Author: Jeremiah Poff

The top California education official was booted from a Southern California school board meeting right before the school board voted to require school staff to inform parents if their child identifies as transgender. Tony Thurmond, the state superintendent of public instruction, arrived at the school board meeting for Chino Valley Unified School District in Southern…

EXCLUSIVE — A senior official in the Biden White House asked the Department of Homeland Security to share any department programs that could contribute to the administration’s response to a letter from the National School Boards Association about threats against school board members, according to internal emails. The emails, which show communications between National Security…

The dean of diversity, equity, and inclusion at Stanford Law School has resigned her position, four months after she shouted down a federal judge who was giving a lecture, the law school announced Thursday. In an email to the entire Stanford Law School community, Dean Jenny Martinez said Tirien Steinbach, the dean of diversity, equity,…

The Board of Education for the state of Florida approved a set of new curriculum standards for African American history as the state continues to be the epicenter of a nationwide debate over how to teach issues of race in the classroom. The new standards require lessons on the cultural contributions of African Americans, the…

The liberal faculty members of the New College of Florida are reportedly in a hurry to leave the school and find new jobs after Gov. Ron DeSantis‘s (R-FL) takeover. As much as one-third of the school’s faculty are leaving their jobs at the Florida college as a new crop of conservative trustees appointed by DeSantis…

Wesleyan University, a Connecticut-based liberal arts college, announced Wednesday that it will no longer consider an applicant’s family history at the school when making admissions decisions, a practice known as legacy admissions. In a statement to the university community, Wesleyan president Michael Roth said the school would be eliminating legacy admissions in light of the…

Stanford University President Marc Tessier-Lavigne announced Wednesday that he is resigning from his position atop the prestigious California university at the end of August. The announcement caps a seven-year tenure that has seen Stanford become a flashpoint of national controversy in recent years, in part because Tessier-Lavigne has faced allegations that he supervised falsified research…

The Virginia Department of Education honored parental rights in new model policies on how schools should respond to children who claim to identify as transgender. The new policies, which must be adopted by all of Virginia’s public school districts, prohibit schools and school staff from accommodating a student’s request to use a different name or…

On Aug. 8, voters in Ohio will head to the polls for an unusually timed constitutional amendment ballot referendum that, if passed, will require that all future amendments to the state constitution reach a 60% threshold in a statewide vote. The timing of the referendum, in August rather than the November general election, has launched…

The Biden administration’s regulatory changes to the Income Driven Repayment program for student loans are expected to cost taxpayers nearly $500 billion over a decade, according to a new report. The report from the Penn Wharton School of Business said the changes to the program, which allows borrowers to make payments on their student loans…