Americans’ dissatisfaction with the quality of K-12 education in the U.S. has dropped to 32 percent, a new low in Gallup’s 27-year trend and down […] Source
If NCLA's theory survives, a fight over school funding could obligate every state with compulsory attendance and public-school-only funding to provide more financial choices to families who reject the government's curriculum.
AI:The Nebraska Department of Education is facing legal heat after a lawsuit alleges the state engages in viewpoint discrimination by restricting school funding to specific government-sanctioned curricula. If this legal theory takes hold, it could dismantle the state’s ability to dictate ideological training to children and force a massive redistribution of taxpayer dollars toward families who reject the radicalized, left-wing educational indoctrination currently being shoved down their throats in public institutions. This battle over "education as speech" threatens the foundational control these bureaucrats exert over what our youth are allowed to think and learn.Open
The taxpayer-funded University of Michigan’s College of Literature, Science, and the Arts has announced a pilot program starting next fall to conceal traditional letter grades […] Source
AI:The University of Michigan's College of Literature, Science, and the Arts is launching a pilot program next fall to conceal traditional letter grades for incoming freshmen under the guise of protecting student mental health. This move follows a broader trend of academic institutions abandoning rigor and standards in favor of psychological shielding, much like Harvard's recent struggles with grade inflation and the systematic dismantling of core disciplines at Texas A&M. By hiding performance metrics from first-year students, taxpayer-funded universities continue their descent into an era of institutional weakness where objective excellence is sacrificed to appease modern sensibilities.Open
By Melanie Kurdys The American people elected President Trump and Republican majorities to restore sanity and local control of education.
AI:Despite the mandate from the American people to restore sanity and return educational control to local communities, current efforts are merely shuffling existing failed systems rather than enacting meaningful reform. This ineffective maneuvering fails to address the core issues in our schools and represents a missed opportunity for the Trump administration and Republican majorities to implement the structural changes necessary to reclaim the education system from centralized bureaucracy.Open
As educators in the nation's second-largest district prepare for the new limits on classroom screen time, some teachers say it will be a difficult adjustment.
By Mike McDaniel The battle for age-appropriate literature in schools is important and never-ending.
A divided federal appeals court ruled that a rural Oregon school district lawfully fired an education specialist for keeping books about biological sex in his office, a decision the dissenting judge warned strips public employees of their First Amendment rights the moment a student walks by. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued its […] The post Ninth Circuit upholds firing of Oregon educator who displayed children's books on biological sex appeared first on American Almanac .
A divided federal appeals court ruled that a rural Oregon school district lawfully fired an education specialist for keeping books about biological sex in his office, a decision the dissenting judge warned strips public employees of their First Amendment rights the moment a student walks by. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued its split ruling on July 21 in the case of Roderick Theis, a licensed clinical social worker employed by the InterMountain Education Service District in rural Oregon. Theis kept three children's books in his office: Johnny the Walrus by Matt Walsh, and He Is He and She Is She by Ryan and Bethany Bomberger. All three books present sex as binary and immutable. IMESD characterized the display as a "hostile…Open
There are only so many warnings the Education Department can give before it starts taking action against noncompliant states.
A new Gallup survey shows public confidence in American higher education has declined amid rising concerns over campus politics and financial value following a brief […] Source
New York’s specialized high schools give disproportionately few seats to Black and Hispanic students, continuing a pattern that has drawn criticism.