As school choice advances, Jorge Elorza, CEO of Democrats for Education Reform and former mayor of Providence, Rhode Island, declares that voters no longer trust Democrats to deliver on educational needs. He writes that American schools are failing too many children, “particularly those from the very communities Democrats claim to champion. Literacy and math proficiency rates are abysmal, and too many students graduate unprepared for college or careers. And yet, too many Democrats have positioned themselves as defenders of the status quo. This is both morally indefensible and a core reason why we have lost touch with our base.”

I recently reported on many of the dreadful happenings in the education realm as we kick off the new year, but there have also been some promising turns.

DEI

Following Florida’s lead earlier in 2024, other states, including Georgia, Alabama, Utah, and Iowa, have passed anti-DEI measures. Then, in December, the Idaho State Board of Education approved a ban on DEI ideology in higher education as part of its commitment to “the success of every student.” Their resolution states, “Institutions shall not establish or maintain a central office, policy, procedure, or initiative that promotes DEI ideology,” which they define as “any approach that prioritizes ‘personal identity characteristics’ (race, color, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, religion, or gender identity) over individual merit.”

 

THE SO-CALLED “SCHOOL CHOICE” MOVEMENT IS NOT REAL “REFORM.” IT’S GOAL IS TO SAVE AND THEREFORE PERPETUATE A SYSTEM THAT IS IMMORAL: RCP: School-Choice Fight Shifts From Red States To Blue States

SERIOUSLY, COULD IT BE ANY WORSE THAN WHAT WE HAVE NOW: AI will replace human teachers in new Arizona charter school

TEACHING CHILDREN HOW TO READ IS ACTUALLY QUITE EASY IF YOU USE THE RIGHT METHOD, WHICH IS THE “PHONEMIC AWARENESS” METHOD OR JUST PHONICS: The Tower of Psycho-babble in education

AMERICA’S GIRLS AND YOUNG WOMEN ARE BECOMING SECOND-CLASS CITIZENS. Time for fathers to stand up to defend their daughters: Parent says trans runner ousted daughter from coveted spot on cross-country team

THE DISUNITED KINGDOM IS A THIRD-RATE CLOWN SHOW: U.K. progressives look to ‘decolonize’ school science curricula.

PUBLIC SCHOOLS, OF COURSE: 41 Percent of Chicago Teachers Were Chronically Absent Last Year, Report Finds

SUE THEM UNTIL THEY SAY “UNCLE”: ‘A Lot of Teachers’ Taking Legal Action over Pronouns

IF THE GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS PROVIDE BREAKFAST AND LUNCH, WHY NOT SUPPER? Billions of Meals: Behind the School Breakfast Program 

THIS LAW CONFIRMS WHAT WE ALREADY KNEW: MANY TEACHERS CAN’T READ, WRITE, OR CALCULATE: Teachers Will No Longer Need To Pass Basic Reading, Writing And Math Test For Certification In This Blue State

I’M 100% OPPOSED TO “WOKENESS” AND HAVE BEEN FIGHTING IT MY ENTIRE CAREER, BUT CONSERVATIVE “REFORM” SOLUTIONS NEVER WORK: How to Get Wokeness Out of Schools

THE IDEA OF UNIVERSAL PRE-K IS ABHORRENT IN THEORY AND EVEN WORSE IN PRACTICE: What Ever Happened to Universal Pre-K?

THE ONLY REAL REMEDY IS TO GET YOUR KIDS OUT OF CALIFORNIA’S SCHOOLS ASAP: A Remedy for California’s Destructive Ethnic Studies Curriculum

CHARTER SCHOOLS AND VOUCHERS DO NOT REPRESENT “FREEDOM”. They represent moving taxpayer money around: A Winning Strategy

THIS IS ALL TRIMMING AROUND THE EDGES. The only meaningful reform is abolition: Trump eyes education reform as math, reading scores hit lowest level in last decade

THERE IS NO CLIMATE CRISIS, SO STOP LYING ABOUT IT: Teaching about the Climate Crisis: Justice & Role Play

THE LEFT DESTROYS EVERYTHING, INCLUDING WHOLE NATIONS: Labour to make national curriculum more ‘diverse.’ Bridget Phillipson, the Education Secretary, has begun a review to “refresh” what is taught in schools, pledging to “breathe new life into our outdated curriculum”.

• The new curriculum will be compulsory in all state schools, including academies that were previously free to opt out.
• The Telegraph can reveal that the Department for Education’s terms of reference for the overhaul explicitly say that the department (DfE) aims to create a curriculum that reflects the “diversities of our society” and help produce young people who “appreciate the diversity” of Britain.
• This newspaper has also seen suggestions for changes to the curriculum that have been submitted to the review by unions and other teaching groups, including for how to “decolonise” subjects which have been branded too “mono-cultural”.

HOW ABOUT SOME GOOD NEWS?: Public school closures were on the upswing in 2024

WE ONLY WANT TEACHERS WITH PROGRESSIVE VALUES: Minnesota may deny licenses if teachers don’t affirm LGBT identities

DEFUND AND DECERTIFY THE SO-CALLED “ED SCHOOLS”: ANALYSIS: Schools are abandoning progressive curricula from teachers colleges

THAT’S A HARD “YES”! ​​​​​Time to Pull the Plug on the Department of Education

YES, THESE PEOPLE ARE TEACHING YOUR CHILDREN AND YOU’RE DOING NOTHING ABOUT IT! Why is that? Leftist teacher claims 95% of trans kids know their gender identity by ages three to five

ANALYSIS TRUE: National K-12 teacher shortage due to education colleges pushing ‘radical philosophy’, expert argues

TRUTH: Blacks Need High Quality Education, Not a DEI Agenda

WHAT DO YOU SAY NOW? MAP: Transgenderism and “Queer Theory” in K-12 schools in all Continental United States

IDEAS HAVE CONSEQUENCES. You should think about the consequences of all this gender ideology for American society in 30 years: Academia’s gender ideology comes to K-12 curriculum

GEE, DO YA THINK? Historic decline in IQ could stem from poor education, study shows

WHY SHOULD YOU BE SURPRISED THAT GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS ARE IN THE BUSINESS OF INDOCTRINATION?  WATCH: Prof Giordano says K-12 climate change curriculum is ‘about indoctrination and activism’

THIS IS WHY WE CALL IT THE EDUCATION DEEP STATE:  Stony Brook U receives $700k state grant to push ‘diversity’ in K-12 leadership