In what may be a first even during a bully-crazed administration, a principal known as an effective disciplinarian at a notoriously violent inner city public school may get fired because some accuse her of being a bully. The story comes out of northern California where teachers at one of the area’s toughest middle schools assert

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On the heels of a similar move by a medium-sized city, Florida has set different achievement targets for public school students based on race and ethnicity with lower goals for blacks and Hispanics and higher ones for whites and Asians. Just a few weeks ago the District of Columbia announced a similar plan that also

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In a first for any American public school system, education officials in the District of Columbia have set new achievement targets for students based on race and income with lower goals for black, Hispanic and poor kids and higher ones for whites and Asians. Washington D.C. officials are simply following a national trend implemented by

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On the heels of sparing nearly 1 million young illegal immigrants from deportation, the Obama Administration is doling out nearly $6 million to cover the education costs of “migrant students” or the children of “seasonal farm workers” in the United States.    It’s almost as if the president is on a mission to stick American

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Students can sue their public school district for violating their First Amendment right by eliminating a radical La Raza studies program that ignites racial hostility, teaches disdain for American sovereignty and illegally segregates students by race. Only in America would a federal judge rule that a U.S. taxpayer-funded institution can get sued for refusing to

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To “reduce racial isolation among students,” the Obama Administration has issued official guidelines to promote diversity in the nation’s public education system by, among other things, blending the rich with the poor. A district with two elementary schools—one with a large enrollment of students from households with “higher than average annual incomes” and the other

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A public school district in the U.S. must pay a Muslim teacher tens of thousands of dollars and establish a religious accommodation training program for refusing to let the instructor take three weeks off to make a pilgrimage to Mecca. The settlement marks the conclusion of the first lawsuit filed by Obama’s Department of Justice

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On a mission to narrow the academic achievement gap between minorities and whites, the Obama Administration has ordered the nation’s second-largest public school district to cut back on disciplining black students and develop a special curriculum for those who don’t speak English.The orders come on the heels of a 19-month federal “civil rights investigation” that

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In a deplorable waste of taxpayer dollars, a hip-hop themed public high school that has taken more than two years and half a million dollars to plan will never open its doors in Oregon.It’s bad enough that Portland education officials approved the failed project in the first place. Many admitted having “lingering concerns about the school’s

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A new law forcing public schools to develop a curriculum that portrays minority figures—including gay, bisexual and transgender—positively and forbids all negative depictions is being challenged in California, where state law allows citizens to achieve a sort of people’s veto.The measure (SB 48) was passed last month and requires that social studies instruction include the

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