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LOS ALAMITOS, Calif. (KABC) -- The southern section of the California Interscholastic Federation voted Thursday to make flag football an official girls' high school sport. The approval, at a CIF meeting in Long Beach, was passed by a vote of 61 in favor and 26 against, with two abstentions. Following the approval, the state federation - which governs interscholastic sports in California - is expected to take it up next month with a goal of making it an official sport in the nation's most populous state for the 2023-24 school year. The number of girls playing flag football in U.S....

A Virginia mother has been blocked from entering her son’s public high school library weeks after she complained about books in the collection being pornographic, according to a new report. Stacy Langton told the Washington Examiner Monday that Fairfax Principal Maureen Keck told her she was not allowed to enter the library anymore. One day after checking out a book with her son, Langton said she got a call from Keck telling her that parents were not allowed in the library and that this was school policy.The call came weeks after Langton publicly confronted the Fairfax County school board at...

From a lawyer’s point of view, the lawsuit’s claims are ridiculous – but they sure make the teachers look guilty. Nicole Solas, a Rhode Island mom with a kindergartener in public school, was curious about whether CRT had entered her daughter’s school. Therefore, she filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with her school district. The school has been fighting her to keep these taxpayer-funded records private and, just this week, the local branch of the National Education Association (America’s largest teacher’s union) sued to block her request. Frankly, from a lawyer’s point of view, the union’s objections are...

The University of Arizona is paying students to be social justice advocates and report on what they perceive to be ‘bias incidents’ and ‘socially insensitive behavior.’ According to The Washington Times, the students are being paid $10 per hour, for about 15 hours per week, to be social justice advocates. The students are focusing mainly on residence halls, and are also creating social justice posters to hang in the dorms and ‘partnering’ with other groups to hold social justice events on campus.

The bombing of a Russian passenger jet over the Sinai was most probably the end result of a stealth jihad operation. That might seem like a strange way of putting it, because we usually think of stealth jihad as something that radical Muslims do to subvert non-Muslim societies. Yet, unless there were already a stealth network in place, its unlikely that an ISIS operative would have been able to get by security and place a bomb on board the Russian plane. Although ISIS has taken credit for the bombing, they probably did so with the help of another group -...

WASHINGTON – Students beware: The summer vacation you just enjoyed could be sharply curtailed if President Barack Obama gets his way. Obama says American kids spend too little time in school, putting them at a disadvantage with other students around the globe. "Now, I know longer school days and school years are not wildly popular ideas," the president said earlier this year. "Not with Malia and Sasha, not in my family, and probably not in yours. But the challenges of a new century demand more time in the classroom." The president, who has a sixth-grader and a third-grader, wants schools...

Official: New law may scare teachers away PIERRE (AP) — A school superintendent expressed worry that a new federal law that requires "highly qualified" teachers in every classroom might reduce the number of students entering the profession in South Dakota. Jim Holbeck of Clark raised that concern Tuesday during a meeting between Gov. Mike Rounds and most of the state's school superintendents. The meeting centered on the No Child Left Behind Act, a federal law that focuses on student achievement and improvement. The law requires that all students be taught by highly qualified teachers. Holbeck said South Dakota has...