Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) applauded the Education Department’s announcement today that it will not give preferential treatment to federal grant applicants with the intention of pushing Critical Race Theory. The announcement comes after Foxx urged Secretary Cardona to withdraw its American History and Civics Education programs priorities that advance racist and divisive … Continue reading Biden backs down on one federal CRT plan
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House Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) penned a letter to Department of Education Secretary Miguel Cardona in response to the announcement that the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency (PHEAA) will not seek an extension of its federal student loan servicing contract. In the letter, Foxx writes: “While this announcement raises a number of questions, … Continue reading Big lender ends federal student loan service
NJ teachers Jeanette Speck and Susan Fischer are suing the New Jersey Education Association (NJEA) for forcing “escape period” policies on workers. This particular “escape period” is heinous because it only allows 10 days in August when teachers have an opportunity to resign from the union. And, they cannot submit resignations in advance. This scheme does not protect their constitutional rights as expressed in the Foundation’s … Continue reading These teachers sued their union over ‘escape period’ scheme to trap them in dues
With free legal aid from National Right to Work Foundation staff attorneys, Chicago Public Schools (CPS) educators Ifeoma Nkemdi and Joanne Troesch are appealing to the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals their class-action civil rights lawsuit against the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) and The Board of Education of the City of Chicago (Board) for … Continue reading Chicago teachers sue their corrupt union
A group of Loudoun County parents have filed a federal lawsuit against school leaders for violating students’ free speech rights. Over the past two years, the board and administrators have incorporated controversial and radical political theory into school curriculum. Now they are asking students to be vocal supporters of these political views or face being … Continue reading Parents sue radical CRT school board for bullying kids
Staff attorneys from the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation have just submitted petitions for writ of certiorari in two class-action civil rights cases seeking to enforce workers’ First Amendment rights. In both lawsuits, public educators are challenging union boss-created restrictions on their First Amendment right to refrain from funding unwanted union hierarchies in … Continue reading Teachers sue union bosses for trapping them in dues scheme
As disruptive as the 2020/2021 academic year was, it led to many positive educational changes that will be transformative and long-lasting. Most notably, parents have been re-empowered to take back the reins of their children’s education from government bureaucrats and teachers unions. Frustrated by school closures and district “Zoom schooling,” families fled public schools in … Continue reading 4 Signs Parents Won’t Be Sending Their Kids Back to Public School This Fall
Suhr said the “bias incident response system” allows any student to “report anonymously [on] any other student and ask that they be investigated for a comment made inside or outside of school, or on social media, that someone finds inappropriate or offensive.”
I learned the word "entrepreneurship" when I was 12. I had just started my first business, and my mother informed me I was now an “entrepreneur.” I didn't know what the word meant, but I liked the way it sounded. Even better, I liked having a business. I was selling hand-knitted dolls, made from patterns … Continue reading 3 Reasons Homeschoolers Often Become Entrepreneurs
Randi Weingarten can parade through the media as a champion of children all she likes, but American parents would be correct to see right through it.
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