NEWS: Education

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.

     COMMENTARY By Maureen Ferguson May 21, 2020 (AP Photo/Jim Mone) Catholic schools are a national treasure, and they are facing an existential threat due to the economic fallout of the pandemic. They have also become a political pawn in the fierce debate over the congressional response to the crisis.                    

FEE Foundation for Economic Education Parents may prefer to continue homeschooling and distance learning. Friday, May 22, 2020 Kerry McDonald  

By Gloria Romero,   Today marks the 66th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court decision declaring segregated schools unconstitutional. With all deliberate speed, little Linda Brown’s race would never again be used to access a public education “available to all on equal terms.” Sixty-six years later, our schools remain highly segregated, including in the “blue states” of New York, California, Illinois and Maryland, which have shameful legacies. A 2016 report showed that New York has the most segregated schools for blacks,...