Alabama: WAFF reported that a high school history club’s trip to see the historical civil rights film Selma, was denied approval by DeKalb County school superintendent Hugh Taylor over concerns of language. Taylor, who identifies as a Christian and a Republican, has not seen the PG-13 film, but claims he is concerned about obscene and […]
In a 7 to 1 vote on Tuesday, a Montgomery County Maryland school board has decided to strike Christian and Jewish holy days from the official 2015-2016 school calendar. The vote came after Muslim leaders pushed for officials to include Eid al-Adha, an Islamic holiday, to the school schedule, according to the Washington Post. Muslim leaders […]
Teachers are speaking out against school reforms they feel are demeaning or make it impossible to do the job they were hired to do. This is a resignation letter from an educator, Gerald J. Conti, a social studies teacher at Westhill High School in Syracuse, New York. This letter originally appeared in the Washington […]
Democratic Senate candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes has a new political ad that chronicles Senator Mitch McConnell’s anti-women voting record – and it isn’t pretty. From Grimes’ website: After becoming an international laughingstock with the McConnelling phenomenon, Mitch McConnell is at it again in another awkward attempt to connect with voters. Today, Alison for Kentucky announces an aggressive new […]
The war between evolution and creationism is raging in Atlanta after a high school biology teacher showed a PowerPoint Presentation to students linking evolution to Satan. The story was first reported in The Southerner, the Henry W. Grady High School newspaper, by two students. The latest chapter in the debate over how to teach the […]