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AMERICANALMANAC (Jonah Adams) - West Virginia family asks Supreme Court to stop lower courts from defying its parental rights rulings

A West Virginia couple represented by Alliance Defending Freedom has petitioned the Supreme Court to review a federal appeals court ruling that forces their daughter to receive vaccinations to attend a fully virtual school, a mandate the family says violates their religious beliefs and ignores recent high court precedent. Krystle and Anthony Perry want their […] The post West Virginia family asks Supreme Court to stop lower courts from defying its parental rights rulings appeared first on American Almanac .

A West Virginia couple represented by Alliance Defending Freedom has petitioned the Supreme Court to review a federal appeals court ruling that forces their daughter to receive vaccinations to attend a fully virtual school, a mandate the family says violates their religious beliefs and ignores recent high court precedent. Krystle and Anthony Perry want their daughter enrolled in the West Virginia Virtual Academy, where every lesson takes place at home. West Virginia requires students at the academy to be "fully vaccinated" as a condition of attendance. The Perrys object on religious grounds, specifically to vaccines developed using aborted fetal cell lines. In their view, receiving the vaccine "is permanent and is itself a sin" because it…Open

JUSTTHENEWS (Greg Piper) - Judges in open mutiny against Supreme Court on parental rights in vaccine, gender policies: petition

Several appeals courts are distorting clear recent precedents against infringing parents' right to direct religious upbringing of children, challenge to West Virginia's idiosyncratic school vaccine mandate says.

HUFFPOST (U.S. News) - Families' Interest In Their Kids' Education Is Falling Around The Globe

The decline in interest comes as school systems in many high-income countries struggle with plunging test scores.

NEWSNATIONNOW (Rob Taub) - Later start time for schools in CA improve students' mental health, study finds

The results follow California passing a law in 2022 mandating later school start times for middle schools and high schools.

NYTIMES (Michael C. Bender) - How a Colorado School District Is Fighting Trump’s Anti-Transgender Push

Jefferson County, Colo., is one of the few public school systems to sue the Trump administration over demands that it revoke transgender protections or face funding cuts.

JUSTTHENEWS (Greg Piper) - Mother of alleged sexual assault victim pleads for notice, opt-out before girls wrestle males

Supreme Court already requires public schools to honor parental rights before students exposed to LGBTQ "storybooks" or treated as opposite sex, lawyers for Kallie Keeler and mother tell appeals court, seeking emergency block.

JUSTTHENEWS (The Center Square Staff) - Illinois students being failed by low academic standards, lawmaker says

Education whistleblower and author Geno Young says a tenured Hillcrest teacher told him the school was testing at about a fourth-grade level across academic subjects. Hillcrest has an about 81% graduation rate.

AMERICANTHINKER (American Thinker Blog) - This tax credit could reshape American education

By Walter Blanks, Jr Last year, Congress passed the Education Freedom Tax Credit in the One Big Beautiful Bill. For the first time ever, school choice has been implemented at the federal level.

JUSTTHENEWS (The Center Square Staff) - DOJ sues Kansas school district over alleged secret gender transitions for children

“Parental rights are paramount in the operation of America’s public schools, and Kansas City, Kansas Public Schools does not know children better than their own parents,” Assistant AG Harmeet Dhillon said in a statement.

DAILYCALLER (Christine Sellers) - Trump Admin Sues School District For Clandestine Student Gender Transitions

‘Parental rights are paramount in the operation of America’s public schools’