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Utah School Changes Course, Says It Won’t Allow Parents To Opt Students Out Of Black History Month Curriculum

Utah School Changes Course, Says It Won’t Allow Parents To Opt Students Out Of Black History Month Curriculum

A Utah charter school that sparked national controversy when it decided to allow parents to opt their children out of the Black History Month curriculum has now changed course. As The Hill reported, the Maria Montessori Academy faced sharp criticism when it posted a notice stating that students did not have to take part in […]

3y ago

Mother Of College Student Who Died After Charity Pancake Eating Contest Reaches Settlement With School

Mother Of College Student Who Died After Charity Pancake Eating Contest Reaches Settlement With School

The mother of a college student who died after choking during a charity pancake eating contest has reportedly reached a settlement with the Connecticut school where the tragic incident took place. Caitlin Nelson was taking part in the charity event at Sacred Heart University in 2017 when she began to choke while eating. As the […]

4y ago

Donald Trump Announces Commission To Promote ‘Patriotic Education’

Donald Trump Announces Commission To Promote ‘Patriotic Education’

In a Thursday speech delivered at the National Archives Museum, President Donald Trump announced that he will soon be signing an executive order establishing a commission to promote “patriotic education” in American schools, The Hill reported. During his address, Trump repeatedly asserted that “the left,” led by the Democratic Party, is waging a war against […]

4y ago

Donald Trump Threatens To Cut Off Education Funding In Any State Using The ‘1619 Project’ In Schools

Donald Trump Threatens To Cut Off Education Funding In Any State Using The ‘1619 Project’ In Schools

Donald Trump is continuing to do battle with interpretations of history he claims are un-American, Kevin Liptak of CNN wrote on Sunday. Trump issued a tweet on Sunday morning where he said his Department of Education would investigate whether California schools, as well as those in other states in the country, were using The New […]

4y ago

Majority Of Americans Oppose President Trump’s Push To Reopen Schools In The Fall, According To New Poll

Majority Of Americans Oppose President Trump’s Push To Reopen Schools In The Fall, According To New Poll

Nearly two-thirds of Americans oppose President Donald Trump’s push to reopen schools in the fall, according to a Yahoo News/YouGov poll released Thursday. Trump has been adamant that schools need to reopen in the fall, for in-person education, rather than online instruction. He has even threatened to withhold federal funding from educational institutions that choose […]

4y ago

Karen Littlefair Sentenced To Five Weeks In Prison For Paying Someone To Take Son’s Online College Classes

Karen Littlefair Sentenced To Five Weeks In Prison For Paying Someone To Take Son’s Online College Classes

A California woman has been sentenced to five weeks in prison for paying a co-conspirator $9,000 to take online college classes for her son, the Los Angeles Times reported. Karen Littlefair also allegedly demanded a discount when the co-conspirator only earned a C in one class. Littlefair is one of the many individuals caught up […]

4y ago

Montgomery, Alabama, To Change Names Of Three High Schools Named For Confederates

Montgomery, Alabama, To Change Names Of Three High Schools Named For Confederates

The Montgomery, Alabama, school board voted on Tuesday night to change the names of three high schools bearing the names of men affiliated with the Confederacy, The Montgomery Advertiser reported. The city has three high schools that currently bear the names of men who were tied to the Confederate side of the Civil War: one […]

4y ago

Los Angeles & San Diego School Districts Will Only Hold Classes Online, Against Trump Administration Demands

Los Angeles & San Diego School Districts Will Only Hold Classes Online, Against Trump Administration Demands

California’s two largest school districts — those of Los Angeles and San Diego — will hold online-only classes when school resumes this fall, The New York Times reported. That decision stands in contrast to the Trump administration’s push to have schools reopen for in-person instruction. In a joint statement released Monday, the two districts, which […]

4y ago

President Donald Trump Doubles Down On Schools Reopening With Fiery Tweet

President Donald Trump Doubles Down On Schools Reopening With Fiery Tweet

President Donald Trump reaffirmed his stance that schools should reopen with children attending in-person classes this fall in a pointed Twitter post on Friday. In doing so, the president once again threatened to withhold federal funding from schools should they fail to do so. Trump also strongly decried the “virtual learning” that has taken place […]

4y ago

Joe Biden Takes Aim At Trump Administration’s Education Secretary, Betsy DeVos

Joe Biden Takes Aim At Trump Administration’s Education Secretary, Betsy DeVos

Former Vice President Joe Biden, the Democratic Party’s presumptive nominee for the upcoming presidential election, continues to take aim at incumbent President Donald Trump and his administration on social media. His latest target was U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, who Biden condemned via Twitter on Wednesday for her lack of a background in public […]

4y ago

Harvard, MIT Sue Trump Administration Over International Student Visa Regulations

Harvard, MIT Sue Trump Administration Over International Student Visa Regulations

Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) over an order that would force international students on student visas out of the country in the fall if their colleges refuse to offer in-person courses, as reported […]

4y ago

A Mother Fulfills Her Longtime Dream Of Becoming A Doctor Alongside Her Daughter

A Mother Fulfills Her Longtime Dream Of Becoming A Doctor Alongside Her Daughter

An inspiring mother and daughter duo are making headlines for going through medical school together. Dr. Cynthia Kudji Sylvester is the mother of Dr. Jasmine Kudji. The pair supported one another throughout their education journey and both have committed to the LSU health system in Louisiana, according to Today. It took time for Dr. Sylvester […]

4y ago

New York Teenager Rewarded With A College Scholarship After Spending Hours Cleaning Up After A Protest

New York Teenager Rewarded With A College Scholarship After Spending Hours Cleaning Up After A Protest

Antonio Gwynn Jr. is an 18-year-old high school senior from Buffalo, New York. Last week, he decided to take it upon himself to clean up the streets of his community that had endured damage from recent protests, spending around 10 hours cleaning and picking up trash. As a result of his efforts, he was awarded […]

4y ago

Students Call For An End To Police Officers In Schools

Students Call For An End To Police Officers In Schools

Students across the country are calling for an end to police officers in schools in the wake of George Floyd’s death, Time reported. For the better part of two decades, particularly since the Columbine High School shooting in 1999, many public schools across the United States have had armed, uniformed police officers roaming the halls. […]

4y ago

Two African American Teens Suspended For Refusing To Cut Dreadlocks, Their Mothers Plan To Sue School District

Two African American Teens Suspended For Refusing To Cut Dreadlocks, Their Mothers Plan To Sue School District

DeAndre Arnold and Kaden Bradford are African American teenagers from Texas who refused to cut their dreadlocks, despite pressures from their school. They were both suspended as a result. Now their families are filing a lawsuit against the Barbers Hill Independent School District as well as the superintendent and deputy superintendent of the district, according […]

4y ago

University Of Minnesota Scales Back Relationship With Minneapolis Police Department After George Floyd Death

University Of Minnesota Scales Back Relationship With Minneapolis Police Department After George Floyd Death

The University of Minnesota has scaled back its relationship with the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) following the controversial death of George Floyd, who died in police custody, The Hill reported. In a letter sent to students, faculty and staff on Wednesday, University President Joan Gabel directed the university’s senior vice president, Brian Burnett, to “no […]

4y ago

Keanon Lowe, Coach Who Disarmed And Embraced Student, Will Receive The Congressional Medal Of Honor

Keanon Lowe, Coach Who Disarmed And Embraced Student, Will Receive The Congressional Medal Of Honor

Keanon Lowe, a 27-year-old high school football coach and former Oregon wide receiver, made headlines on May 17 of 2019 when he bravely stopped a school shooting and likely saved the lives of many students and staff members. Lowe approached a gun-wielding student, disarmed him, and then hugged him. He will now receive a Congressional […]

4y ago

Donald Trump Tweets ‘We Are Investing Greatly’ In Schools, But His Budget Slashes School Funding By 20 Percent

Donald Trump Tweets ‘We Are Investing Greatly’ In Schools, But His Budget Slashes School Funding By 20 Percent

President Donald Trump defended his administration’s education spending policies in a post made to his Twitter account on Thursday afternoon. In the tweet, Trump condemned “Fake News” reports that the Department of Education — led by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos — was planning to close “hundreds” of rural schools. In the tweet, Trump also went […]

4y ago

Chicago Public Schools Ditch Columbus Day In Favor Of ‘Indigenous Peoples Day,’ Italian Americans Are Furious

Chicago Public Schools Ditch Columbus Day In Favor Of ‘Indigenous Peoples Day,’ Italian Americans Are Furious

Chicago public schools will abolish Columbus Day in favor of Indigenous Peoples Day, St. Louis’ KMOV-TV reports. Some Italian Americans in the city are not happy with the decision. For decades, American schoolchildren have been taught a version of history that paints an incomplete picture of the impact Christopher Columbus’ voyages had on the world. […]

4y ago

Wisconsin School Bans Shirts Depicting Guns, Parents File Federal Lawsuit

Wisconsin School Bans Shirts Depicting Guns, Parents File Federal Lawsuit

The mothers of two boys in a Wisconsin school district have sued the system for a rule that prohibits students from wearing clothing that depicts guns, according to ABC News. Both boys were disciplined by the school for wearing shirts that depicted guns in a way that the family’s attorney says is completely anodyne. Kettle […]

4y ago

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