Activists demand Black English be pushed on kids in California preschools

Activists Want Kids to Learn Black English in California Preschools

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Before Brown v. Board, another segregation case changed public schools. That fight isn’t over.

To understand why five California families took their fight against segregated schools to court in the 1940s, picture the buildings reserved for their children’s learning. At that time in rural Orange County, just south of Los Angeles, school officials ordered Mexican-American children into environments that weren’t designed for education. Their studies took place in converted []

The Systemic Racism of California's Public Schools

The Systemic Racism of California's Public Schools

Before Brown v. Board, Another Segregation Case Changed Public Schools

This story was originally reported by Nadra Nittle of The 19th. Meet Nadra and read more of their reporting on gender, politics and policy. To understand why five California families took their fight against segregated schools to court in the 1940s, picture the buildings reserved for their children’s learning. At that time in rural Orange []

Woke NYC School Under Fire After Students Stage Anti-Police Performance

What was supposed to be a celebration of culture quickly became something far more controversial. Parents and law enforcement advocates are demanding answers after fifth graders appeared to reenact police shootings and display political messages during a New York City school event.

Calif. to recruit high school students to become bilingual teachers

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California law that forbids ‘forced outing’ of trans students blocked by 9th Circuit

California’s effort to shield the decisions of transgender students in public schools from the eyes of prying parents remains on hold this week after the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals found a state law designed to protect them was likely unconstitutional. The U.S. Supreme Court previously upheld a temporary block on the law after []

Supreme Court to review parents’ challenge to law regarding notification of gender transitions

The parents argue that their right to direct the upbringing of their children is in jeopardy. The state continues to defend the law. [...]

California high school battles Newsom’s law ordering it to change ‘Indians’ mascot

A high school in Northern California is pushing back on Gov. Gavin Newsom’s latest law that forced it to remove its “Indians” mascot on Wednesday. In 2024, Newsom signed into law an extension of the California Racial Mascot Act, which prohibits public schools from using “any derogatory Native American term, as defined, as a school []...Click to read more

Madness: California Is Recruiting Noncitizen Teens As Election Workers

Madness: California Is Recruiting Noncitizen Teens As Election Workers

English kindergartens to face up to 3 million won fine for level tests

English-language kindergartens and other private education providers for preschoolers will be barred from using tests or evaluations for admissions or class placement starting Oct. 1, the Education Ministry said Tuesday. The ministry announced a proposed enforcement decree for the revised Act on the Establishment and Operation of Private Teaching Institutes and Extracurricular Lessons, specifying what will be banned under the new rules. The ban covers written, oral, interview and practical tests

家长与校方支持恢复体罚 强调须设严格规范

随着国会近期掀起恢复学校体罚的讨论部分家长与校方代表公开表示支持但强调必须在严格规范下执行确保学生身心健康不受伤害 根据The Vibes报道两名小学生的父亲诺阿兹里指出当今教育体系在管控学生纪律方面面临“严峻挑战”包括逃学不尊重师长甚至霸凌等问题日益严重

Democrats aim to kill school choice from Wisconsin to the rest of the US

Wisconsin Democrats Francesca Hong and Mandela Barnes pledge to abolish school choice, while Law Forward files suit against the state's voucher programs.

Parents outraged over California’s absurd new all-gender bathroom rule for schools

California Post Deputy Editor-in-Chief Barclay Crawford discusses a new statewide mandate in California which would require schools to offer students access to at least one all-gender bathroom. “Normal, mild-mannered parents are absolutely outraged that this has happened,” he told Sky News host James Morrow. “The fact that we would bring this ideology in at such a young age and just cause yet another difficulty for children who are just trying to grow up.”

Radical Bill Will Make It Easier For ‘Trans’ Kids To Cut Legal Ties With Parents

Advocacy groups are warning that a radical new bill could make it easier for gender-confused children to legally cut parents out of their lives. The California proposal, AB 1967, would allow minors to initiate legal emancipation from their parents while living in residential facilities like drug rehabilitation programs, youth shelters, and private alternative boarding schools. The ...

Asian Parents Ask Court to Revisit Montgomery County ‘Racial Balancing’

By Sean Salai (The Washington Times) Asian parents in Montgomery County are asking the Supreme Court to hear their argument that the public schools sy...

Court strips away California protections for transgender students’ privacy

California officials may not enforce key provisions of a law protecting transgender students from forced outing against the parents challenging it while their lawsuit proceeds, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday.

Community rallies to support seven children and their mother after devastating fire in Reservoir Hills

Community rallies to support seven children and their mother after devastating fire in Reservoir Hills

UN rights office calls racist remarks against Mbappe 'despicable' yet not isolated

Spokesperson says public officials have heightened responsibility to reject racism, hate speech

Ninth Circuit Is Latest Court to Block California Gender-Secrecy Law

Relying on the Supreme Court’s recent Mirabelli ruling, the appeals court blocked key parts of AB 1955 and reaffirmed that fit parents cannot be shut out of decisions involving their child’s mental health. UPDATE: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has issued a preliminary injunction against some sections of California’s SAFETY Act, which prohibited schools []

Free speech lawsuit accuses University of California system of forcing students to use ‘preferred pronouns’

The lawsuit was filed by Defending Education.

Unions’ sneaky attack on Wisconsin vouchers just blew up in their faces

Progressives have been relentless in their assault on successful school choice programs this year, recently targeting Wisconsin’s popular programs. Fortunately, the litigation attack against Wisconsin’s voucher programs has just been defanged, though certainly the political offensive continues. Wisconsin teachers’ unions and their allies recently filed a lawsuit claiming the Wisconsin legislature has failed to provide []

The Supreme Court Just Told California: Parents Have Rights. Deal With It.

Yesterday in Mirabelli v. Bonta, the Supreme Court put on hold California’s law requiring public schools to secretly transition children without their parents’ knowledge. The state had adopted policies directing public schools to socially transition children to a different gender identity—using different names and pronouns—without ever telling their parents. Not only were mom and dad kept []READ MORE

The Israeli Spy Behind PragerU’s Plan to Rewrite American Education To Indoctrinate Children

Alan Macleod MintPress News PragerU is trying to take over American schools. The right-wing, pseudo-educational group is now an official educational partner in at least ten states, and blitzes children with highly questionable messaging on race, history, and politics. Even more concerning, PragerU is led by former Israeli spy, Marissa Streit, who has stated she []

Advocacy Group Demands ABA Stop Forcing ‘Ideological’ Bias Training On Law Students

The national advocacy organization Defending Education filed a formal public comment Monday with the American Bar Association, throwing its weight behind a proposal to eliminate a controversial law school curriculum requirement known as Standard 303(c). The current standard forces all ABA-accredited law schools to provide student instruction on bias, cross-cultural competency, and racism at least [] Advocacy Group Demands ABA Stop Forcing ‘Ideological’ Bias Training On Law Students

Once designed to strip Native students of culture, this school now safeguards it

For more than a century, federal boarding schools worked to forcibly assimilate Native American children into white culture. Here's how one Santa Fe school has worked to change that legacy.

Poverty, discrimination keep San children out of school

San communities say poverty, discrimination, teenage pregnancy, and a lack of access to quality education continue to rob many children of their right to education. This traps generations in a cycle of marginalisation, says Maria Garises, an Omaheke San community member. These concerns were raised during the launch of the San Children Embrace Education Project [] The post Poverty, discrimination keep San children out of school appeared first on The Namibian.

Appeals Court Slams Door on Florida 'Stop Woke' Law

Florida's anti-woke law restricting how lessons on race and gender can be taught in colleges and universities -- policies championed by Gov. Ron DeSantis -- violates the free speech rights of professors, a panel of appeals court judges ruled Tuesday.

Anti-School Choice Forces Sue to Block Ballot Measure

Anti-School Choice Forces Sue to Block Ballot Measure

Colorado Clergy Rally in Defense of Democracy and Voting Rights

Earlier today, five speakers from the Colorado Clergy Alliance gathered outside the State Capitol with a crowd of 50 supporters, representing Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Jewish, and Unitarian faith communities. The rally sought to “decry the federal government’s attempts to interfere with election administration and to remove voting rights from eligible voters, because the right to vote and freely elect our leaders is the most foundational democratic right that we have locally here in Colorado,” according to Rev. Dr. Jenny Whitcher, the co-founder and co-leader of the Colorado Clergy Alliance.

Transgender athletes still protected in California, Supreme Court rules

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. California can continue its long-held policy of allowing transgender student athletes to play on girls’ and women’s sports teams, under a U.S. Supreme Court ruling issued Tuesday. “With this ruling, schools and states like California can continue to adopt inclusive policies that ensure []

The divided Supreme Court’s birthright citizenship decision exposes sharp rifts among justices

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court’s divided ruling that children born in the U.S. are citizens under the Fourteenth Amendment — even if their parents are in the country unlawfully or only temporarily — exposed deep fissures in the justices’ views on the issue and toward each other. The court’s two Black justices notably [] The post The divided Supreme Court’s birthright citizenship decision exposes sharp rifts among justices appeared first on Loonie Politics.

Parent Alert: Big Win for Parental Rights!

School’s out, and parents win! Jill Simonian of PragerU Kids shares the latest court victory for parental rights across America. Meanwhile, a Massachusetts middle school apologizes to students for teaching about the Holocaust. Get informed and get active. Explore More: PragerU Kids' America’s Favorite Music Show (PreK–2nd Grade) PragerU’s Celebrate America at 250 (K–12th Grade)

Anti-LGBTQ+ Hate Group Super Jazzed For Texas To Force Christianity On Children, Just Like Jesus Did

Or did he?

Elimination of single-family zoning move closer in Oak Park – Wednesday Journal of Oak Park and River Forest

Village board member Cory Wesley, perhaps the most outspoken proponent of eliminating single family zoning districts in Oak Park, says single family zoning is racist in origin and limits affordability and socio-economic diversity: “It was implemented to keep Black people out of various different areas, Oak Park being one of them. It is not unique to Oak Park, this is prevalent across the entire country.”