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Legislative showdown looming on tenure and academic freedom
After a century of Democratic mismanagement, Chicago is hemorrhaging population, catastrophically underfunding massive pension promises, and taxing the bejeebus out of its crime-scarred residents.
North Dakota attack on tenure barely defeated
Schools are allowed to preserve sex-based restrictions for athletes provided they are "substantially related to the achievement of an important educational objective."
“After School Satan Clubs” cause no direct harm—they merely challenge the relationship between religious institutions and public schools.
There are some jarring contradictions in the Florida governor's pitch to voters.
Families don’t all want the same sort of education for their children. They should be free to choose.
The college swimmer was reportedly forced to barricade herself in a room for three hours.
The call was for trigger warnings for "any traumatic content that may be discussed, including but not limited to: sexual assault, domestic violence, self-harm, suicide, child abuse, racial hate crimes, transphobic violence, homophobic harassment, xenophobia."
The union "has an outsized impact on working families who have no other choice on where to send their children...that power, combined with a mayor who is essentially a wholly owned subsidiary, would make them a dangerous force," says one former Chicago Public Schools executive.
No, and that good news needs to be front and center in all discussions of gun control, especially after school shootings.
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"We are here because one preschooler pulled down another preschooler's pants," says defense attorney Jason Flores-Williams.
College players on student visas face complex barriers when it comes to profiting off their names, images, and likenesses.
When "graduation becomes close to a virtual guarantee, it also becomes pretty functionally meaningless," says one education researcher.
New bill makes a mockery of parents’ rights, school choice, and educational freedom.
Maria Montessori valued independence and experimentation in a time of authoritarianism.
Yes, says the Texas Supreme Court, applying Texas law.
56 percent agreed that "people often graduate without specific job skills and with a large amount of debt to pay off."
Excessive government interference in the market hurts consumers and thwarts policy goals. It also gets in the way of the government itself.
The Florida governor has a history of using state power to bully Florida schools over speech he doesn't like. H.B. 1 may accomplish his goal while ceding power to parents.
Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears wants state education dollars "to follow the child instead of the brick building."
"I will not appear to condone the diminishment of any group at the expense of impertinent gestures toward another group for any reason, even when the law of the land appears to require it," he wrote.
Unfortunately, it doesn't seem like the recent trend of rising administrative bloat is going to reverse anytime soon.
This was never about shielding just the youngest kids from sexual topics.
A defense of institutional neutrality.
Greetings from the second International Conspiracy Theory Symposium, where one of the most cited findings in the field has been debunked.
Public sector unions squeeze final gains out of a district that's been bleeding students yet constructing expensive new buildings for two decades.
Three years after "15 days to slow the spread," things almost look like they're back to normal. But they're not.
H.B. 4736 would punish foreigners who are, in many cases, deliberately building lives far away from their repressive countries.
"Professors are not mouthpieces for the government," says FIRE's Joe Cohn. "For decades, the Supreme Court of the United States has defended professors' academic freedom from governmental intrusion."
It may be too late for Stanford Law School, but it's not too late for other institutions of higher learning.
The bill now bans a battery of poorly-defined "Critical Theory" concepts, and prevents schools from funding programs that promote "diversity, equity, and inclusion."
While the population has grown, the number of college students has declined in the past decade.
and Educational Diversity Among Private Colleges and Universities," by Prof. James Weinstein (Arizona State).