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February 19th, 2025
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Young America’s Foundation (YAF) filed a legal complaint with the Trump administration’s Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights on Wednesday alleging that Embry-Riddle Aeronautics University (ERAU) has cracked down on certain forms of speech, violating several of President Donald Trump’s executive orders.
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February 12th, 2025
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By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – February 10, 2025 Texas, Tennessee and other GOP-led states join the movement for more education freedom. The number of private school choice programs in the country grew to 81 from 65 from 2020-2024, according to the education nonprofit EdChoice. But only 33 states have choice programs, which means there are many more children...
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February 7th, 2025
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By: Brittany Bernstein – nationalreview.com – February 6, 2025 The policy does allow men to practice with women’s teams. The NCAA reformed its policy on transgender-identifying athlete participation on Thursday, limiting participation in women’s divisions to female athletes. The policy allows men to practice with women’s teams and to receive “benefits such as medical care” while practicing, according to a...
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February 3rd, 2025
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By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – January 29, 2025 NAEP reading scores continue to decline, years after Covid lockdowns. That’s the bottom line from the 2024 National Assessment for Educational Progress (NAEP) report released on Wednesday. Fourth and eighth grade reading scores declined by two points on average since 2022—roughly as much as they did between 2019 and 2022....
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January 31st, 2025
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Peoria School Board Member to Resume Bible Reading at Meetings, Will Appeal Court Decision Heather Rooks quoted scripture for personal inspiration and encouragement during open comment section of the meetings before being barred by the school board.   […]
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January 23rd, 2025
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Connecticut School Teacher Ordered to Remove Crucifix from Workspace or be Terminated from 30-Year Teaching Job Teacher has been suspended for weeks and faces losing job for having small cross hanging on wall near her desk. New Britain, […]
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December 12th, 2024
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Georgia State University Forced Conversation with Student About Faith to Cease University’s attempt to regulate speech and suppress religious expression on campus is unconstitutional and an arbitrary overreach, law firm says. First Liberty Institute sent a […]
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December 6th, 2024
First Liberty Press Release
New York School Denies Student Request to Form an Official Bible Club Despite Meeting School Requirements The school denied officially recognizing the club stating that it would “unconstitutionally” endorse religion. Waterville, NY—First Liberty Institute, along with C. Kevin […]
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December 4th, 2024
By: Jonathan Zimmerman – wsj.com – December 3, 2024 It’s no joke—universities impoverish themselves by suppressing conservatives. A student came to my office recently and told me that she voted for Donald Trump. She asked me to promise not to tell anyone. I understand why. In 2016, a student at Bryn Mawr College asked on the school’s ride-share site whether...
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November 27th, 2024
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Former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos says Donald Trump should follow through on his plan to close the Department of Education. In the decades since the U.S. Department of Education was created in 1979, taxpayers have spent hundreds of billions of dollars and not gotten much in return.
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