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(CNSNews.com) - A new science-based educational curriculum has been launched to help elementary and middle school students appreciate the role of science in their lives and to counter the animal rights-based curriculum known as humane education. "Misinformation gets skewed into the spin of those types of [humane] curriculums, and all of a sudden, kids become zealots for a cause that they really don't completely understand, and they have never been given the whole picture," M. Sue Benford, executive director of the Ohio Scientific Education & Research Association (OSERA), told CNSNews.com. OSERA is a member of the national group, States United...

For Immediate Release: Taxpayers Against Agendas in Public Schools Plans Protest. Sacramento, California. October 26, 2003: In response to the first meeting for the Humane Education Learning Community Public Charter School, Taxpayers Against Agendas in Public Schools will be protesting this exploitation of our tax dollar. The term "Humane Education" originates from the animal rights movement. This new charter school is designed for the sole purpose of indoctrinating children into the philosophy of Speciesism and Animal Rights. The main petitioner of this Charter School is Yale Wishnick, Board Member of Psychologists for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. Numerous animal protection...

<p>IF YOU TOOK every failed, trendy educrat idea, packaged them in a school and put radical animal-rights activists in charge of it, you'd end up with something like the Humane Education Learning Community -- a K-6 charter school approved by Sacramento's San Juan Unified School District.</p>

Home Current Issues Petition Press Releases About Contact Info UPDATE - Call to Action! The San Juan Unified School Board approved the "Humane Education" Charter School. "Humane Education" originates from the animal rights movement. This new charter school is designed for the sole purpose of indoctrinating children into the philosophy of speciesism and Animal Rights. Here is where you can read about what is behind this school. This school is an abuse of your tax dollar. As taxpayers, we have a contract with the government to provide all children with education in return for our money. They should get a...

(CNSNews.com) - A controversial curriculum focusing on "humane education," which advocates say includes compassion for animals, awareness of environmental problems like so-called global warming and overpopulation as well as non-violence, is expanding into the U.S. public school system. Last week, a local school board near Sacramento, Calif., became the second district in the nation to create an entire school based on the humane education curriculum. "I think it will help to create a more well-rounded, caring student," Cheryl Spencer-Scher told CNSNews.com. Spencer-Scher is the director of humane education at the Charlestown, W.Va.-based National Humane Education Society, an organization dedicated to...