The Republican-led Committee on the Judiciary and its Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government issued an interim report Tuesday on the Department of Justice’s aggressive actions and investigations into parents who dared to voice concerns about local school boards. The committee made no bones about its conclusions, headlining the document in hold…
The headline says it all, doesn’t it? North College Hill City School District in Cincinnati, Ohio, recently ranked #597 out of 607 Ohio school districts, according to the state’s evaluation index. By my grading scale, that’s straight F-minuses across the board. The district’s preposterous excuse? The teachers are “all worn out.” Oh, noes! On second…
A couple of weeks ago, The New Yorker took an in-depth look at “the right-wing mothers fueling the school-board wars.” Among the “right-wing mothers” is Moms for Liberty, a group that’s actually made some headway in the fight to give parents a bigger say in their kids’ education. Recently, Moms for Liberty scored a victory…
We’ve seen this take before from plenty of other progressives, but Ron Filipkowski really manages to cover a lot of ground in just one tweet. Everything the conservatives have been doing about public schools, including those domestic terrorists who showed up at school board meetings, wasn’t to make public schools better … it was all…
By KIMBERLEE KRUESI and MICHAEL MELIA, Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — As middle school teacher Brittany Paschall assembled a lesson plan on the history of the Negro Baseball Leagues, she wondered how she might have to go about it differently next year under a new Tennessee state law that prohibits teaching certain concepts of…