Public Education
Teacher’s ‘getting to know you’ form offered to not use kids’ preferred pronouns with parents(Daily Caller News Foundation) – A teacher at Catalina Foothills High School (CFHS) handed students a “getting to know you” form asking them to list their preferred pronouns and whether… Read More
Public Education
Despite shortage claims, Georgia data shows rising numbers of teachers in state(The Center Square) — Georgia’s news outlets from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution to Atlanta News First have reported about a shortage of teachers plaguing the state’s education system. Data from the state’s Department of Education shows… Read More
Public Education
School safety forum brings educators, law enforcement together(The Center Square) – More than 1,100 people registered to attend the 2023 Virginia School Safety Training Forum, which will address roughly 20 topics pertaining to school safety and student… Read More
Public Education
Education degrees are less popular than ever beforeEducation degrees have vastly declined in popularity since 1970, the National Center for Education Statistics revealed, drawing calls for more school choice and less liberal ideology in classrooms. Although the… Read More
Public Education
New York mandate for smaller class sizes will cost taxpayers $2B a yearA new state law will force New York City to spend nearly $2 billion taxpayer funds annually on additional teaching positions. The bill, which was signed by Gov. Kathy Hochul… Read More
Public Education
‘Armed with knowledge’: National conference empowers teachers to stand up to unionsAround 200 educators attended the Teacher Freedom Summit last week, a “first-of-its-kind” conference to help public school teachers understand and stand up to the unions that claim to support them. Read More
Public Education
Montana’s public schools still have 1,000 unfilled teaching positions. Easing licensing requirements may helpMontana still needs nearly 1,000 public school teachers for the upcoming year, State Superintendent Elsie Arntzen told the Board of Public Education last week. Even in… Read More
Public Education
More teachers are skipping school post-COVID than ever beforeMany education officials are concerned with the rise of chronic absenteeism among students. After all, schools can’t teach if students don’t attend. But an equally pressing, though less publicized, issue… Read More
Public Education
Labor union’s own data contradict teacher exodus claims(The Center Square) – Teacher compensation across Pennsylvania grew over the past decade, despite claims from officials that low salaries and high stress scare educators from the state in droves. Read More
Culture
Teachers’ union’s summer reading list for teachers includes porn, critical race theory(Daily Caller News Foundation) – The National Education Association’s (NEA) summer reading list for teachers includes several books promoting critical race theory (CRT) and depicting graphic sexual matters. Among the… Read More
Government
Bill easing substitute teacher certification advances in Pennsylvania(The Center Square) – The House Education Committee advanced a bill this week that extends flexibilities in hiring substitute teachers to ease school staffing shortages. Committee Chairman Rep. Peter Schweyer,… Read More
Public Education
Why can’t money buy good teachers?Local and state school officials are offering hefty signing bonuses – as much as $50,000 – to combat the nationwide teacher shortage. Despite efforts in places such as… Read More
Education
Missouri using federal COVID funds to pay for teacher certification tests(The Center Square) – Missouri’s Department of Elementary and Secondary Education will pay for educator certification tests with its remaining $500,000 in federal COVID-19 funding. The funds are from the… Read More
Courts, Public Education
California teachers sue school district for forcing them to lie about students’ gender identityTwo teachers filed a federal lawsuit against their California school district, alleging they were required to lie to parents about their children’s gender identity. The suit names the Escondido Union… Read More
DEI, Education
Sources: Teacher isn’t lying in her op-ed that ‘white-shaming’ DEI curriculum in Kansas City-area schools is brewing ‘a toxic environment’Parents should “pull their kids” from schools that offer “destructive” racial equity curricula that portray whites as privileged oppressors, multiple sources in a Kansas City-area district say. This comes after… Read More
Education, Kansas
Arkansas teachers freed from compulsory union membership; what about Kansas?(The Sentinel) — Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders recently signed into law the “Teacher Paycheck Protection” bill removing union membership as a condition of employment for that state’s teachers. Read More
Public Education
Kansas approves interstate teacher licenses pact; 6 more states neededThe Kansas Legislature approved the Interstate Teaching Mobility Compact, which would make teaching licenses portable among member states, when it’s approved by a sufficient number of states. The compact needs… Read More
Education, Kansas
Microschools continue to gain traction in Kansas. Here’s what they are and do(The Sentinel) — Microschools, which provide opportunities for enterprising teachers and parents to find alternatives to the public school system, are gaining traction across the country — and indeed, even… Read More
Education, Kansas
School board members can actually be hampered from doing their jobs by an entrenched education establishment. This new organization is here to helpImagine winning a school board seat in order to make a difference in education, only to find out the system doesn’t appear to want you to. That’s the position untold… Read More
Public Education
Florida House committee approves ‘Teacher Bill of Rights,’ limiting school administrators’ power(The Center Square) — The Florida House Civil Justice Subcommittee approved three bills that are designed to reform the Sunshine State’s civil litigation system. House Bill 1035, also known as… Read More