(The Center Square) — The Virginia Board of Education recently reviewed takeaways from 15 listening sessions it hosted as part of its “Accreditation and Accountability Redesign.” “Virginia is one of the few states that continues to combine an accreditation and accountability system,” said Todd Reid, assistant superintendent of strategic communications for the state’s Department of Education. “Combining these systems into one measurement makes it virtually impossible to really...
Knowledge of history is invaluable, and Iowa Republicans are trying to rip it away from students. The Iowa House and Senate approved a bill, House File 2545, on April 17 that would require new topics in social studies curriculums for K-12 students. The bill, which is now part of a larger bill, is headed to
While the Governor downplayed the resignation of nearly a dozen experts he had convened to decentralize and depoliticize the agency, the federal government asked him to put the community’s needs at the forefront of the initiative and ensure the right voices are seated at the table.
The Biden administration is touting the rule as the “most comprehensive coverage” students will receive in the nearly half-century of Title IX.
President Joe Biden sees himself as a human rights president, but his legacy is the opposite. Whether through negligence or a desire to prioritize friends over fact, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and national security adviser Jake Sullivan increasingly turn a blind eye if not endorse human rights fraud. Many human rights and conflict resolution […]
Nestlé has been criticized for adding sugar and honey to infant milk and cereal products sold in many poorer countries. The Swiss food giant controls 20% of the baby-food market, valued at nearly US$70 billion.
The following is part of a series about how the State Department age determinations for a special immigrant visa applicant’s son put him in needless peril for six years. In 2018, a U.S. consular officer told special immigrant visa applicant Wali Akrami that he would have to leave his adult son Waheed in Afghanistan if […]
Education Secretary Miguel Cardona on Tuesday said his department has opened an investigation into Columbia University for potential violations of civil rights laws amid pro-Palestinian protests and danger to Jewish students.
Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders tells CNN’s Dana Bash that “antisemitism is a disgusting and vile form of bigotry” that should be condemned.
The following concludes a series about how State Department age determinations put special immigrant visa applicant Wali Akrami’s son Waheed in needless peril for six years. Afghan refugee Waheed Akrami arrived in Rochester, New York, this month on humanitarian parole after an apparent State Department blunder separated him from his family for six long years. In 2018, […]
The DOJ settlement goes to 139 victims of Larry Nassar, the disgraced team doctor of USA Gymnastics who sexually assaulted elite and Olympic gymnasts, after the FBI failed to promptly investigate.
Department of Education Secretary Miguel Cardona vowed to shut down Arizona’s Grand Canyon University—the largest Christian college in the nation—because he deems it "a predatory for-profit school," but Arizona state Superintendent Tom Horne thinks they’re going too far. He called the threat just "