Back to School, Questions to Ponder
By Jeff Keaton
Back to school rituals will take place all across our country over the next few weeks. Billions of dollars will be spent on school supplies, clothes, and textbooks. Parents will hope this is the year little Johnny will finally begin to fulfil his potential rather than see school as an opportunity to annoy every cute little girl he comes in contact with. There is just something positive and hopeful about attending school and starting a new year.
Public Schools Visiting the Ark Encounter?
By Mark Looy
The atheists are on the rampage again, and this time their target is our just-opened Ark Encounter in Northern Kentucky. As the Ark grows in popularity, the attacks will only intensify.
California Wants to Remove Judeo-Christian Contribution From History Texts
By Kiley Crossland World
A group of California educators, school board members, and university professors is pushing back on proposed state-wide curriculum revisions they say introduce “historical inaccuracies, censorship, and bias.”
ALEC, ISTA and Indiana
By Larry Sand
The teachers unions continue to pound the anti-ALEC drum, this year in the Hoosier State.
The American Legislative Exchange Council is an organization of state legislators, business leaders and other concerned Americans dedicated to the principles of limited government, free markets and federalism. In the education sphere, ALEC holds that parents should be in charge of their children’s education by allowing them to have choices – charter schools, voucher programs, tax credit scholarships, education savings accounts, etc. – that would “allow each child the opportunity to reach his or her potential.” Furthermore, ALEC believes that workers should not be subjected to forced unionism.
Supreme Court Blocks Transgender Bathroom Ruling
By Liberty Counsel
Today the U.S. Supreme Court in a 5-3 ruling blocked the federal court of appeals decision on the so-called transgender bathroom decision. In G.G. v. Gloucester County School Board, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the federal law known as Title IX should be interpreted to include “gender identity” and thus that court ruled that a girl who wants to identify as a boy should be able to use the boy’s restroom.
Satanist Group Has No Right to Disrupt School
By Liberty Counsel
An atheist group masquerading as a so-called Satanic Temple recently made news when it stated it planned to petition school officials to allow its purported club on campus after school beginning with this upcoming academic year. The group states it intends to target the schools in districts where Good News Clubs meet after school. Good News Clubs, which are sponsored by Child Evangelism Fellowship (CEF), require parental permission for children to attend.