Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill into law Tuesday that will make it harder for some people to ban books in the state’s public schools. The new law, part of the wide-ranging education bill HB 1285, will cap the number of challenges on school materials that an individual can make per year, if they do not have a student …
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Using the term “illegal alien” is reportedly an infraction worthy of suspension in a North Carolina high school. In an email to the Carolina Journal, Leah McGhee described an incident in Central Davidson High School in Lexington where her 16-year-old son was suspended for three days last week over the term. According to McGhee, an English teacher was giving an …
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CAPITOL HILL — House Republicans on Wednesday grilled Columbia University President Dr. Nemat “Minouche” Shafik regarding the employment of a professor who celebrated the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks as “awesome.” During the House Education and the Workforce’s hearing to discuss antisemitism on Columbia’s campus, Rep. Tim Walberg, R-Mich., condemned what he called the “perverse” statements by a tenured Columbia professor, …
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An anti-hate watchdog recently handed out failing grades to some of America’s most prestigious universities for their handling of antisemitism on campus, and students at the same elite institutions are speaking out, saying the findings are not surprising. “The moral corruption surrounding our elite academic institutions should be alarming to not only Jews,” University of Pennsylvania undergraduate student Eyal Yakoby …
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Students will pay more to attend Georgia’s public universities and colleges in the 2024-2025 academic year, with officials saying schools face rising costs and must charge more to maintain a quality education. Regents voted Tuesday to increase tuition and fees at the system’s 26 schools. The typical Georgia school will charge in-state undergraduates $6,466 in tuition and mandatory fees next …
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The Supreme Court on Tuesday sided with a decorated veteran of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq in a protracted fight with the government over 12 months of G.I. Bill educational benefits. The court ruled 7-2 that the Department of Veterans Affairs improperly calculated the educational benefits for James Rudisill, a retired Army captain who lives in northern Virginia. Rudisill, …
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A California school board president who received death threats after the district banned the display of banners other than the American or California state flag has been ordered to pay legal fees to one member of the community. Trustees representing the Sunol Glen School Unified School District in the East Bay, which serves 270 K-8 students, voted Sept. 12 on …
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Multiple Los Angeles-area school districts have investigated instances of “inappropriate,” artificial intelligence-generated images of students circulating online and in text messages in recent months. Most recently, the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) announced that it is investigating “allegations of inappropriate photos being created and disseminated within the Fairfax High School community,” the school district told Fox News Digital in …
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A suspicious car parked on a dead end road at 3 a.m. raised suspicions among residents in a Douglas County, Nebraska, neighborhood. That was where police ultimately found an Omaha high school teacher, Erin Ward, “putting her clothes on in the back seat,” and a naked teenager running from the scene, the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office said. The 45-year-old woman …
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After his first attempt at large-scale student loan forgiveness produced a last-minute surge of young voters to the polls in the 2022 midterms before it was struck down by the Supreme Court, President Joe Biden is trying the same trick again in 2024. In swing state Michigan on April 8, the president unveiled another plan to unilaterally reduce or eliminate …
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