LOS ANGELES—Students at View Park Preparatory Accelerated Charter High School were expected to undergo a new round of COVID-19 testing Oct. 21, after a sudden spike in cases among students last week prompted the school to return to remote learning—the first known virus-related campus closure in the county since schools welcomed students back. According to…
Ex-Director of Chatsworth Trucking School Sentenced to Prison
LOS ANGELES—The former director of a San Fernando Valley trucking school was sentenced Oct. 18 to 15 months behind bars for helping to siphon more than $4 million from the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) in GI Bill funds. Robert Waggoner, 59, was also ordered to serve three years of supervised release after he…
Smart Kids Attacked for the Sake of Equity
Commentary Parents whose kids excel in school need to be on guard. Leftist school administrators across the country—not just in New York City—are banning gifted programs in elementary and middle school and Advanced Placement courses in high school. Typically, without any notice to parents, an eight grader’s accelerated science class or a fifth grader’s fast-track…
Defining Education Down
Commentary What is the greatest threat to educating children today? Is it COVID-19, or ignorance? I’m going for number two. There is growing evidence to back me up. In August, Oregon Governor Kate Brown privately signed a bill ending a requirement that high school students prove they are proficient in writing, reading and math before graduating. The…
Parenting | School’s Out with Sam Sorbo
I recently got this letter from a viewer: “Dear Sam, Thank you for what you are doing to help families make the shift to home educating. Self-teaching! I never thought I would homeschool, but we started last year and will NEVER go back! Your encouragement made all the difference, and we cannot thank you enough….
Autonomy | School’s Out with Sam Sorbo
Parents have no idea what they are sacrificing when they drop their kids off at school, and though they think they regain their autonomy, instead, they surrender it as well. This episode looks at preserving autonomy and maintaining balance in the self-teaching lifestyle. – Follow EpochTV on social media: Facebook: www.facebook.com/EpochTVus Twitter: twitter.com/EpochTVus Rumble: rumble.com/c/EpochTV…
Minnesota School Removes ‘F’ Grade and Allows Retests to Combat ‘Systemic Racism’
A Minnesota middle school said it will no longer allow teachers to give students an “F” grade for “failure”, as part of the school’s effort to tackle “systemic racism.” In a video shared on YouTube, Sunrise Park Middle School Principal Christina Pierre explained that the new grading system will replace the “F” with an “I,”…
Virginia Gov. Candidate Argues Parents Shouldn’t Have a Say in What Public Schools Teach
Virginia’s Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe argued that parents should not tell schools what to teach, during the final debate before the upcoming Nov. 2 election. The remark by McAuliffe, who served as governor of Virginia from 2014 to 2018, came after Republican candidate Glenn Youngkins said he believes that parents should be given more…
San Diego School Board Approves Vaccine Mandate for Students and Staff
September 29, 2021
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The San Diego Unified Board of Education voted unanimously Sept. 28 to pass the proposed COVID-19 vaccine mandate for all employees and eligible students age 16 years and older. The Vaccination Roadmap approved by the board Tuesday night requires district employees, partners, contractors, and other adults to be fully vaccinated by Dec. 20, or they…
Mask Up or Shut Down: Colorado School Given Ultimatum Over Mask Mandate
September 29, 2021
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A private Christian school in Loveland, Colorado, is planning to file a lawsuit against the local health department after being forced to impose a mask mandate on students under the threat of an imminent shutdown. Parents at Resurrection Christian School in Loveland, Colorado, were told on Sept. 15 that all persons entering school buildings the…
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