Author: Jeremiah Poff

A coalition of public school advocates and prominent national atheist groups sued Oklahoma on Monday, seeking to block the creation of a public charter school affiliated with the Catholic Church. In a lawsuit filed in Oklahoma state court Monday, a group of Oklahoma public school advocates led by the Oklahoma Parent Legislative Action Committee and…

EXCLUSIVE — The staff in the rehabilitation services department of Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center are required to undergo diversity, equity, and inclusion training, according to internal documents obtained by a medical watchdog group. According to an internal memo, the university medical center is requiring all staff in the rehabilitative services department to attend…

A hazing scandal in the Northwestern University athletics department that has already cost two coaches their jobs is no closer to subsiding as lawsuits against the Chicago area university are beginning to pile up. On July 10, Northwestern fired longtime head football coach Pat Fitzgerald amid revelations that he had overseen a culture that allowed…

EXCLUSIVE — Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) called for Education Secretary Miguel Cardona to order a Department of Education investigation into the Chinese Communist Party’s influence on the nation’s K-12 schools following a new report. In a letter to Cardona on Wednesday, Banks, citing a report from the parent activist group Parents Defending Education, said the…

The Department of Education has launched a federal civil rights investigation into Harvard University over its legacy admissions practices, weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against Harvard and barred the consideration of race in college admissions. A spokesperson for the Department of Education confirmed to the Washington Examiner on Tuesday that the department had…

The Biden administration announced Tuesday the cancellation of $130 million in federal student loans for 7,400 students who attended a Colorado-based college that has since permanently closed. The latest debt cancellation, which comes amid a larger push by the administration to find ways to cancel student loans, applies only to borrowers who attended the Colorado…

Former San Francisco district attorney Chesa Boudin is earning $210,000 a year to run a legal clinic at the University of California, Berkeley. Boudin, who was one of many liberal prosecutors across the country who received support from billionaire megadonor George Soros, was recalled from office last year amid an increase in crime in San…

A new poll from the state of Ohio shows a majority of Ohioans support a proposed state constitutional amendment to ensure abortion is legal but not enough to overcome a possible supermajority requirement. The poll from USA Today indicated that 58% of Ohio voters support a proposed constitutional amendment that would prohibit the state from…

A year of turmoil at Stanford University came to a head this week as the university president, Marc Tessier-Lavigne, tendered his resignation, and the law school’s controversial diversity dean Tirien Steinbach also resigned. The resignations capped a tumultuous year for the California university that is widely recognized as among the nation’s most prestigious institutions. From…

Ivy League students are identifying as LGBT at a significantly higher rate than the rest of the population, a new analysis of recent polls shows. According to a recent Gallup poll, 7.2% of the U.S. adult population identified as “something other than heterosexual,” a significant increase from 3.5% a decade ago. But Ivy League schools…