Twenty-eight congressional Democrats signed a letter Wednesday condemning the Department of Education for ruling that public schools that allow biological males who identify as transgender to play girls’ sports are violating Title IX civil rights legislation. Democratic Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal joined 27 House Democrats in signing the letter, which charged that the department’s order […]
This Is So Wrong on So Many Levels: Under Digital Surveillance – How American Schools Spy on Your Kids…
For Adam Jasinski, a technology director for a school district outside of St Louis, Missouri, monitoring student emails used to be a time-consuming job. Jasinski used to do keyword searches of the official school email accounts for the district’s 2,600 students, looking for words like “suicide” or “marijuana”. Then he would have to read through […]
A ‘Family Quiz’ Assigned to Virginia Middle School Students Raised Concerns Among Parents…
The superintendent of Hopewell Schools in Hopewell, Virginia has issued a statement after parents brought concerns to them about an assignment they said was inappropriate for their children’s middle school class, our affiliate WSET reported. The schools said a teacher at Carter G. Woodson Middle School distributed a worksheet that “was also not included or […]
The Federal Government’s Reversal: Let the States Deal With Transgender Kids…
The Trump administration issued a new letter on Wednesday: The federal government will no longer stand behind Obama-era guidelines requiring schools to accommodate transgender students based on their gender identity. The new administration is withdrawing two letters, written in 2015 and 2016, in order to “further and more completely consider the legal issues involved”…
The Water in Nearly Half of Newark, New Jersey’s Public Schools Is Contaminated With Lead…
Throughout Newark, school water fountains have been shut off and notices not to drink tap water posted after annual testing by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) found elevated levels of the toxic metal in 30 of the city’s 66 public schools…
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