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SEMINOLE COUNTY, Fla. - A Florida middle school teacher has been arrested under suspicion of child abuse after she allegedly grabbed a student's arm and "dragged" him out of the classroom and into the hallway, according to the Seminole County Sheriff's Office. Seminole County teacher arrested What we know: Fada Concepcion is a 7th grade science teacher at Tuskawilla Middle School and has been employed with Seminole County Public Schools for 29 years, the district said. She was arrested on Oct. 1 for suspected child abuse after a student said he was "dragged" by his arm from his desk, out...

If THIS was your child’s teacher, would you have a problem? Saints, be honest. In this Saints in the City reaction, Pastor Rod looks at classroom clips of a teacher leading students through lessons and asks parents and grandparents a direct question: how would YOU respond? We’re talking about teacher mannerisms, classroom presentation, Christian parenting, and the questions children might bring home. Watch the clips, hear the conversation, and tell me what your answer would be based on. Let’s go to the Bible, because parental responsibility starts at home. In Deuteronomy 6:6–7, we see the instruction to teach children diligently,...

As the university system increasingly becomes a wildly expensive bastion of anti-Western sentiment, key figures in Silicon Valley are betting on alternatives to higher education. They argue that even the Ivy League is no longer producing the best candidates — nor are they even accepting some of the most qualified students. “It used to be the case that you could rely on somebody who went to an Ivy or Ivy-equivalent to be top notch,” said Jordan Hirsch, who runs Palantir’s semester-long intensive Meritocracy Fellowship, which accepts high school graduates.“But that’s not the case anymore… we suspected that there was a...

“The Republican party has plenty of things wrong with it, but the other side is so crazy they’re celebrating our assassinations and sharia law.” —DC_Draino on X (Rogan O’Handley)The leaves turn and the season quickens and, in a few weeks, comes an election more dreaded than all the slavering blood beasts of Halloween. Do you suppose, as I do, that America is tired of being insane? The pathetic part of this national nervous breakdown is how unnecessary it actually is. Our national problems are not that difficult to understand and correct. Here’s an inventory of them:Making a living 1. So...

The Education Department has approved a plan to cut federal loans to college programs that result in low-earning jobs - a move the Trump administration sees as an opportunity to rein in runaway borrowing, while critics argue it is a blow to students seeking degrees in such fields as music, public service and religious studies.

There’s about to be fewer feet sticking to frat floors and hands slapping the bag. US colleges are facing an enrollment cliff after the population of Americans aged 18 peaked last year. Undergraduate enrollment is projected to decline by 13% in the next 15 years, according to the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education. Meanwhile, many schools are already in a pickle: Families are increasingly bargain hunting for the most generous financial aid as they doubt the value of a higher education. Meanwhile, the Trump administration has restricted international student visas, denting enrollment in the process.

A California man was charged Monday with operating a ring of illegal test-takers who helped dozens of Middle Eastern nationals obtain U.S. student visas by passing proficiency and college-placement exams for them. Eamonn Daniel Higgins, 46, of Laguna Niguel made an appearance in U.S. District Court in Santa Ana on one count of conspiracy to commit visa fraud as immigration agents arrested 16 of his suspected clients who remained in Southern California... The allegations revealed a potentially dangerous security breach in the country's student visa system and underscored the vulnerability of a tracking process that relies on schools to verify...

For 22-year-old Andrew Coates, becoming a professional firefighter seemed like a natural next step. He already volunteers with the Cedar Bluffs Fire Department in Nebraska. He holds a state EMT license. He has experience responding to emergencies and wants to make a career out of doing what he already loves. But when Coates applied to become a paid firefighter in Fremont, Nebraska, he ran into an obstacle that had nothing to do with fighting fires. He had been homeschooled. The city's original job posting required "graduation from high school." But Fremont rejected Coates because his homeschool diploma did not come...

I'm working family genealogy tonight and researching my First Cousin twice removed. She was born in February 1898 in Fleming, Saskatchewan, Canada. She died at age 102 in 2000 in Vancouver, British Cloumbia, Canada. I never met her. I found that she passed her high school entrance examination in July 1912 when she was 14 years old. That got me to thinking "How odd...no automatic advancement to high school in Manitoba in 1912? How did entrance exams work in Canada back then?"Sure enough, the entrance exams were tough! (see below) I had no idea how hard it was to get...

I've avoided the Nikole Hannah-Jones pile-on, in which conservatives (and other sane people) have trashed the former New York Times columnist and liberal icon for condemning her daughter to a poor education in order to score political points. I didn't do so because I didn't have thoughts. I did. Plenty of them. I just wasn't certain I had anything to contribute to the pile-on beyond "What a bad mother, that lefty." I was pretty certain that my colleagues would step up to the plate, and they did, beautifully. Ten years ago, New York Times writer Nikole Hannah-Jones wrote a viral...

A New Jersey public school forced students to keep an image of Dem Rep. Analilia Mejia on their school-issued computers to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month two months before election day, an angry parent has alleged. The screen background was reportedly set for all students in the Glen Ridge Public School system, and a parent said that their child’s Spanish teacher threatened to student the student to the principal if they changed it. “I was outraged,” the parent, who wished to remain anonymous due to fears of retaliation, told The Post. “We’re in the school system because we’re the number one...

Beege Wellborn wrote about this earlier and her post got me interested in reading the entire article published by the NY Times. All I can say is that the full story is even worse than Beege made it sound. I found myself feeling some actual anger at a parent who is so wrapped up in her own boutique politics that she can't be bothered to see things from the perspective of her own child for more than a few minutes at a time.What comes across in the full article is not just that Hannah-Jones sacrificed her own child's education for...

The writer behind the New York Times’ controversial 1619 Project deliberately sent her daughter to poor Big Apple schools as a “sacrifice” to try to boost the education system — and no one is angrier than the kid. The teen is now “boiling” mad — badly behind her peers after finally being allowed to enroll in a more rigorous high school, her mother revealed in a bombshell bizarre essay. Nikole Hannah-Jones, 50, enrolled her only child in two struggling Brooklyn public schools beginning in 2015 — as part of a battle to change what she characterized as systemic racism, despite...

Students for Life of America President Kristan Hawkins has said officials at the Catholic Gonzaga University shut down her attempts to dialogue with a group of pro-abortion “reproductive justice” advocates that gathered to protest her visit to the campus. “I was banned from tabling. The administration prevented students from coming inside to ask questions. ‘Catholic’ student protestors demanded the Church bend to abortion,” Hawkins said. “This indoctrination is happening on college campuses across America, including at ‘Catholic’ schools. Let’s be clear: you cannot be Catholic and support abortion. The backlash I faced here is in direct contradiction to the Church.”...

Senate Democrats are ramping up calls to impeach Education Secretary Linda McMahon and for an inspector general's investigation over her efforts to dismantle the agency she leads. She is the second Cabinet secretary that has become the subject of potential impeachment in as many days. Republican Rep. Thomas Massie on Tuesday introduced articles of impeachment against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. "Secretary McMahon is unlawfully trying to eliminate the Department of Education, and in doing so, she's costing taxpayers untold amounts of money and other resources," Sen. Angela Alsobrooks said. President Donald Trump campaigned on closing the Department of Education and...

A 2026 analysis from the Progressive Policy Institute (PPI) shows a strong negative correlation between the political strength of state teachers’ unions and the adoption of evidence-based early literacy policies.The New York Post reports at least eight of the ten states where students had the worst literacy scores were liberal bastions with politically powerful teachers’ unions, while just five were Republican and one was a swing state.The top-performing states were overwhelmingly conservative and had less politically powerful unions — of the 23 top-performing states, 13 were Republican majority and just 4 were Democratic hubs, according to the New York Post.The...

Catholic parents in Massachusetts are fighting for custody of their trans teen whom they say authorities illegally snatched from their care for secret gender-affirming treatments. Joseph and Arlene Kutzko are completely cut off from their 17-year-old daughter Sophie, whom child protective services removed from their care in 2024 allegedly because they would not recognize the biological female as a boy, the couple told Fox’s Lighthouse Faith podcast. Staff at Sophie’s high school in the town of Northborough exposed their daughter to “LGBTQ teachings in topics that conflict with our Catholic beliefs” and eventually counseled her on her own gender transition,...

California high school students are scoring more straight A’s than ever – but it’s not necessarily because they’re getting smarter, according to data and education experts. The number of college applicants reporting flawless GPAs of 4.0 or higher has doubled over the past decade even as state testing shows a post-pandemic plunge in reading and math comprehension — revealing a grade-inflation crisis that’s sending students who can’t even do fractions into top universities. Over the past decade, the number of students applying to the University of California system with straight A’s skyrocketed from 52,989 in 2015 to 103,138 for the...

SAN DIEGO (CN) — San Diego can keep an ordinance blocking leafletting in public spaces near schools, despite an anti-abortion protester who said the restriction was unconstitutional. U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel found Friday the ordinance was narrowly tailored and did not prevent demonstrators like Don Blythe from communicating their message. “The city enacted this ordinance in an extraordinarily polarized political environment, wherein issues impacting students are subject to immense and impassioned public debate, protest, and opposition," Curiel, a Barack Obama appointee, wrote. “The court cannot ignore this evolving societal context and finds that it lends support to the city’s...

I was sitting in my home office not far from the Pentagon when it happened. The TV behind me had the sound lowered, but I suddenly became aware of a major development. I reached for the remote and cranked up the audio.A plane had struck one of the twin towers in New York. TV anchors initially speculated it must have been a small plane that had run off course, but a much larger plane struck the building, and then a second one hit the other tower. It quickly became clear America was under attack. I saw smoke rising from the...