5 days ago · Government HHS spent $23B on immigrants for homes, cars, college since 2020; some funds fueled child exploitation. As ordinary taxpaying Americans struggled with the effects of inflation during the Biden administration, his Health and Human Services (HHS) department spent $23 billion on immigrants for everything from homes to cars to college.

We are living in tumultuous times. American culture seems confused, even schizophrenic. Culture is never uniform, but within the nation today, contradictory factions are growing. Parents are unsure what kind of future awaits their children, and they fear too many, even their own, will be swept up in a small but raging torrent of political […]

Oct 2, 2024 · A 19-year-old student is taking legal action against her Connecticut school district after she graduated high school unable to read, write or do math. Aleysha Ortiz and her family moved to Connecticut from Puerto Rico to pursue the American dream. But now they’re disillusioned with the public school system. “We heard Connecticut had the best […]

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5 days ago · (The Daily Signal) – Female athletes and their families are gearing up for legal battles as high school athletic associations in California and Minnesota face a federal investigation for refusing to implement President Donald Trump’s recent executive order banning men from women’s sports. The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights announced investigations Wednesday into ...

6 days ago · (The Daily Signal) – We have a national reading problem in the U.S. The widespread lament over the further decline in children’s reading scores underscores the failure of our country’s public schools, but the predicament is not limited to primary education. It extends all the way up into America’s elite colleges and universities as well. A firestorm recently erupted in […]

2 days ago · Public-school districts in Iowa are predictably panicking over recent legislation to streamline homeschool regulations – much like they did more than a decade ago. “New homeschooling bill puts Iowa kids at risk,” screams a BleedingHeartland.com opinion piece by Bruce Lear, a retired regional director of the Iowa State …

Opinion Make the National Assessment of Educational Progress great again (The Daily Signal) – Florida has led the nation in education since 2019, instituting revolutionary educational reforms such as first-in-the-nation progress monitoring assessments, universal school choice, supporting parental rights in…

Nov 20, 2024 · An increasing number of professors at first-tier colleges are lamenting the lack of reading skills in their students from public schools, with some educators calling it a national “literacy crisis.” Even without hard numbers about the extent of this phenomenon, anecdotal evidence from The Atlantic suggests a “concerning rate of illiteracy (they) are seeing in […]