Commentary The last examination of Liberal Studies was held on April 27, bringing an end to 30 years of liberal studies education in Hong Kong. Naturally, the pro-establishment camp breathed a sigh of relief as their decade-long mudslinging brought an end to this subject, which supposedly heralded a new age of independent study but was…
GOP Governors Urge Biden Admin to Drop Title IX Overhaul, Protect Women’s Sports
May 12, 2023
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Half of the nation’s governors are asking the Biden administration to either withdraw or delay a proposed rule aimed at preventing schools from barring biological males from participating in female athletics programs. Led by Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves, 25 Republican governors submitted a joint comment on May 11 to Education Secretary Miguel Cardona opposing his…
Education Secretary Asks for $578 Million More to Boost Mental Health Providers in Schools
May 12, 2023
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Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona continued to place emphasis on increasing funding of mental health services in public schools at a hearing on May 11 before the Appropriations Committee on his historically high $90 billion proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2024. The budget represents a $10.8 billion increase and a review of it shows that…
Ontario Schools Must Reverse Decision to Exclude Uniformed Police From Career Day: Education Minister
Ontario’s education minister has issued a memo to school boards saying any policies prohibiting uniformed police from entering school grounds for classroom events, such as career day, “must reverse this decision.” The uniform is “a representation of their duty, and their commitment,” Minister Stephen Lecce said in his memo on May 11. “School boards who have…
The School Year Home Stretch
Whether you homeschool or send your children to school, for most parents of school-aged children, this time of year is a busy season. Calendars tend to fill quickly with recitals, concerts, ceremonies, project deadlines, and all manner of end-of-the-school-year happenings. While daydreaming about the simpler summer season on the horizon, we may suddenly become panicked…
IN-DEPTH: Virginia Congressman Leads Effort to Reform the Public Education System
A Virginia Congressman said recently that the education system in the United States is undermining American values and threatening the country’s very survival by promoting an anti-American curriculum. Rep. Bob Good (R-Va.) has made it his priority to empower parents and get the government out of education completely. “We’re literally losing our country through our…
Florida Will Lower Graduation Requirements—Again
May 9, 2023
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Despite having graduation requirements lowered two years ago, Florida superintendents are again pleading with the state’s Department of Education to delay a scheduled increase in graduation requirements. On April 20, 2021, then-Florida Department of Education (DOE) Commissioner Richard Corcoran issued an emergency order (pdf), waiving required state assessments for graduation due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Two years…
Why Did They Kill the Things They Love?
May 8, 2023
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Commentary There are several features of the pandemic policy response that still astonish me. It does not surprise me that bureaucrats couldn’t suppress, control, much less eradicate, a respiratory virus by scrapping the Bill of Rights. What I cannot get over is all the ways that the response ended up achieving the opposite of what…
Colorado Teachers’ Union Passes Anti-Capitalist Resolution, Sparking Outcry From Republicans
May 8, 2023
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Two Republican members of Colorado’s U.S. House delegation—Ken Buck and Doug Lamborn—have criticized the state’s teachers’ union for the passage of an anti-capitalist resolution at its recent assembly. In an email to the education publication The Lion, the Colorado Education Association (CEA) belatedly admitted last week to the passage of a resolution on April 22…
LIVE NOW: Senate Committee Hearing on ‘Preparing for the Next Public Health Emergency’
May 4, 2023
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The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee holds a hearing on Preparing for the Next Public Health Emergency: Reauthorizing the Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act at 1:00 p.m. ET on May 4. Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response Dawn O’Connell, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky, Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Robert…
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