For the first time since 2019, there’s a conservative on the Houston school board. In fact, there’s now two conservatives on the nine-member board.
Houston ISD is the largest school district in the state and one of the largest in the country. The election shows once again how frustrated voters are with mask mandates and Critical Race Theory, and how that will surely have a ripple effect on the upcoming midterm elections.
Oppose a bill to increase school spending and you are said to be robbing children of the resources they need to succeed in the classroom. But what if more money wasn’t actually the solution to America’s public education system? Recently Dan Mitchell created a graph on public school spending that tells an interesting story. While…
Nevada educators falsely deny that CRT is being deployed in local schools Has your child’s school district said Critical Race Theory is not being taught? Ron Knecht argues that just because CRT is not an official part of the curriculum does not mean that it is not being taught in your child’s classroom. Read the…
What are kids actually learning in school? One California teacher couldn’t understand why the majority of her students were failing their ethics class. When she decided to dig deeper into what she was being taught, she was shocked by what she found. When she discovered Critical Race Theory throughout the course curriculum, Kali knew she…
Our current education system was created when life looked a lot different than it does now. Children were being prepared for a life of factory work, not a life of creativity and innovation. In his latest article for FEE, Paul Boyce points out the numerous ways that the education system is no longer serving our…
The American Rescue Plan (or the COVID stimulus package) awarded over $1 billion to Nevada education. Do you know the DOE’s plan on how they’re going to use the money? Thankfully the plan for the state DOE and individual school districts You can view the state’s plan for using the money here. Individual school districts’s…
Nearly 60 percent of voters in Elko County voted against the school board’s bond proposal. The school board had proposed taking out $150 million in general obligation bonds, and obviously the public did not agree with that proposal. Voters in opposition to the bond proposal argued that the school board needs a greater level of…
