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  • Common sense prevails in New Jersey as school districts allowed to drop trans student policy after years-long fight

    02/15/2025 3:07:07 AM PST · by Libloather · 9 replies
    NY Post ^ | 2/14/25 | Kirsten Fleming
    Score another win for parental rights and common sense. Three school districts in New Jersey were given the green light to drop a controversial transgender student policy after years of legal wrangling. On Monday, a state appellate court issued the ruling allowing Monmouth County districts Middletown, Manalapan-Englishtown and Marlboro to remove from their books the state’s guidelines on how parents are notified if their child decides to transition. The decision was welcomed by members of the Middletown school board. On Thursday night, they voted 7 to 1 to toss controversial policy 5756 in the dustbin — and simply deal with...
  • Trump signs executive order stripping funds from schools requiring COVID-19 vaccines

    02/14/2025 1:28:00 PM PST · by CFW · 41 replies
    KGET ^ | 2/14/25 | Lexi Lonas Cochran, The Hill
    President Trump signed an executive order Friday to defund schools and other education agencies that require COVID-19 vaccines for students and staff. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the head of the Department of Education are directed to create a plan to end these mandates and end federal funding for entities that do not comply. Plans for the executive action were first reported Friday by Breitbart. The order helps Trump fulfill his campaign to end the mandates many schools enacted after the COVID-19 vaccines were developed and as cases were ravaging the country under his first...
  • Exclusive: Trump Expected to Halt Federal Funding to Schools with COVID Vaccine Mandates

    02/14/2025 8:55:32 AM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 25 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 02/14/2025 | Nick Gilbertson
    President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order on Friday halting federal funds for schools and universities that require students to be vaccinated against coronavirus before they can attend classes in person, Breitbart News has learned. According to a White House document provided to Breitbart News, the expected order also applies to education service agencies, state education agencies, and local education agencies. The order would prohibit “federal funds from being used to support or subsidize an educational service agency, state education agency, local education agency, elementary school, secondary school, or institution of higher education that requires students to...
  • Denver Public Schools Files Lawsuit Against DHS Over Policy Allowing ICE in Schools — Says Attendance Has Plummeted

    02/14/2025 7:47:09 AM PST · by Macho MAGA Man · 67 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | February 14, 2025 | Cassandra MacDonald
    Denver Public Schools has filed a lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem over a policy allowing ICE immigration agents to enter schools. The federal lawsuit claims that the policy has caused attendance to plummet due to the amount of illegal aliens in the district. “DPS is hindered in fulfilling its mission of providing education and life services to the students who are refraining from attending DPS schools for fear of immigration enforcement actions occurring on DPS school grounds,” the lawsuit states, according to a report from ABC News. “Parents across Denver enroll their...
  • Teenager accused of swatting hundreds of places nationwide pleads guilty

    11/14/2024 7:48:28 AM PST · by Twotone · 36 replies
    Just the News ^ | November 13, 2024 | Misty Severi
    A teenager allegedly behind hundreds of swatting incidents pleaded guilty on Wednesday to four counts of making interstate threats. Prosecutors claimed that 18-year-old Alan Filion of Lancaster, California, made more than 375 swatting and threatening calls from 2022 through January 2024. Some of the calls included claims that he placed bombs at religious institutions, schools, and government buildings. He also threatened to detonate the bombs or carry out mass shootings, the Justice Department reported. The teenager was mostly underage at the time of the calls, but he faces up to five years for each of the four charges. “This prosecution...
  • LA County teen and "serial swatter" gets prison time for calls with fake threats of bombs, shootings

    02/11/2025 1:18:42 PM PST · by DFG · 33 replies
    CBS News Los Angeles ^ | 02/11/2025 | Marissa Wenzke
    A Los Angeles County teenager was sentenced to four years in prison Tuesday after admitting to making more than 375 "swatting calls" in which he made false reports of bomb and mass shooting threats at locations around the U.S. Alan W. Filion, an 18-year-old Lancaster resident, admitted in a plea agreement to carrying out calls targeting places such as high schools, colleges and universities, religious institutions and people such as government officials, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Federal prosecutors said he intended for the calls to result in major emergency responses by law enforcement. This led to some...
  • Parkland school shooter’s brother arrested trying to break into schools: cops

    02/10/2025 5:45:26 AM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 11 replies
    NY Post ^ | 02/10/2025 | Patrick Reilly
    The younger brother of Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz was busted in Virginia after trying to break into three different schools, according to police. Zachary Cruz, 24, was caught on security cameras at the schools “peering inside, indicating efforts to gain unauthorized access,” according to the Augusta County Sheriff’s Office. He allegedly attempted to get into the Wilson Middle School, Wilson High School, and the Valley Career and Technical Center late on Jan. 25, and was arrested “without incident” last Tuesday. The younger brother of the Florida school shooter — who massacred 17 people in 2018 — was charged with...
  • Report: Leftist, Vampire-Obsessed After-School Teacher Accused of Sexually Abusing 2 Young Girls in NYC

    02/10/2025 2:03:48 AM PST · by CFW · 19 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 2/9/25 | Katherine Hamilton
    A left-wing, vampire-obsessed after-school program teacher is accused of sexually abusing two young girls for years at a Harlem school in New York and filming child sex abuse material, according to a new lawsuit reported on by the New York Post. “Miles McNeal, 26, an after-school program teacher whose online alter ego pushed communist propaganda and fetishized vampires, allegedly touched and photographed young students’ naked bodies, had them assume sexual positions, and showed them pictures of the genitalia of other kids while threatening them to stay silent, the victims said in court papers,” the report states. The lawsuit further alleges...
  • QUESTION CONCERNING PUBLIC SCHOOLS

    02/02/2025 5:45:56 AM PST · by 7thson · 26 replies
    Some questions for the group. These questions came to me as I continually hear how the progressive/statist areas of the United States will not allow ICE to enter the public schools to pick up illegals. Is the Department of Education the ultimate controlling authority of the public schools? If they are the ultimate controlling authority, does that not make every public school in the nation a Federal building? If they are Federal government buildings, can't ICE - being Federal - enter the Federal building? Looking forward to hearing your answers.
  • Hochul on Sanctuaries Potentially Blocking Access to Schools to Get Gang Members: I Want Gangs Removed

    02/01/2025 9:49:56 AM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 12 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 02/01/2025 | Ian hatchett
    During an interview with Univision 41 New York on Friday, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) responded to a question on gang members in schools and law enforcement being blocked from removing them from sanctuary jurisdictions who won’t let law enforcement into schools by stating that “they have to be removed. We cannot have gang members operating freely in our schools, whether they’re from a gang from another country or they’re a street gang here. We have to protect our children and our teachers in a school environment. That’s a basic necessity.” After Univision 41 New York journalist Mariela Salgado...
  • EXCLUSIVE: White House Roundtable To Highlight School Choice With Top GOP Govs

    01/31/2025 10:51:52 AM PST · by 1Old Pro · 11 replies
    DailyWire ^ | 1/31/25 | Mary Margaret Olohan
    The White House will host a Friday roundtable on school choice with top Republican governors amid sweeping victories on the issue across the country, The Daily Wire has learned. Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who spearheaded a major victory for school choice in her state after taking office, will moderate the National School Choice Week Roundtable at noon on Friday, according to a White House official. Also at the table will be Governor Bill Lee of Tennessee, where the legislature just passed a universal school choice bill, and Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick of Texas, where school choice legislation is also...
  • Texas school official resigns after hidden video captures him telling parent how to dodge transgender law

    01/30/2025 9:48:51 PM PST · by CFW · 26 replies
    Blaze media ^ | 1/30/25 | staff
    A Texas high school official resigned over the controversy surrounding an undercover video showing him telling a parent how to place a biological boy in girls' sports. Reny Lizardo resigned as executive director of campus operations for the Irving Independent School District after the hidden-camera video led Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) to call for his immediate termination. The video was obtained and published by Accuracy in Media. The video shows an alleged parent expressing concern to Lizardo about "transphobia" and "bigotry" her transgender daughter might experience if the family moves to the area of the district. "Could you legally...
  • New Trump Executive Order Bans Critical Race Theory, Gender Ideology in Public Education

    01/29/2025 3:49:57 PM PST · by ViLaLuz · 63 replies
    Daily Signal ^ | Jan. 29, 2025 | Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
    President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday prohibiting federal funding of K-12 schools that promote Critical Race Theory or radical gender ideology.
  • VIDEO: L.A. Schools Give Immigrants ‘Red Cards’ to ‘Assert Their Rights’ with ICE Officers

    01/28/2025 12:04:07 PM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 34 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 01/28/2025 | Amy Furr
    The Los Angeles Unified School District is giving out informational “red cards” to immigrants as President Donald Trump’s mass deportation of mostly criminal illegals heats up. The cards contain information about encounters with federal immigration officials, NBC Los Angeles reported Tuesday. The news comes as Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials deported 7,300 illegal migrants during Trump’s first week in office, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said, according to Breitbart News. The outlet noted: Most of the deported migrants were criminals guilty of — or facing charges of — robbery, rape, assault, domestic violence, drunk driving, and reckless driving....
  • Illegal migrant raids spark civil war as teacher turns on his own STUDENTS with startling message to ICE agents

    01/25/2025 11:04:25 PM PST · by Morgana · 63 replies
    Daily Mail UK ^ | January 26, 2025 | Will Potter
    A Texas teacher sparked outrage after urging Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to target his own students because they 'don't even speak English'. The teacher, who goes by @HookEm232 on X but has not been identified by officials, sparked an investigation from the Fort Worth Independent School District following his social media posts. The teacher responded to a daily update from ICE announcing how many arrests and detainers the agency had made against illegal immigrants amid President Trump's crackdown on his first week back in power. 'Yall should come to Fort Worth, TX to Northside High School,' the teacher...
  • ICE Enforcement Allowed At Schools, Churches Under New Trump Policy

    01/21/2025 5:56:59 PM PST · by SeekAndFind · 13 replies
    Daily Voice ^ | 01/21/2025 | Joe Lombardi
    Federal immigration authorities now have the ability to arrest individuals in and around schools and churches — areas previously considered sensitive. This new policy change involving Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, announced on the second day of the new Trump Administration on Tuesday, Jan/ 21 by Acting Homeland Security Secretary Benjamine Huffman and represents a significant shift from long-standing guidelines. “Criminals will no longer be able to hide in America’s schools and churches to avoid arrest," Huffman said in a statement. "The Trump Administration will not tie the hands of our brave law enforcement, and instead trusts them to...
  • Social-Emotional Learning (SEL)

    01/05/2025 6:36:13 AM PST · by Twotone · 11 replies
    YouTube.com ^ | 2023 | James Lindsay
    The Marxification of Education Workshop, Session 4 of 4 The hottest buzzword in education today is Social-Emotional Learning (SEL), but it's not just a buzzword. It's a huge program with almost universal installation (thanks to the Every Student Succeeds Act, ESSA, of 2015) and billions upon billions of dollars behind it. What is it? Where did it come from? Should we trust it? To the last of these questions, there are excellent reasons to believe that we shouldn't. In fact, we shouldn't want it anywhere near our children and should fight vigorously to protect them from it. We should also...
  • Fired Colorado chief of schools found dead in Maryland amid child porn investigation

    01/02/2025 11:41:01 AM PST · by dynachrome · 18 replies
    Local12 ^ | 1-2-25 | KRISTINA WATROBSKI
    A fired Colorado school district official was found dead Wednesday amid allegations he was involved in possessing "child sexual assault material," authorities told Crisis in the Classroom (CITC) on Thursday. David Weiss was fired as chief of schools for Jeffco Public Schools last month. The Washington County Sheriff's Office in Maryland notified the Jefferson County, Colorado Sheriff's Office on Wednesday it was conducting a death investigation into Weiss, the Colorado office said. Weiss was in Maryland with family to celebrate the holidays at the time of his death, according to the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office. The Washington County Sheriff's Office...
  • Living off immigrant money sent home from U.S., young Guatemalans don't want to work

    05/30/2007 9:48:16 PM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 31 replies · 1,115+ views
    AP on North County Times ^ | 5/29/07 | Juan Carlos Llorca - ap
    SALCAJA, Guatemala -- Working and going to school have become optional in this highland Guatemalan town, thanks to a flood of U.S. dollars sent home by migrants living in the United States. The family-run mills that produce brightly colored, hand-woven traditional fabrics have fallen quiet as their potential work force -- mostly young men -- hang out at the town's pool halls or video game salons, living off remittances and waiting to make their own journeys north. "Kids have easy money, and the only thing they know how to do is spend it on video games," complained Salcaja Mayor Miguel...
  • Kids aren't reading books anymore. That explains a lot about our university campuses

    12/22/2024 9:07:23 PM PST · by Fiji Hill · 65 replies
    The Deseret News ^ | October 1, 2024 | Naomi Schaefer Riley
    Kids aren’t reading anymore. That’s the conclusion of a recent article by The Associated Press noting that children are not only reading less for fun — only 14% say they do so daily compared to 27% in 2012 — but they are also not getting assigned actual books much in class either. Per the AP, “In many English classrooms across America, assignments to read full-length novels are becoming less common. Some teachers focus instead on selected passages — a concession to perceptions of shorter attention spans, pressure to prepare for standardized tests and a sense that short-form content will prepare...