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Biden admin education panel stacked with critical race theory-supporting activists, GOP senators say
Special: A team of Senate Republicans led by Sen. Monthly bill Cassidy is urgent Education and learning Secretary Miguel Cardona in excess of a panel in his section they say is stacked with liberal activists who support challenges like vital race concept and gun control. “Through the COVID-19 pandemic, it turned obvious that facilitating the partnership in between universities and mom and dad is most effectively chartered at the area amount,” the Cassidy, R-La., letter to Cardona claimed. “For that reason I welcome the said goal of this council nonetheless, it is troubling that you look to have forgotten to incorporate any precise households or regional officials on it.” “Rather,…
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Fairfax Co. schools failed to offer sufficient education to thousands with disabilities during pandemic, federal investigation finds
Virginia’s biggest university technique unsuccessful to offer a adequate schooling to countless numbers of students with disabilities through the coronavirus pandemic, in accordance to a federal investigation into its programming. Virginia’s biggest school technique failed to give a enough training to countless numbers of learners with disabilities all through the coronavirus pandemic, a federal investigation into its programing uncovered. The faculty procedure will carry out a evaluate of which pupils with disabilities did not obtain sufficient instruction, and appoint an administrator to oversee these endeavours, the U.S. Division of Education’s Office of Civil Rights said. The investigation found Fairfax County Public Educational institutions unsuccessful to offer thousands of youngsters with…
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The Decline of Higher Education
In the nineteen fifties and nineteen sixties, educational-liberty disputes routinely took a certain shape. In a compact city, someplace in the heartland, there would be a faculty campus on which a young tutorial loudly voiced his opinions on controversial matters—mostly political, but occasionally also on sexual morality, or even on legalizing prescription drugs. This would offend the sensitivities of some neighborhood townspeople. Someone like the neighborhood mayor would lean on the faculty president (likely a personal buddy), the president would then lean on the office chair, and the young professor was soon gone. The American Association of College Professors would then intervene, and the personal would be reinstated, mainly because…
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Letters to the Editor – Austin, education, trees, drag shows, mental illness, Club Q
My Xmas want Re: “Efforts concentrate on metropolis of Austin — Frisco Republican information laws to change funds with a ‘district’, ” Nov. 21 Metro tale. Your tale identified as the submitted legislation a ”long shot.” Have you not study some of the legislation handed in the course of last session? It no lengthier surprises me that legislators file costs that are in no way advantageous to the citizens of this condition. Instead they waste the valuable time of a component-time legislative system to market legislation that does tiny but generate dissension amid the members and public. Why not concentrate on difficulties that advantage the citizens, like a preset grid…
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Taliban escalates fight over girls’ education in Afghanistan
BAMIAN, Afghanistan — When Zahra Wafa thinks about what it took to put her daughters through school, her face hardens. She remembers the days she and her husband ate only bread to afford their children’s education, how it had all seemed worth it to give them a chance at a future beyond Nawa Foladi, a village in central Afghanistan with a single dirt track, hand-pumped wells and no electricity. Then Wafa remembers the new reality under the Taliban, and her voice falters at the thought that it might all have been for nothing. Zahra Wafa, center, leads her daughters with chores at their home in Nawa Foladi, a village near Bamian,…
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South Dakota Board of Education Standards hosting Sioux Falls meeting
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — Debate around the proposed social studies standards continued Monday in Sioux Falls. The South Dakota Board of Education Standards hosted its second of four statewide meetings on the proposed standards at 9 a.m. at the Sioux Falls Convention Center. A total of up to 90 minutes will be allowed for proponent and opponent testimony. More than 200 people attended the hearing and those against the new standards far outnumbered supporters. Members of the board are: Becky Guffin, Phyllis Heineman, Rich Meyer, Terry Nebelsick, Linda Olsen, Julie Westra and Steve Willard. All members were present in Sioux Falls. Nebelsick was elected the new president of the board…