(Headline USA) When Chicago teachers went on strike last week to protest reopening the nation’s third-largest school district, state Democrats found themselves in an uncomfortable situation pushing back against one of their biggest sources of campaign cash.
Foremost among them was Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, an outspoken union shill who...
(Headline USA) Students are poised to return to Chicago Public Schools after leaders of the teachers union approved a plan with the nation's third-largest district over COVID-19 safety protocols, ending a bitter standoff that canceled classes for five days.
While school districts nationwide have faced similar concerns amid skyrocketing COVID-19...
Public school districts have begun to screen teaching candidates on the basis of woke ideology, according to a report in Education Week.
School districts have long relied upon outside agencies to do their HR work, including hiring and developing personnel policy, and these agencies have always been dominated by the...
(Headline USA) The leader of the Chicago Teachers Union on Monday blamed the city’s mayor for the continued standoff over COVID-19 protocols as classes for hundreds of thousands of students were canceled for a fourth day.
CTU President Jesse Sharkey said union and district representatives negotiated until 10 p.m. Sunday...
Teachers in the San Francisco United School District (SFUSD) have planned what they are calling a "Sick Out," in order to avoid teaching, Breitbart reported.
They believe that the SFUSD has failed to protect them from the Omicron variant by cancelling school and expecting them to teach children in classrooms.
Hundreds...
A student at a private Catholic university said his grade was marked down for referring to God as a male.
Cecilia Gonzalez-Andrieu, a professor of theological studies at Loyola Marymount University, reportedly gave the student a bad grade on a paper because he used “male-gendered language for God repeatedly,” according...
Chicago mayor and political figurehead Lori Lightfoot is getting a taste of her own medicine as the Chicago Teachers' Union (CTU) fights for more time off due to the spread of the notoriously non-threatening Omicron variant, the Chicago Tribune reported.
Lightfoot has had several run-ins with the teachers' union in...
(Headline USA) Leaders of Chicago Public Schools canceled classes Wednesday after the teachers union voted to switch to remote learning due to the surge in COVID-19 cases, or at least their take on it, conveniently ignoring mounting evidence of the scholastic and social damage being done to children from...
(Headline USA) What students are learning about the Jan. 6 uprising at the U.S. Capitol may depend on where they live.
In a Boston suburb in heavily Democratic Massachusetts, history teacher Justin Voldman said his students will spend the day journaling about what happened and talking about the fragility of...
The Florida State legislature has introduced an intrusive bill that would require the use of cameras in school classrooms to oversee what teachers are telling students, the Epoch Times reported.
Florida's House Bill 1055 would also require teachers to wear microphones while teaching.
The massive intrusion into the classroom is justified...
(Headline USA) With the mainstream media hyping the omicron variant, the return to school from winter break will be different than planned.
Many schools are bringing back masking mandates—some requiring N95 masks—or requiring daily testing.
School and elected leaders say they are using the experience of the past two years to...
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) When the Florida legislature meets in January, it will scour through a range of funding initiatives prioritized in the fiscal 2023 budget proposal from Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis.
A big chunk of it includes an historic $23.9 billion in proposed funding to education, of which...