Parent Advocates - ParentAdvocates.org

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...

Parent Calls Police After Child is Pulled From Class For Not Wearing a Mask

September 4, 2021

A Long Island parent called the cops after their child and five other middle school students were pulled out of class for not wearing masks, police said Friday. The six students at Islip Middle School were moved to the gym by a security guard Thursday over their non-compliance with the mask rule, according to Suffol...

No Image Available

U.S. Education Department Investigates Five States' Mask Mandate Bans

September 1, 2021

The U.S. Department of Education sent a warning to five states on Monday that their statewide bans on mask mandates, including in schools, could violate students' civil rights. Suzanne B. Goldberg, the department's acting assistant secretary for civil rights, sent letters to state education leaders in Iowa, Oklahoma...

No Image Available

A Humana Inc. Medicare Advantage Health Plan for Seniors in Florida Overcharged Medicare Nearly $200 Million

August 23, 2021

A Humana Inc. health plan for seniors in Florida improperly collected nearly $200 million in 2015 by overstating how sick some patients were, according to a new federal audit, which seeks to claw back the money. The Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General's recommendation to repay, if finalized, would ...

A School District in Rhode Island Closed Meetings On CRT To The Public, Parent Nicole Solas Tries To Stop Them And Open Up The Discussions

August 3, 2021

A Rhode Island school district is banning public access to meetings where race-related proposals are considered, prompting a mother to ask the state attorney general to intervene.....Those meetings fall under the state's Open Meetings Act (OMA), lawyers for Nicole Solas told the Office of the Attorney General in a l...

Family of Henrietta Lack Sues Pharmaceutical Companies For Theft After Using Cells Without Permission

August 1, 2021

The family of Henrietta Lacks—the Virginia woman whose “immortal” cells continue to be used in medical research seven decades after they were taken from her—is suing pharmaceutical companies for what the family claims is the theft of those cells. The cells were obtained from Lacks without her consent during a biopsy...

No Image Available

A Landmark Civil Rights Lawsuit: Private litigation against critical race theory in Evanston public schools

July 23, 2021

Last week, a teacher in Evanston, Illinois, filed a landmark civil rights lawsuit against her school district. Her complaint: the district segregated staff by race for professional development, subjected students to race-shaming “privilege walks,” instructed teachers to take race into account in student discipline, ...

Amazon Illegally Fired Activist Workers Emily Cunningham and Maren Costa, Labor Board Finds

July 20, 2021

Amazon illegally retaliated against two of its most prominent internal critics when it fired them last year, the National Labor Relations Board has determined. The employees, Emily Cunningham and Maren Costa, had publicly pushed the company to reduce its impact on climate change and address concerns about its wareho...

No Image Available

$4.5 Billion Settlement Reached in Opioid Epidemic Deal Between 15 States and Purdue Pharma

July 8, 2021

Fifteen states have reached an agreement with Purdue Pharma, the maker of the prescription painkiller OxyContin, that would pave the way toward a $4.5 billion settlement of thousands of opioid cases. The states decided late Wednesday to drop their opposition to Purdue’s bankruptcy reorganization plan, in exchange fo...

An Unmarried Catholic Teacher Got Pregnant, Then Was Fired. She Sued

July 5, 2021

When a Catholic school art teacher was asked to take on extra responsibilities, she requested a raise, explaining that she was about to have a baby. Weeks later, she was fired from her New Jersey elementary school. The principal, a Roman Catholic nun, told her she was being terminated “because she was pregnant and u...

In NYC the Absent Teacher Reserve and The Rubber Room Are Both Strategies For Unlawful Denial of Tenure Job Protections

June 13, 2021

The Absent Teacher Reserve pool is a unique group of educators who are given jobs as nomad temporary substitute teachers/assistant principals/staff and are used by principals to cover absences or illness of permanent staff as if they were per diem employees, but they get their regular salary and they stay in one sch...

No Image Available

1,200 NYC Preschoolers with Disabilities Went Without Seats in Preschool Special Education Classes Last Year

June 12, 2021

Data released by the DOE show that at the end of the 2019-2020 school year, 1,215 preschoolers with disabilities were waiting for seats in legally mandated preschool special education classes in violation of their legal rights. While the City and State have been expanding seats in general education prekindergarten ...

They Kept Schools Running as Covid Raged: ‘We Had to Be Here’....Staff Members Who Stayed

June 2, 2021

During the worst weeks of the pandemic last spring, when many New Yorkers stopped leaving their homes altogether, Theresa DiCristi did what she always does. She set her alarm for 2:30 a.m. and climbed onto a deserted Long Island Railroad car from her small town long before the sun rose. She would arrive by 5:30 at P...

Teachers and Parents Are Angry About The Woke Revolution and Their "Critical Race Theory"

April 23, 2021

Teacher Paul Rossi and Brearley parent Andrew Gutmann do not agree with the wokeism movement, nor the U.S. government's support of what they see is against the right to free speech and other Constitutional rights. President Biden’s Department of Education has just released the text of a proposed new rule establishin...

No Image Available

New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo's Toxic Reign

March 31, 2021

New York State is in the grip of massive corruption. The Cuomo family is implicated in many scandals over the past decade, including the 2014 shutdown of the Moreland Commission, a public corruption watchdog panel he himself set up, but closed once members got too close to Governor Andrew Cuomo's own fraud and decei...

Boston Public Schools Cancel New Advanced Classes For High Performing Students Because of Racial Inequalities

February 27, 2021

The program known as Advanced Work Classes was intended to serve high-performing students in the fourth, fifth, and sixth grades. Students are encouraged to study their subjects in a deeper and non-traditional manner. School officials became concerned when a report showed that the program was disproportionately serv...

No Image Available

OP-ED: Cancel Culture Activists Disrupt Democracy in America

January 30, 2021

“Cancel culture” — sometimes referred to as “call-out culture” — is a form of ostracism in which people are thrust or locked out of social or professional circles, either in the real world or in the realm of online social media. Those who are the targets of this ostracism are said to be “canceled.” Such cancellation...

Too Many Parents and Decision Makers Treat Teachers Like They Don't Matter

January 10, 2021

(CNN)Julie Davis, 49, was an inspirational third grade teacher, a "mother to everyone," who attended her students' extracurriculars and donated to children in need. About three weeks after a student at her North Carolina school tested positive for Covid-19, Davis fell ill. This mother and grandmother died certain, h...

Chicago Teachers Join Parents in Rejecting In-Person Learning Until Buildings Are Safe and Pandemic is Under Control

January 3, 2021

As CPS educators mourned the COVID death of another school clerk forced back into unsafe working conditions this fall, rank and file CTU members across the city are rejecting CPS' effort to force thousands more back into unsafe buildings beginning this Monday. That includes CTU members who are parents — and who have...

New York City Public Schools' Year in Review: 2020 Highlights of A School Year Disrupted By the Pandemic

December 31, 2020

The novel coronavirus pandemic has upended almost every aspect of life in 2020 but nowhere has suffered so many disruptions quite like New York City schools. From the sudden shift to remote learning, the city’s teacher union threatening to strike, to the twice-delayed reopening of schools for in-person classes.....T...

No Image Available

EEOC Issues Critical Guidance for Vaccination Issues in the Workplace

December 30, 2020

With the continuing effect of COVID-19 on the workplace and the recent roll-out of the first COVID-19 vaccine across the country, employers are increasingly concerned with how the equal employment opportunity (EEO) laws will be applied to them in their efforts to encourage or mandate employee use of the vaccine. Whi...

Children's Health Defense on News of Life-Threatening Reaction to Pfizer COVID Vaccine.

December 13, 2020

In August, CHD asked regulators to investigate the use of polyethylene glycol (PEG) in COVID mRNA vaccines, which could have caused the severe allergic reactions reported this week by two of the first UK recipients of Pfizer’s vaccine....England’s National Health Service (NHS) warned Wednesday that people “with a hi...

Should Schools Stay Open? Not So Fast.

December 11, 2020

ON THANKSGIVING DAY, The COVID Monitor – our database tracking coronavirus cases in K-12 schools – showed there had been nearly 250,000 student and staff cases across the United States since Aug. 1. That's more cases than in every U.S. state combined from January to April 1 of this year. The data shows that, until c...

Supreme Court Weighs Breadth of Computer Hacking Law

December 1, 2020

Officer allegedly used a law-enforcement database for personal purposes in a case that has drawn widespread attention. The high court took up the officer’s appeal on Monday to examine a thorny question about the decades-old Computer Fraud and Abuse Act: Breaking into a computer system is a clear violation, but what ...

No Image Available

Justice Department Reaches Landmark Agreement with Massachusetts Department of Children and Family to Address Discrimination Against Parents with Disabilities

November 19, 2020

The Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services (HHS) announced today that they reached a landmark agreement with the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families (DCF). The agreement resolves findings by the Justice Department and HHS that DCF discriminated against parents with disabilities in the ad...

Free Speech Under Siege - Civil Liberties and the Press

November 19, 2020

NOVEMBER 15, 2020 Free Speech Under Siege Civil Liberties and the Press BY JACK DELANEY LINK: https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/11/15/free-speech-under-siege-civil-liberties-and-the-press/ The protections guaranteed to Americans by the First Amendment of the Constitution are under assault, and they have been ...

Current Events

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

Parent Calls Police After Child is Pulled From Class For Not Wearing a Mask

U.S. Education Department Investigates Five States' Mask Mandate Bans

A Humana Inc. Medicare Advantage Health Plan for Seniors in Florida Overcharged Medicare Nearly $200 Million

A School District in Rhode Island Closed Meetings On CRT To The Public, Parent Nicole Solas Tries To Stop Them And Open Up The Discussions

Family of Henrietta Lack Sues Pharmaceutical Companies For Theft After Using Cells Without Permission

A Landmark Civil Rights Lawsuit: Private litigation against critical race theory in Evanston public schools

Amazon Illegally Fired Activist Workers Emily Cunningham and Maren Costa, Labor Board Finds

$4.5 Billion Settlement Reached in Opioid Epidemic Deal Between 15 States and Purdue Pharma

An Unmarried Catholic Teacher Got Pregnant, Then Was Fired. She Sued

In NYC the Absent Teacher Reserve and The Rubber Room Are Both Strategies For Unlawful Denial of Tenure Job Protections

1,200 NYC Preschoolers with Disabilities Went Without Seats in Preschool Special Education Classes Last Year

They Kept Schools Running as Covid Raged: ‘We Had to Be Here’....Staff Members Who Stayed

Teachers and Parents Are Angry About The Woke Revolution and Their "Critical Race Theory"

New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo's Toxic Reign

Boston Public Schools Cancel New Advanced Classes For High Performing Students Because of Racial Inequalities

OP-ED: Cancel Culture Activists Disrupt Democracy in America

Too Many Parents and Decision Makers Treat Teachers Like They Don't Matter

Chicago Teachers Join Parents in Rejecting In-Person Learning Until Buildings Are Safe and Pandemic is Under Control

New York City Public Schools' Year in Review: 2020 Highlights of A School Year Disrupted By the Pandemic

EEOC Issues Critical Guidance for Vaccination Issues in the Workplace

Children's Health Defense on News of Life-Threatening Reaction to Pfizer COVID Vaccine.

Should Schools Stay Open? Not So Fast.

Supreme Court Weighs Breadth of Computer Hacking Law

Justice Department Reaches Landmark Agreement with Massachusetts Department of Children and Family to Address Discrimination Against Parents with Disabilities

Free Speech Under Siege - Civil Liberties and the Press

Looking for older Current Events?