Chicago Cuts School Police Budget by More Than Half
In other news, Chicago Public Schools will still spend $15 million on school police.
Education
Teachers Unions Try To Protect Their Monopoly as Parents Flee Traditional Schools
As families flock to virtual charter schools and "pandemic pods," California blocks the money from following the child.
UMass Democrats Bar a 31-Year-Old Progressive Gay Candidate for Dating College Students
To the extent that the accusations against Holyoke Mayor Alex Morse get into specifics, they're pretty dubious.
Fund Students Instead of Systems
Sen. Rand Paul wants to help families find a route around the public school monopoly.
Diversity Training Isn't Just Expensive, It's Counterproductive
"Well-intentioned efforts to celebrate diversity may in fact reinforce racial stereotyping," say two Carleton College faculty.
Once Marginalized, Homeschooling Hits the Mainstream
DIY approaches to education—including homeschooling, learning pods, and microschools—are gaining popularity as public schools fold under pressure.
Tulane Canceled a Talk by the Author of an Acclaimed Anti-Racism Book After Students Said the Event Was 'Violent'
In Life of a Klansman, Edward Ball reckons with a white supremacist ancestor. Try explaining that to the students.
'Cancel Culture' at U.S. Colleges Not Getting Worse, Say Liberal Professors. Conservative Colleagues Disagree.
Plus: Georgia makes it a hate crime to damage police property, SCOTUS denies relief to prisoners, Trump escalates war on Chinese apps, study casts doubt on "diversity training," coronavirus in schools, and more…
Med School Professor Removed from Fellowship Director Post, Apparently for Publishing Anti-Affirmative-Action Journal Article
This happened at University of Pittsburgh, a public university.
Trump Urges Floridians To Vote by Mail While Suing Over Remote Voting in Nevada
Plus: Tuesday primary results, TikTok may move to London, polls show growing distrust in media, and more...
First-Year International Students Will Not Be Permitted To Enter the U.S. if Their University Went Remote
Immigration and Customs Enforcement removed similar guidance for students already in the country. It will still apply to new students.
Auburn University Is Considering Unhiring a Professor for Tweeting a Swear Word
The right also has an affinity for cancel culture.
2 Pro-Democracy University Employees in Hong Kong Fired as Beijing-Imposed National Security Law Takes Effect
"Academic staff...are no longer free to make controversial statements to the general public about politically or socially controversial matters," one of them writes.
Why Pandemic Pods are 'the Ultimate In Parent-Driven Education Innovation'
With public schools largely out of commission, parents are putting together their own ad hoc schooling alternatives.
Viewpoint Diversity Gets a Boost as Families Flee Public Schools
Independent education means a wide range of approaches as to what children are taught.
Teachers Unions Want Wealth Taxes, Charter School Bans, and Medicare for All Before Schools Can Reopen
What does this have to do with safely educating kids in the midst of a pandemic? Not much.
What Cancel Culture Has In Common With Medieval Outlawry
Both outlawry and cancel culture grow out of the same human impulse toward ostracism, the desire to exclude offenders from “respectable” society.
The Media Wants To Guilt-Trip Parents Over School 'Pods'
Worried about how the latest COVID-19 workaround might exacerbate inequality? Maybe open the damned elementary schools instead.
Fordham University Disciplines Student (Austin Tong) for Political Instagram Posts
The student has now sued Fordham
Jonathan Rauch on Cancel Culture and the 'Unending Battle' for Free Speech
"The idea that wrongheaded, dangerous, heretical, and blasphemous ideas should be not only allowed but protected is preposterous," says Rauch. And yet, it's "the single most successful social principle ever invented."
New York City's Modest Reopening Marred by Arbitrary Guidelines
Phase 4 of city's reopening means loose rules for zoos but strict requirements for bars.
Private Schools Are Adapting to Lockdown Better Than the Public School Monopoly
A new survey finds parents are substantially more satisfied with private and charter schools’ responses to the pandemic than they were with those of traditional public schools.
More Mudslinging in the Debate Over School Reopening
Plus: World population could peak sooner than expected, data cast doubt on vaping and lung cancer link, massive Twitter hack had inside help, and more...
White House Backtracks on Controversial Plan To Kick Foreign Students Out of U.S.
The Department of Homeland Security announced in court that it would pull the contentious directive.
How Non-Existent Cancel Culture Works at Princeton and Elsewhere
When a university president threatens a professor with consequences for writing an article, free expression loses out.
Should Schools Be Fully Reopened in the Fall?
The Reason Roundtable weighs in on the latest coronavirus policy debate.
Families Turn to Homeschooling as the Education Establishment Fumbles Its Pandemic Response
If you can’t count on schools to perform their core educational responsibilities, why wouldn’t you look elsewhere?
After Dems Exaggerate Impact, Panicked Kids Are Suing Over Betsy DeVos Title IX Changes
Distorted partisan descriptions of the Department of Education changes could be doing real damage.
John Roberts Just Annoyed Everybody. Is He the New Anthony Kennedy?
The chief justice has managed to infuriate every major political faction.
Professor Put on Administrative Leave for Accurately Quoting Leading Campus Speech Code Case
The professor, the chair of the Central Michigan University journalism department, was teaching a media law class, and quoted a case that discussed the use of the word "nigger" at public universities.
Don't Force Schools to Reopen, but Don't Force Families To Pay for Closed Schools Either
We should fund students instead of systems.
How Migration Restrictions Undermine Meritocracy
ICE's recent decision to bar foreign students enrolled at universities with online-only classes is the tip of the iceberg of a much larger problem.
Mr. de Blasio: Open Up Those Elementary Schools!
We know now that young kids aren't particularly susceptible to catch, transmit, or suffer from Covid-19. Time to give them (and their parents) a break.
And Another N.Y. Bill Targeted at "Hate Speech" (and Advocacy of Boycotts of Friendly Countries)
This one focuses on student groups that get funding from public colleges, but it's an unconstitutional viewpoint-based restriction.
Wesley Yang: Woke Protests Against 'White Supremacism' May Be the New Normal
The Souls of Yellow Folk author says a new "elite consensus" fixated on racial outrage is forming and may destroy our ability to function.
Supreme Court's LGBT Discrimination Ruling Forces Harvard To End Ban on Single-Gender Clubs
Good news for free association at college!
