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New York City Public Schools Overrun With Violence Due To Mayor Slashing Funds For Safety Agents

July 16, 2026

New York City has slashed the authorized headcount of uniformed safety agents assigned to protect students and staff in 1,800 public schools, leaving them more vulnerable to neighborhood gangs, violence and crime, principals and elected officials warn. The $126 billion FY 2027 budget approved last week by Mayor Zohr...

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Authors Guild Plaintiffs Win Case Against DOGE and the NEH For Mass Cancellation of Grants

May 22, 2026

A New York federal court in a 143-page decision today held for the Authors Guild plaintiffs on every count in its case on behalf of individual writers and scholars against DOGE and the NEH for DOGE’s April 2025 mass cancellation at the National Endowment for the Humanities. It ordered the reinstatement of every gran...

U,S, Supreme Court Rules That "Some Harm" Shown is Enough in Title VII Test

May 19, 2026

Whether Title VII Requires a Showing of Significant Harm: The Supreme Court held that a Title VII plaintiff challenging a job transfer must show that the transfer brought about some harm with respect to an identifiable term or condition of employment, but the harm need not be significant. The Court rejected the City...

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Allentown PA Sixth-graders Use An Artificial-Intelligence Powered Program With Mixed Reviews

March 13, 2026

Allentown Superintendent Carol Birks has wholeheartedly embraced AI, and CourseMojo’s rollout is just one example of how the district is investing in the technology. Others include the development of an artificial intelligence track at Bridgeview Academy, a summer student AI Institute at DeSales University, and expa...

Embracing Montessori Principles: A Guide to Wholesome Child Development

May 14, 2025

From Alphabet Train Montessori Toys: In the world of Montessori, what most people would term "toys" are actually materials. They are not toys; they are deliberately designed tools that separate a specific skill or knowledge into distinct form, enabling children to focus intensely, practice independently, and become ...

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Supreme Court Declines To Hear Parents’ Challenge To School Policy Secretly Encouraging Gender Transitions

December 10, 2024

The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals held in March that the parents did not have standing to challenge the policy because they had not been directly impacted by it.

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U.S. Supreme Court Gives Judges Power To Rein in Agency Regulators

June 29, 2024

Bloomberg Law: A divided US Supreme Court threw out a decades-old legal doctrine that empowered federal regulators to interpret unclear laws, issuing a blockbuster ruling that will constrain environmental, consumer and financial-watchdog agencies. The 6-3 decision raises new questions about longstanding rules and pu...

Superintendent Marian Kim Phelps Fired For Cause By the Poway Unified School District in San Diego, California

May 3, 2024

Marian Kim Phelps was fired as Poway Unified School District Superintendent after she allegedly harassed and bullied members of her daughter's high school softball team. According to a lawsuit filed against Phelps, she reportedly threatened the team's graduation privileges after she felt they didn't clap loudly enou...

U.S. Supreme Court Declines To Rule on Affirmative Action at a Virginia High School

February 28, 2024

The justices on Tuesday declined to hear an appeal challenging the admissions policy at a competitive Virginia public high school that uses socio-economic factors to diversify its student body. That announcement came just weeks after the court refused to stop West Point from using race as a factor in deciding who to...

New York City Public Schools Struggle Under Political Jump-Starts Without Long-Term Strategic Planning in Partnership With Parents

February 19, 2024

Public school parents in a school district must be partners with education politicians who fund and/or design policy. When designing public policy for public schools in New York City, education leaders and legislators should examine the circumstances of each school district and its population first, then design stra...

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The Anti-Defamation League Targets Online Amplifiers of LGBTO+Hate as Extremists

January 29, 2024

The Heritage Foundation's Oversight Project obtained an email which showed that The Anti-Defamation League flags "online amplifiers of LGBTO+hate" as extremists to be examined by law enforcement. The Daily Signal, Heritage's news outlet, posted that "The revelation indicates that the Anti-Defamation League, “the le...

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National Labor Relations Board Finds Amazon Unlawfully Retaliated Against Workers For Their Union Activity

December 4, 2023

On November 21, 2023, Administrative Law Judge Lauren Esposito issued a decision finding that Amazon.com Services LLC (Amazon) violated the National Labor Relations Act by dismissing employees early, altering employees’ work assignments, and subjecting employees to closer supervision in retaliation for the employees...

U.S. Army Attempts To Re-Hire Those Terminated For Refusing Vaccination With the COVID Vaccine

November 21, 2023

While the struggling U.S. Army continues to fail to retain and recruit service members, it has a new tactic: Extend an olive branch to the same uniformed personnel who were punished for refusing the COVID-19 shot. That supposed olive branch, however, is being mocked and scorned.

Mahmoud et al v. McKnight: Parents From a Variety of Faiths Are Denied Right To Be Notified of and Opt Their Children Out of Instruction On Family Life and Human Sexuality

August 28, 2023

Parents in Maryland are fighting back against the Montgomery County Board of Education for forcing pre-K and elementary-aged children to read controversial books that promote a one-sided transgender ideology, encourage gender transitioning, and focus excessively on romance—with no parental notification or opportunit...

Principal Heather Jansen and Her Student Rat Pack

August 24, 2023

Heather Jansen was appointed principal of PS 46 in Staten Island, NY in September 2021. When she started working there she held a staff meeting where she told staff that the school was “racist” because all of the staff were white folk. She enlisted a group of students in 2nd-4th grades to report on teachers and thes...

Douglass Mackey, Aka @RickyVaughn99, Indicted in New York For Spreading Misinformation Relevant To The 2016 Presidential Election

April 1, 2023

On March 31, 2023 Douglass Mackey was convicted by a federal jury in Brooklyn of the charge of Conspiracy Against Rights. The origin of this charge occurred on January 22, 2021, two days after Joe Biden was inaugurated. Douglass Mackey was indicted under 18 USC 241, for conspiracy to violate civil rights. Mackey’s ...

First Amendment Free Speech and Public School Teachers: Dodge v Evergreen (9th Cir. 2022): Where Does the Law Begin?

December 31, 2022

How much protection of speech and its' effect do teachers have: "any violation of Plaintiff’s First Amendment rights by the principal was clearly established where longstanding precedent held that concern over the reaction to controversial or disfavored speech itself does not justify restricting such speech."

Emergency Motion To Stop the Discharge of Student Debt Granted: State of Nebraska v Joseph Biden Jr.

November 18, 2022

Plaintiff States’ requested to preliminarily enjoin the United States Secretary of Education (“Secretary”) from implementing a plan to discharge student loan debt under the Higher Education Relief Opportunities for Students Act of 2003(“HEROES Act”). The States contend the student loan debt relief plan contravenes t...

Public Schools Lose Almost 2 Million Students To Less Traditional Forms of Schooling

August 23, 2022

A new poll from Education Next, an education policy publication, found that enrollment in public schools has dropped by 4 percent over the last two years, while the number of children attending charter schools, private schools and being homeschooled has gone up.

Davyon Johnson, 11-Years Old, Saves The Lives of Two People in One Day

December 29, 2021

An 11-year-old boy from Oklahoma is being honored for his heroism after he saved a choking classmate and rescued a woman from a house fire in one day. Davyon Johnson was named an honorary member of both the sheriff's office and the police force and was recognized by the board of education in his hometown of Muskogee...

Amazon Covid Settlement Spotlights Board Focus on Workforce, Environmental, social and Governance Concerns For Corporate Boards

December 1, 2021

Amazon.com Inc.’s recent settlement with California over employee Covid-19 notifications is the latest example of how pandemic-related workforce safety has emerged as a top environmental, social and governance concern for corporate boards. The tech giant, following a state investigation, agreed to pay a $500,000 fin...

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U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland Directs the FBI and U.S. Attorney' Offices To Report and Investigate Parents Who Harass School Board Members

November 4, 2021

From Editor Betsy Combier: I believe that this is government censorship, and violates our First Amendment rights (The First Amendment guarantees freedoms concerning religion, expression, assembly, and the right to petition. It forbids Congress from both promoting one religion over others and also restricting an ind...

Profit Over Safety: Whistleblower Frances Haugen Details Facebook's Deliberate Harm

October 4, 2021

The hits keep coming for Facebook. Last night, in an interview on “60 Minutes,” a former Facebook product manager described how she had leaked internal documents to The Wall Street Journal. The newspaper had published a series of eye-opening articles dubbed “The Facebook Files,” detailing what the social media giant...

Ashley Gjovik Was Fired From Apple After Making Labor Complaints Against the Company

September 16, 2021

Ms. Gjovik says, "Speaking out feels like going up against a powerful government....In March, after the company sent an email to our management team and me that they wanted to test if toxic chemicals were present in the indoor air of our office building, I raised concerns about the safety of the building: Our office...

"My Biggest Job Was to Keep Them Safe" by Roe Wrubel,Third-Grade Teacher at NYC's PS 89, Near the World Trade Center Towers, on September 11, 2001

September 11, 2021

It was September 11, 2001, and New York City teacher Ronit “Roe” Wrubel was still figuring out the quickest route to P.S. 89, the redbrick elementary school where she’d just started teaching third grade. A brilliant blue sky, washed clean by the previous night’s thunderstorm, beckoned through the windows of her expr...

Los Angeles Magazine: Cecily Myart-Cruz’s Hostile Takeover of L.A.’s Public Schools

September 8, 2021

Traditionally, the job of UTLA is to represent the best interests of the L.A. school system’s 33,000 teachers—to ensure that they are paid properly, that they have the resources to do their jobs, and that their work conditions are safe. But under Myart-Cruz’s stewardship, which began when she assumed office in the s...

Current Events

New York City Public Schools Overrun With Violence Due To Mayor Slashing Funds For Safety Agents

Authors Guild Plaintiffs Win Case Against DOGE and the NEH For Mass Cancellation of Grants

U,S, Supreme Court Rules That "Some Harm" Shown is Enough in Title VII Test

Allentown PA Sixth-graders Use An Artificial-Intelligence Powered Program With Mixed Reviews

Embracing Montessori Principles: A Guide to Wholesome Child Development

Supreme Court Declines To Hear Parents’ Challenge To School Policy Secretly Encouraging Gender Transitions

U.S. Supreme Court Gives Judges Power To Rein in Agency Regulators

Superintendent Marian Kim Phelps Fired For Cause By the Poway Unified School District in San Diego, California

U.S. Supreme Court Declines To Rule on Affirmative Action at a Virginia High School

New York City Public Schools Struggle Under Political Jump-Starts Without Long-Term Strategic Planning in Partnership With Parents

The Anti-Defamation League Targets Online Amplifiers of LGBTO+Hate as Extremists

National Labor Relations Board Finds Amazon Unlawfully Retaliated Against Workers For Their Union Activity

U.S. Army Attempts To Re-Hire Those Terminated For Refusing Vaccination With the COVID Vaccine

Mahmoud et al v. McKnight: Parents From a Variety of Faiths Are Denied Right To Be Notified of and Opt Their Children Out of Instruction On Family Life and Human Sexuality

Principal Heather Jansen and Her Student Rat Pack

Douglass Mackey, Aka @RickyVaughn99, Indicted in New York For Spreading Misinformation Relevant To The 2016 Presidential Election

First Amendment Free Speech and Public School Teachers: Dodge v Evergreen (9th Cir. 2022): Where Does the Law Begin?

Emergency Motion To Stop the Discharge of Student Debt Granted: State of Nebraska v Joseph Biden Jr.

Public Schools Lose Almost 2 Million Students To Less Traditional Forms of Schooling

Davyon Johnson, 11-Years Old, Saves The Lives of Two People in One Day

Amazon Covid Settlement Spotlights Board Focus on Workforce, Environmental, social and Governance Concerns For Corporate Boards

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland Directs the FBI and U.S. Attorney' Offices To Report and Investigate Parents Who Harass School Board Members

Profit Over Safety: Whistleblower Frances Haugen Details Facebook's Deliberate Harm

Ashley Gjovik Was Fired From Apple After Making Labor Complaints Against the Company

"My Biggest Job Was to Keep Them Safe" by Roe Wrubel,Third-Grade Teacher at NYC's PS 89, Near the World Trade Center Towers, on September 11, 2001

Los Angeles Magazine: Cecily Myart-Cruz’s Hostile Takeover of L.A.’s Public Schools

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