Chicago Public Schools (CPS) reopened on Monday for the first time since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) has argued for months that it is unsafe to go into the schools even though the Chicago Department of Public Health’s COVID bureau supports the CPS reopening plan.
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Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said in a recent interview that the Democrats use the education system to brainwash the next generation.
When we see classical literature removed from curricula and teachers making crazy race-based demands, it’s hard to disagree.
The left’s efforts to tear down the past may have started with the toppling of historical statues, but it is now working its way into other areas such as literature and education.
A teacher in Lawrence, Massachusetts, recently claimed on Twitter that Homer’s Odyssey had been removed from the curriculum.
Consider this a preview of where a Biden administration would take American education. Expect more critical race theory in public schools.
The Washington Free Beacon reports:
Future Biden Education Secretary Oversaw Creation of Critical Theory Class for High Schoolers
Joe Biden’s likely pick for education secretary helped create a mandated, statewide minority-studies course that...
I came across this New York Post article about 12,000 kids not allowed to return to school after the Christmas holidays over lack of COVID-19 consent forms. Interest piqued because government sucks.
It turns out Mayor Bill de Blasio required a consent form to test your child for COVID without a parent...
Last week, during an online address that had to do primarily with education, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said frankly, “Our mission is to redistribute wealth.”
Apparently, the exodus of taxpayers from Manhattan is not happening quickly enough for the mayor, and he wanted to speed it along.
Joe Biden picked Connecticut Education Commissioner Miguel Cardona as his Education secretary.
The U.S. Military Academy at West Point accused over 70 cadets of cheating on a math exam, making it the school’s worst academic scandal in 45 years.
A special education teacher from Pennsylvania named Ashley Bennett says she was forced to resign after merely sharing a comment that was critical of the Black Lives Matter protests over the summer.
Bennett’s story is just getting some notice now and she appeared on the Tucker Carlson show with her lawyer...
I tried hard to word a decent headline but the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) makes it impossible.
The teachers will not return to the classroom with the students in January. So the cash-strapped city will hire supervisors to be in classes and at the school with the students.
This is because the Chicago...
A schoolteacher in Bend, Oregon, has been placed on paid leave after she berated lockdown protesters in a profanity-laced rant that was caught on camera.
People on the left are having a curious reaction to people who object to continued, business-destroying lockdowns.
The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) already proved they don’t care about kids because reopening the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) is based on “sexism, racism, and misogyny.”
The CTU filed an injunction, asking “the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board to halt the return to in-person learning until terms can be ‘determined by good-faith...
The Chicago Teachers Union proved to people once again that they do not care about kids.
They only care about “social justice.”
The progressive concept of “diversity, equity, and inclusion'” is newspeak for enforcing progressive political values and not including anyone who disagrees.
This is becoming an industry within education and is increasingly funded with tax dollars.
Science has shown us for a while that schools are pretty safe from COVID-19 spreads. That didn’t stop New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio from shutting down the schools due to a spike in cases in the city.
Parents got ticked and *now* de Blasio acknowledges the science the Democrats supposedly...
This will probably not come as much of a surprise to Legal Insurrection readers. When you have so many people in education who seem to be supporters of socialism and even communism, it tends to have an effect.
The Washington Free Beacon reports:
State Department Says Anti-American Educators Undermine U.S. Efforts to...
Former FOX News host Megyn Kelly recently revealed on her podcast that she has pulled two of her children out of their private New York City school over what she sees as political propaganda. She even says she is leaving the city.
The document she describes, and claims was circulated to parents...
