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Laura Russo was accused of injecting teen at Long Island, New York, home without his parents' knowledge ... A former New York high school teacher accused of injecting a teen with a COVID-19 vaccine at her home without his parents' knowledge has been sentenced to community service and probation after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor charge. Laura Russo, 55, was arrested at the beginning of January, and authorities accused her of giving the 17-year-old, the son of someone she knew, a vaccine dose at her residence in Sea Cliff. Newsday reported that Russo later testified in a hearing that she...

The state of California and the Los Angeles Unified School District achieved record-high graduation rates last year despite the lingering effects of the crippling pandemic and a historic spike in student absences, prompting both praise and skepticism over the new numbers. For the high school class that graduated in 2022, the percentage of students who earned a diploma in four years in Los Angeles Unified — the nation's second-largest school system — was 86%. The rate for all of California was 87.4%. The graduation figures were released this week. For the state, this figure was a nearly 4 percentage point...

MSNBC network contributor Dr. Vin Gupta said Friday on MSNBC’s “Chris Jansing Report” that school and public health officials need to require people to wear face masks again because of an increase in COVID cases. When asked about a 39% surge in cases over the last two weeks, Gupta said, “If you’re medically high at risk, and for three years, we have been talking about what that means. I’m assuming folks know if they are medically high risk, have a treat plan in place with your medical provider. I have been pushing our colleagues in medicine to do standing prescriptions...

There was a time in America when schools did the job they were supposed to do. “Transgenderism” indoctrination did not exist. Schools made sure to prepare the future generation to succeed in the real world. However, that has now changed. Flash forward to the twenty-first century, and you will find that kids are learning about “drag queens” as well as the idea that men can be women and women can be men. These people are sick! This societal corruption is psychologically, and at times, physically, hurting our children. This is what Democrats want for your children. Think about that. Project...

If you want to see the problem with American education, look at a chart illustrating the comparative growth in the number of students, teachers, and district administrators in our public schools in the period between 2000 and 2019. (See the chart below.) The number of district administrators grew by a whopping 87.6 percent during these years, far outstripping the growth in the number of students (7.6 percent) and teachers (8.7 percent).In illustrating the difference in these rates of growth, the chart also illustrates a fundamental change that has come over our nation as a whole during this period—a change in...

Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) said Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports” that the Republicans’ opposition to the Biden administration’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for troops will lead to polio, measles and rubella outbreaks in schools. Anchor Andrea Mitchell said, “I want to ask you about the final version of the Defense Authorization Bill released by the House because it rescinds the mandatory COVID-19 vaccine for the military, which was opposed by some conservative Republican senators, largely. They say it’s hurting getting the volunteer Army getting geared up and recruitment. But there are so many vaccine requirements. They serve in close quarters....

A recent report by CriticalRace.org found that 58 of the top 100 medical schools in the United States force mandatory student training or assignments related to critical race theory, Fox News Digital reported. CriticalRace.org is a project by the Legal Insurrection Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to promoting free speech, that has been monitoring critical race theory coursework and training found on college campuses across the nation. The report found that 58 top medical schools promote the controversial idea that racism is systemic in the United States. Specifically, mandatory department training was found at 14 schools, school-wide training at 31, and...

Washington, DC, public schools will require that all students and staff test negative for the coronavirus before they are allowed to come back from Thanksgiving break. “To support a safe return from Thanksgiving break, all students and staff are expected to provide proof of a negative COVID-19 test,” the district website reads. “Families should test their students and upload test results…on Sunday, November 27.”

The arm of the American Bar Association that accredits U.S. law schools on Friday voted to eliminate the longstanding requirement that schools use the Law School Admission Test or other standardized test when admitting students. But under a last-minute revision, the rule change will not go into effect until the fall of 2025—giving law schools time to plan for new ways to admit students. The ABA’s Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar overwhelmingly voted to do away with its testing mandate after years of debate and over the objections of nearly 60 law school...

Likely very woke — yet the organization that helps oversee medical schools thinks it’s not woke enough. So says the Association of American Medical Colleges, which last week released the first-ever analysis of the extent to which “diversity, equity and inclusion” have infected the institutions training future physicians. I’ve covered this trend for years, but even I didn’t realize just how much patients should worry about the decline in standards and, in time, the quality of their own care. The AAMC surveyed 101 institutions, representing almost two-thirds of American medical schools (two are in Canada), asking for audits of their...

States are taking different approaches to how their schools teach sensitive subjects in history classes, with Colorado and Virginia taking the spotlight last week.Colorado's State Board of Education voted last Thursday in a 4-3 party-line vote to update the state's social studies curriculum for all grade levels, restoring references to the LGBT community and marginalized racial minorities that had been cut earlier this year after some parents expressed concerns over a lack of diversity. CPR News reported that the state board of education would require schools' social studies curriculum to reference minority groups throughout all grade levels in compliance with...

Fox News Digital previously reported that extremely sexually explicit books were provided to military children in DoDEA schools FIRST ON FOX – President Biden's Pentagon recently added many radical-left and so-called antiracist books into K-12 school libraries for military children, a Fox News Digital investigation has found. Fox News looked into over 50 schools, selected at random, at the Department of Defense Education Activity, which services over 66,000 military-connected children in the Americas, Europe and the Pacific. The investigation found that over the past two years, DoDEA has been stuffing antiracist literature into nearly every single school library. One of...

"When My STUDENTS Bring Up SexED I Get Excited" (Elementary School Teacher) S8xuality is Now the Only Topic for KIDS in Elementary Schools When the Woke Zealots Are in Charge. My Class is Exclusively Designed for KIDS of COLOR (Teacher

Parkland shooter Nikolas Cruz has been sentenced to life in prison without parole after being spared the death penalty by three merciful jurors last month. Cruz, 24, was emotionless in court on Wednesday as the parents and siblings of his victims wept all around him. Many of those parents spoke today to blast the defense team who defended Cruz for their 'offensive' behavior in court and to beg the judge to put Cruz in general population. Some called for other inmates to 'exercise the judgement that the court can't' and kill Cruz in custody. Judge Elizabeth Scherer thanked the parents...

Pennsylvania Democrat Senate nominee John Fetterman agreed “LGBTQ education” should be “mandatory in all schools,” during an interview with Powered By Rainbows on 7/25/2021.

What is this midterm election really about? Watch as Mark literally tears through the radical left’s agenda and why their policies and ideologies are tearing the country apart.

"Republicans want to cut Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security! Again!" So says Joe Biden in his latest blathering electoral lies. Tossing out terms like Mega MAGA Trickle-down economics, Biden's intent on stoking fear in Americans while deflecting from his administration's abominable performance. Mark is having none of Joe's contrived claptrap, instead asking the question: "are you better off than you were two years ago?" And with seemingly endless inflation, recession, rising gas prices, rising crime, woke ideologies and foreign policy failures the answer is obvious.

As a sixth-grade public school teacher in Florida, I’ve come to expect the worst from Gov. Ron DeSantis and his Department of Education. The governor’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill put a target on the back of LGBTQ students and teachers: It outlaws “classroom instruction” on sexual orientation or gender identity (whatever that is) in grades K-3 and severely limits it in grades 4-12. That was bad enough. But this fall, the situation got worse. Previously, if a parent accused us of violating the Don’t Say Gay law, they could sue the school district. Now the Department of Education has declared...

While much of the U.S. has returned to normal after the pandemic, the long-term academic harm to students endures. [cut] We can move forward rather than back. Doing so is a priority if the U.S. is to be a competitive nation in a competitive world. It also is a human necessity, as every student has God-given potential and deserves a great education. The solutions are simple. There are math and reading policies every state should immediately enact and there are ways parents can contribute. Start with a call to all parents, guardians and families—those who know their children best. You...

Wow. Somebody done raised this boy right. Watching this, I learned about HB1775, which was signed into law in 2021, made it illegal to teach Oklahoma students that “one race or sex is inherently superior to another race or sex,” that “an individual, by virtue of his or her race or sex, is inherently racist, sexist, or oppressive, whether consciously or unconsciously,” and other concepts broadly associated with Critical Race Theory.