive COVID cases in three schools have forced hundreds of students and dozens of staff in Western Australia (WA) to self isolate for two weeks—just days within the start of the school year. A Year 12 student at Harrisdale Senior High School, a Year 11 student at Corpus Christi College, and a teacher at Winterfold…


Schools Embrace BLM ‘Week of Action,’ Teach Students to ‘Disrupt Western Nuclear Family Dynamics’

Schools across the nation are using this week to indoctrinate students with progressive activism using a curriculum promoted by the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement, a parent group warns. During the “Black Lives Matter at School Week of Action,” which kicked off Monday, public school districts from Boston to Seattle will teach lessons that corresponded…


Money Illiteracy Could Ruin Your Child and Maybe You

Many schools fail at financial education, but so do some parents and employers, financial educators say. Most K-12 American public schools don’t provide children with money management skills, studies show. Only 21 out of 50 states require financial education courses to graduate from high school, according to the Council for Economic Education latest “Survey of…


James Lindsay: Critical Race Theory Is the New Form of Marxism [Part 1]

Critical race theory (CRT) is now being pushed in every institution, from schools to the military, and from businesses to online platforms. While it is often criticized as having links to Marxism, the direct connections are often blurry. James Lindsay, bestselling author and founder of New Discourses, said that he initially didn’t believe there was…