TeenScreen Expanding Despite Concerns More and more public schools are using TeenScreen, a controversial mental health screening diagnostic, despite public protests, myriad problems, and known conflicts of interest. According to TeenScreen deputy director Leslie McGuire, the program has expanded from 30 sites in 2003 to 600 sites in 46 states today. Requests for their screening [...]
The charter school movement was presented to the American people as a way to have more parental control of public school education. Charter schools are public schools financed by local taxpayers plus generous federal grants. But the people running charter schools are able to hire and fire teachers, administrators and staff and avoid control by [...]
Federal law makes it mandatory for all schools to teach about the Constitution on Constitution Day, which is September 17, or during Constitution Week if it falls on a weekend, as it does this year. It would be a good idea for you to check with your local public school and see how it is [...]
Eagle Forum always sends an observer to the annual convention of the National Education Association to report on its radical resolutions. The NEA usually has about 20 resolutions endorsing the gay rights agenda, often using the code word “diversity.” Here are some excerpts from pro-gay resolutions adopted this year by the National Education Association. [...]
California students will now be mandated to learn about gay historical figures, according to a bill just passed by the California state legislature. This bill passed easily in both Houses with big Democratic Party majorities. The bill requires students to study “the role and contributions of … gay, bisexual, and transgender Americans … to the [...]
By Phyllis Schlafly A national scandal hit the news when Georgia Governor Nathan Deal released a 413-page report describing how hundreds of Atlanta public school teachers and principals had been cheating during the past ten years on standardized tests in order to falsely report that their schools were doing a good job and the kids [...]
The people who want to impose national standards on all public schools are pushing a curriculum called Common Core Standards. It calls for the development of standards and a “shared curriculum” for nearly every subject, including English, math, history, geography, the sciences, arts, and health. 42 states have already adopted use of the Common Core [...]
By Phyllis Schlafly A 1979 law prohibits the federal government from funding public school curriculum. That law was passed because Congress and the American people don’t want government bureaucrats dictating what kids are taught in taxpayer-funded schools. However, it seems that the government isn’t paying any attention to that law. It is being bypassed in [...]
By Sue Ella Deadwyler–Georgia Insight A new State School Superintendent will be elected November 2nd, as will many local school board members. They’ll face this new federal control over education [Obama's federal Race to the Top] and learn whether it’s a done-deal or whether it can be changed or neutralized. Meanwhile, please vote wisely for [...]
By Phyllis Schlafly The No Child Left Behind Act, which allowed states to set their own public school standards for “proficiency,” is opposed and considered a failure by all factions in the education world. Therefore, we obviously should force all kids in every state to be held to uniform national standards of proficiency. Right? No; [...]
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