(Headline USA) A Portland school district recently issued new “equitable grading” policies, which prohibit teachers from giving students a failing grade for missing work or even if they are caught cheating.
A handout explaining the district’s “rationale” claims the new policies are meant to address “racial disparities in our pass/fail rate...
(Headline USA) Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., one of the leading congressional voices for student loan debt forgiveness, owes up to $50,000 in student loan debt, according to financial disclosures.
Ocasio-Cortez’s latest filing shows she owed the Department of Education between $15,000 and $50,000 for her student loans as of 2022.
She repeatedly...
(Casey Harper, The Center Square) The Department of Education urged colleges and universities to continue pursuing racial diversity on campus despite a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision deeming the previous affirmative action admissions framework illegal.
“The resources issued by the Biden--Harris Administration today will provide college leaders with much-needed clarity on...
(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) A former adjunct college professor in New York City who threatened a reporter by holding a large machete to his neck may be getting a plea deal, the New York Post reported.
Bronx Criminal Court Judge Matthew Bondy suggested that there may be a "possible disposition"...
(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) In a recent tweet, conservative political activist and filmmaker Matt Walsh praised one of history's great men, Hernan Cortes, for liberating the Aztec tribe from its brutal and inhumane tribal practices.
"One of the greatest triumphs in the history of western civilization, by one of history’s...
(Headline USA) Louisville schools will remain closed early next week to allow for more time to fix bus routes whose redesign left some children at home on the first school day this year and others getting home hours late.
The Jefferson County Public Schools had already canceled classes Thursday and...
(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) A watchdog group called the Defense of Freedom Institute for Policy Studies filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration for its failure to release documents concerning donations to a University of Pennsylvania think tank, which many suspect came from China.
The group filed three Freedom of...
(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) A black-supremacist teacher was fired after she complained on social media about her sister dating a white man, the New York Post reported.
The teacher, from Texas's Mesquite Independent School District, posted racist comments on Twitter and even threatened to kill the man.
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(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) In yet another instance of cancel culture dominating college campuses, Washington and Lee University removed a plaque honoring Confederate General Robert E. Lee's warhorse, Traveller, the College Fix reported.
The steed, known for its courage and stamina, is buried on campus. Near the site of his...
(Corine Gatti, Headline USA) A California school district urged its staff during a workshop last September to send misbehaving students to diversity training rather than suspend them, according to a new report from the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Based on the Anti-Defamation League's education program, last September's workshop presentation reportedly included...
(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) According to a recently published study from the American Immigration Council, illegal immigrants make up nearly 2% of America's universities, totaling over 400,000 students,
The vast majority of these students are products of former President Barack Obama's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, otherwise known as...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) The Biden administration is facing a scathing lawsuit over its newly launched student loan forgiveness plan.
The legal challenge, brought forward by the conservative group New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA), alleges that the Department of Education violated the U.S. Constitution when it released the plan.
NCLA, on behalf...