NEWS: Education

One of the more surprising aspects of the pandemic has been the willingness of our school systems to hold our children’s education hostage to the demands of their special interests.

If California wants equity to play a role in its vaccination strategy, we must vaccinate teachers as quickly as possible. So far, state leaders and the powerful unions that represent school employees have disagreed on that point.

Republicans want to create publicly-funded education savings accounts that families could spend on private schooling.

A Cupertino elementary school forces third-graders to deconstruct their racial identities, then rank themselves according to their “power and privilege.”

Everyone I know wants to ensure that children have access to a quality education that will set them up for success.

On Election Day, Californians voted against re‐​instituting affirmative action in public education, employment, and contracting.

Government education has been a massive failure for children of color.  They have been held hostage in failed schools, taught ideology and hatred, if taught at all. 

Online education has many worried, but even parents whose children are learning in person are concerned.

The Globe talks with numerous educators, school administrators over the failings of remote learning

The behemoth National Education Association seeks to squash popular pandemic microschools.

“Unions Indoctrinate Young Teachers And Turn Little Kids Into Social Justice Warriors

Parents know best.  Unions are in it for the money, education is a secondary effort.  by Stephen Frank. Oct, 9th, 2020

A survey released last week revealed 66-70 percent of likely voters in five battleground states this election season support publicly funded K-12 school choice, which Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden has rejected.

You might think students, their parents and teachers are important stakeholders in public education. But you would be wrong. You know this simply by listening to the vitriolic, big-money opposition to charter schools.

by Jonathan Butcher As of today, school buildings likely will be closed for the rest of the academic year in all states except Montana and Wyoming. Ready or not, if you are a parent or guardian, you may be spending the next few weeks rotating from your household and work assignments to your child’s virtual school assignments.