Education
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Puerto Rico, facing default, wastes time on unconstitutional workplace bullying bill
Puerto Rico’s economy has been in recession for years, and its public utilities are on the verge of defaulting on…
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Mark Zuckerberg, rich Obama pals request billions for wi-fi in schools, libraries
A group of tech leaders are urging the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to spend billions expanding access to wireless Internet…
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Common Core opponents may soon have their own ballot line
Opponents of the Common Core Curriculum Standards are putting forth an effort to create a statewide ballot line in New…
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Court strikes down cyberbullying law; N.Y. workplace bullying bill also has constitutional flaws
A law firm notes that “since 2003, twenty-one states have introduced legislation to combat private workplace bullying but none have been…
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Michigan minimum wage hike reduces student employment opportunities
Michigan’s new minimum wage is expected to have a negative effect on student employment, according to several state universities. So…
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Obama drives up college tuition through perverse Pay As You Earn program
Wastefully-run colleges can now increase tuition even faster, at taxpayer expense, as a result of the Obama administration’s recent expansions…
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FIRE announces all-out war on campus speech codes
FIRE, an acronym for the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, is one of the nation’s leading campus free speech…
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Kindergartner pulls down pants on playground, accused of sexual misconduct
We live in an age sadly when 8-year-olds are capable of committing rape, so maybe a school in Surprise, Ariz. that…
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Gay advocacy group urges government to relax school internet filters
An advocacy group is calling for the federal government to loosen Internet filters in schools as a way to assist…
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Liberal protesters descend on Gates Foundation
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation may have to be wary. Badasses are gunning for them. Bearing signs with slogans…
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Senator McCaskill and Obama administration bureaucrats: Most Americans are rapists
Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO) believes that sex should be considered rape unless the consent to it was “explicit”: “Unless there is explicit consent, it’s rape…
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Gay, white, American Indian professor sues historically black college for discrimination
When worlds collide, what’s a poor liberal to do? Usually, it’s pretty easy to separate out the good guys from…
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12-year-old sleeps over at friend’s house, returns home next morning with ‘bitch’ tattoo
It’s been well established that children are no longer safe at school — not because of misguided peers but because…
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Nonnewaug High School accused of censoring conservative websites *UPDATE*
While researching the arguments for a gun control debate, 18 year-old Andrew Lampart, a senior at Nonnewaug High School in Connecticut,…
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8-year-old expelled from school for making gun out of rolled-up paper
Say the word gun. On second, don’t say it! Don’t even think it. If you do, your kid might get thrown out of school. Yes,…
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Parents of first-grader warned by teacher that child took part in ‘dangerous chasing game’
At this point, it would be easier for school administrators to make a list of leisure-time activities children are allowed…
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How disparate impact law can lead to veiled racial quotas
We wrote earlier about the Obama administration’s use of disparate-impact theory to pressure some school districts into adopting veiled racial…
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Obama claims ‘world is less violent than it has ever been’
Greetings from the Bizarro World. Barack Obama, the social media president, took questions from Tumblr users at the White House yesterday,…
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Islamic school cries Islamophobia: Textbook praises Muslim who ‘loved death more than life’
“Many Muslims will feel alienated and victims of state Islamaphobia…” With the Muslim population of the United Kingdom growing by…
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Obama talks about education and his own ‘misspent youth’
President Obama discussed education reform in a Tumblr broadcast Tuesday, talking up his plan for student loans debt. Obama talked…
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Picture of the Day: ‘This is they’re [sic] story’
Need evidence that there is trouble in the Windy City? The premise of that question can be borne out in many…
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Bill Gates, Common Core, and the real problem with money in politics
Dark money versus money invisible in plain sight.
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Sex education: School asks eighth graders ‘how far’ they would go sexually
As a part of a sex education class, eighth graders at Woodland Park Middle School in San Marcos, California were asked to…
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‘Evil’ Koch brothers support United Negro College Fund: Harry Reid silent
Charles and David Koch have made a big $25 million donation to the United Negro College Fund (UNCF),the organization announced Friday.…
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Teen who clocked another student after queefing during bus sex cops plea
A female teen who earned the unflattering nickname “Teen LaQueefa” after expelling wind from her vulva while having sex on a school…
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University presidents don’t want students with guns on campus … or anywhere else
University presidents overwhelmingly oppose letting students carry concealed guns on their campuses — and don’t really want people carrying them…
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Video: A Common Core-style ‘trick’ for multiplying numbers
This may or may not be Common Core-aligned, though the technique fits right in with some of the CC methods…
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Arizona ditches Common Core Testing consortium
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer announced Friday that her state is pulling out of a multi-state consortium that is designing a…
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Charge of racism: Group demands fraternity change name, cancel ‘Islander’ fundraiser
Despite a noticeable lack of white males, accusations of white male hegemony fly… The Iota Chi chapter of the Phi Gamma Delta…
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Teacher accused of ‘intentionally’ exposing 16-year-old student to AIDS virus
Louisiana High school teacher Derrick Nesby, 37, was already in hot water for having sex with a 16-year-old student. Today,…
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‘Incendiary’ questions on Chicago standardized test pulled after complaints of political bias
Two popular liberal pastimes — claiming falsely to have been the victim of bigotry and poisoning the minds of the…
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Which unlikely commencement speaker ripped academia for liberal intolerance
I’ll give you a hint. He’s a white male. That much is clear from the accompanying photo. He considers himself…
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Students opting out of Common Core having a serious impact in New York
For those under the impression that opting out of Common Core testing couldn’t possibly have an effect on the program,…
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