“It’s not enough to just have parents worried about this,” said Celia Jaffe, the Fourth District PTA’s vice president for advocacy. “It’s got to be the rest of the voting public – besides parents who have kids in schools –…
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Abstinence Education Targeted for a Budget Cut?
by Dan Chmielewski • • Comments Off
The Rev. James Dobson has issued a clarion call to this faithful that “Liberals Want Federal Abstinence Education Cut.” Read it here. The president has asked for $204 million for this sort of sex education. Dodson points to a recent study…
Cutting Education But Requiring the Pledge
by Dan Chmielewski • • 4 Comments
Here’s a cute post from the Flash Report; its a summary of bad bills and good ones (hint: all the bad ones are from Democrats and the good ones from Republicans, in case you were wondering). FR statehouse writer Meredith…
1,836 Teachers Expected to be Laid off in Orange County School Districts
by Heather Pritchard • • Comments Off
While school districts shuffle the numbers and figure out their final counts, it stands that 1,836 teachers will receive pink slips in Orange County School Districts. The OC Register has the numbers by the districts… Anaheim Elementary: 75 temporary teachers…
LATE BREAKING: Capo Unified Recall Qualifies for Ballot
by Andrew Davey • • Comments Off
Wow. Just wow. The great soap-opera worthy saga that is the story of the Capistrano Unified School Board just gets “interestinger” and “interestinger”. Today, the Registrar of Voters just opened the new chapter in this ongoing drama. A recall has…
Attention NSA, FBI and CIA
by Dan Chmielewski • • Comments Off
…and any other branch of the Federal Government monitoring my email, phone calls and Internet activity. The web order I placed today for three Soviet replica flags is for a school project my son is doing. His sophomore Social Studies…
California Appeals Court rules on Homeschooling
by Heather Pritchard • • 23 Comments
The recent ruling by a California Appeals court has declared that children homeschooled must be taught by someone with a teaching credential. This leaves “an estimated 166,000 children as possible truants and their parents at risk of prosecution.” Yet the…
