Supreme Court Says High School Coach's Postgame Prayers Are Protected Free Speech
A 6–3 majority sees it as noncoercive and not a violation of the Establishment Clause.
A 6–3 majority sees it as noncoercive and not a violation of the Establishment Clause.
So holds a federal district court, in a dispute arising from the school policy wars.
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Under Biden, Trump, and Obama, government federal spending almost doubled.
Politicians respond to often unfounded fears with aggressive laws that interfere with individual and family choices.
While that impulse is understandable, it can lead to policies that do more harm than good.
Charter schools are included in the mandate that students use facilities of their birth sex, regardless of what students and families might want.
Don't conflate mass shootings with school shootings.
Making schools more like prisons would not appreciably decrease violence.
There's much we don't know about the shooting in Texas that left at least 21 people dead, including 19 children. Nevertheless, Joe Biden knows exactly who to blame and how to stop future shootings.
There is seldom any meaningful accountability for government incompetence.
It's not supporting “parents’ rights” to censor topics at private schools that families decide to send their children to.
"People's irrational fears are taking over these policy decisions," says one parent.
The vague wording of the bill has led to a culture war fight about what the text means, and that’s never good for the First Amendment.
It’s about a lot more than transgender girls’ participation in sports under Title IX, but expect that controversy to dominate the discussion.
School enrollment based solely on geography must come to an end.
Both argue that the bills open the state up to costly lawsuits for very little, if any, gain.
Police are being asked to handle kids broken by failures of public schooling.
The students say they were forced to attend an evangelical religious service.
A new bill would alter state law to remove an educational exception for disseminating works the community deems "harmful" to minors.
Attendees at Biden's State of the Union speech were almost entirely unmasked.
The agency emphasizes that children face a very low risk from COVID-19, which it has known all along.
Problems with the legislation remain, including vague prohibitions that will likely bury schools in lawsuits.
From the CDC to the FDA, there are too many missteps to list.
Prosecutor says no criminal charges will be filed, because the girls could leave their undergarments on.
Walensky acknowledged "limitations" of available studies but told a congressional committee "our guidance currently is that masking should happen in all schools."
"If this study doesn't put the nail in the coffin of academic training to little children, it's hard to imagine what will," says psychologist Peter Gray.
Frustrated parents had their revenge against Gabriela Lopez, Alison Collins and Faauuga Moliga.
"Progressive" school COVID policies no longer welcome in the capital of progressivism
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