Author: JEREMIAH POFF Washington Examiner

An Illinois school choice program that serves fewer than 10,000 low-income students will sunset at the end of the year, forcing those students to leave their schools for the next school year. The Invest in Kids scholarship, which was enacted in 2017 and went into effect a year later, will cease to exist at the…

New York agreed to a court order on Wednesday that bars state officials from accessing sensitive private documents belonging to the Sisters of Life, a group of Catholic nuns that ministers to pregnant women. The court order ended a yearlong legal battle that began when the Sisters of Life sued the New York State Department…

The Vatican‘s top office for the teachings of the Catholic Church issued new guidance this week clarifying that transgender people are able to receive the sacrament of baptism, but that gay people likely cannot act as godparents. The document from the Dicastery for the Doctrine of Faith was issued as a “responsa ad dubia,” or…

The House Education and Workforce Committee advanced legislation on Wednesday that would tighten reporting requirements for colleges and universities that receive foreign donations. In a bipartisan 27-11 vote that saw three Democrats joining all present Republicans, the committee passed the “Defending Education Transparency and Ending Rogue Regimes Engaging in Nefarious Transactions Act,” which would amend…

Voters in Loudoun County, Virginia, elected an entirely new slate of school board members on Tuesday, closing the door on a tumultuous chapter for the school district that thrust the region into the national spotlight. The Tuesday election was the first since the northern Virginia county became the epicenter of the parental rights movement that…

Several colleges dealing with high rates of antisemitic activity received billions of dollars from Middle Eastern governments, a new report found. The Network Contagion Research Institute, an organization that specializes in cyber-social security threats, released a new report that linked an extensive amount of donations to U.S. higher education institutions from authoritarian foreign governments, primarily…

An agency within the Department of Homeland Security partnered with several university centers to identify online content worthy of censorship, according to a new report from the House Judiciary Committee. The report, a project of the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, detailed how the federal government formed a partnership with the…

Two years after becoming the epicenter of the parental rights movement, voters in the wealthy exurban Virginia county of Loudoun are poised to elect a new school board for the first time in four years. In 2021, Loudoun County proved to be the backdrop of Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s (R-VA) upset victory over Democratic candidate Terry…

Students in Portland Public Schools have missed three days of school as a teachers strike that began last week drags on with no end in sight. The Oregon school district canceled classes for Thursday and Friday last week after the Portland Association of Teachers authorized a strike to demand the school district provide higher wages…

The Democratic trifecta in Illinois is poised to end a small school choice program used by less than 10,000 low-income students unless legislators renew it during their veto review session next week. The Invest in Kids scholarship program was enacted in 2018 and uses tax credits to fund scholarships worth up to $75 million. The…