Showing posts with label public schools. Show all posts
Showing posts with label public schools. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 2, 2026

Tuesday, August 11, 2026

Judge orders Virginia county to replace Confederate names it restored to schools in 2024 | PBS News

Confederate army officers' names are "vestiges" of Shenandoah County's segregationist history that required separate schools for Black and white students. 

"The Confederate names were restored with complete awareness of their historic legacy and ongoing discriminatory impact," Urbanski wrote…

 https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/judge-orders-virginia-county-to-replace-confederate-names-it-restored-to-schools-in-2024


 

Thursday, April 30, 2026

How a GOP state lawmaker allied with Holocaust deniers : NPR

This January, in a drab committee room of the New Hampshire state legislature, a Republican state lawmaker teamed up with a German Holocaust denier to propose that the state's public schools incorporate a conspiracy theory when developing their lesson plans: namely, that the Nazis' murder of six million Jews during the Holocaust was a hoax...

 https://www.npr.org/2026/04/29/nx-s1-5708847/holocaust-denial-conspiracy-theory-politics


 

Monday, April 20, 2026

In Iowa, school choice is booming. Some public schools are hurting : NPR

"It's getting harder and harder to teach in public education," said Allred, who grew emotional talking about the shifting demographics and the pressure they put on public schools. Soon, Allred expects to hear for certain if Cleveland is going to be closed.

 "Someone needs to love and care for these kids that nobody cares about. And it's not that the parents don't care. They don't have the access and know the federal laws to get them somewhere. And even if they did, they might be denied."…

 https://www.npr.org/2026/04/19/nx-s1-5683199/education-school-choice-iowa-students-charter-school-cedar-rapids


 

Friday, April 10, 2026

As RFK Jr allies hailed Mississippi’s rollback of strict school vaccine rules, whooping cough surged and a baby died

A Guardian investigation has found the relationships among the three involve hundreds of thousands of dollars and benefits to Kennedy, Bigtree and Siri. As Mississippi doctors, health officials and families deal with the consequences of weaker vaccine policies, the Guardian found, Ican has used its Mississippi victory – what Bigtree called “arguably the biggest win for health freedom in history” – to raise money to expand its push to weaken vaccine laws around the country... 

“If we as a nation introduce the idea that there should be broad and widespread religious exemptions, what it will mean is that the basic framework of vaccine protection will unravel,” he said. 

In Mississippi, Edney, the state health officer, said after the ruling that it was “galling” that out-of-state interests and a federal judge had interfered in the state, weakening what he called a wonderful law that had brought 40 years of success…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/apr/09/rfk-jr-mississippi-rollback-school-vaccine-rules  


‘Masquerading as a university’: inside the brazen rightwing plan to conquer American schools

As teachers eagerly adopt its free lesson plans and the White House boosts its videos, PragerU is intent on one goal: attracting young people to conservatism…

 https://www.theguardian.com/education/ng-interactive/2026/apr/08/prageru-university-conservatism


 

Tuesday, March 24, 2026

How Michigan’s next governor will try to fix K-12 schools

Michigan's next governor will inherit an education system in which students are struggling compared to peers in other states 

How will they fix it? 

Bridge asked nine leading candidates to weigh in on a variety of education issues Readers say addressing K-12 school struggles is one of the most pressing issues this election year, according to Bridge Listens survey

https://www.michiganpublic.org/politics-government/2026-03-23/bridge-listens-how-michigans-next-governor-will-try-to-fix-k-12-schools 


 

Friday, March 13, 2026

Michigan Board of Education rejects resolution on ending gender identity lessons in schools

A Republican-led resolution to end instruction about gender identity and require that parents be informed about issues around gender transition in Michigan public schools was rejected by the Michigan's State Board of Education Tuesday...

https://www.michiganpublic.org/politics-government/2026-03-11/michigan-board-of-education-rejects-resolution-on-ending-gender-identity-lessons-in-schools 


 

Saturday, February 28, 2026

Bible-infused public school curriculum in Texas to undergo corrections for thousands of errors

The curriculum in what is known as the "Bluebonnet" textbook is among Republican-led efforts in the US to incorporate more religious teaching into classrooms. Designed by the state's public education agency, it is optional for schools to adopt, though they receive additional funding if they do so...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/26/texas-public-school-curriculum-corrections


 

Monday, January 26, 2026

Mickey Dollens: A mission to bring Christianity into schools - Freethought Today

The chaplain program represents the ground-level implementation of Christian nationalist ideology using local school boards and state legislatures to embed religious authority directly into public schools while federal leadership provides political cover...

https://www.freethoughttoday.com/free/mickey-dollens-a-mission-to-bring-christianity-into-schools/ 









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