This week the NY Times reported on a new trend that is raising concern among New York City progressives. Some conservative and moderate parents are speaking up at parents councils about what school policy on hot-button issues should look like. Perhaps nowhere are tensions more evident than in District 2, a sprawling and diverse section […]
We’ve seen this issue cropping up before to the consternation of parents, educators, and law enforcement. Unfortunately, it doesn’t appear that it will be going away any time soon. Parents of students at Laguna Beach High School in Los Angeles were informed last week that Artificial Intelligence-generated nude images of female students at the school […]
Seattle used to have a program to identify gifted students and put them in special classes or schools. These gifted students were collectively known as the Highly Capable Cohort (HCC). But the HCC was not racially equitable which meant that in 2018 the school system started taking steps to dismantle it. This article is from […]
Having solved all other problems facing the state, Massachusetts is currently debating legislation to address disruptive student behavior in schools. But unlike other plans that might actually try to remove disruptions, this plan would ban teachers and public school administrators from suspending or expelling students. The ban wouldn’t apply to all students, or at least […]
Image Credit: Justice for Landon / Facebook The Tennessee Conservative Staff – A Clarksville mother is petitioning the local school board to terminate a tenured teacher who allegedly screamed at her special needs son and pulled his hair. Jacaira Crockett organized a group that held a demonstration at the Clarksville-Montgomery County School Board on Tuesday, […]
Image Credit: Canva By David Seal [Special to The Tennessee Conservative] – Marion Knight is a resident of Jefferson County and a distinguished retired schoolteacher. She offered to help Jefferson County Schools two years ago by volunteering to ride on a few bus routes as a citizen monitor. After getting the bureaucratic run-arounds about her […]
As with many other parts of the country, several counties in Maryland have recently seen parents pushing back against inappropriate sexual content in school libraries and getting some books removed from the shelves. The books primarily deal with either transgender ideology or more adult sexual content of any nature. But the Democrats in the state […]
Image: Bill sponsor Sen. Paul Bailey answers questions about SB2923 in the Senate Education Committee. Image Credit: capitol.tn.gov The Tennessee Conservative Staff – The Senate Education Committee passed a bill that would require Tennessee students in public schools and public charter schools to take an annual handgun safety course. Senator Paul Bailey (R-Sparta-District 15) presented […]
Image Credit: Canva The Tennessee Conservative Staff – The Tennessee Senate Education Committee will hear a proposed law on Wednesday that would require an annual handgun safety course for all public school and public charter school students. Senate Bill 2923 (SB2923), sponsored by Senator Paul Bailey (R-Sparta-District 15), would make it mandatory for students to learn […]
Image Credit: capitol.tn.gov The Tennessee Conservative [By Rebecca Scott] – The Tennessee Senate has passed an amended bill intended to bring more clarity to the suitability of library materials found in Tennessee’s public and charter schools. Senate Bill 1060 (SB1060) was substituted with its companion bill, House Bill 0843 (HB0843), and passed in the Senate […]
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