Teachers during Georgia school shooting identified police with panic button technology
Citizenship, the immigration crisis, and EVs A gunman opened fire at Apalachee High School. Barrow County, GeorgiaThe explosion occurred on Wednesday morning, killing four people, including two students and two teachers. Authorities first learned of the incident when Apalachee High School faculty and staff deployed Centegix CrisisAlert ID technology, which features an unobtrusive panic button […]
Nearly 80% of US teachers say youngsters less prepared to start school than several years ago
Nearly 80% of U.S. teachers say children are less prepared for elementary school than they used to be, the most dismal rate of any country in the global survey. Nearly half of U.S. teachers surveyed (47%) blamed the lingering effects of COVID-19 disruptions for the learning slowdown among their country's youngest students. In the survey, […]
Minnesota Walz-appointed board requires teachers to ‘affirm’ their students’ gender identities
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz appointed members of the state's Teachers Commission, which, in a public notice, will require teachers to “affirm” students' gender identities, be “race conscious,” and learn to “disrupt oppressive systems.” The Minnesota Professional Educator Licensing Standards Board (PELSB) updated its Effective Practice Standards with new guidelines for state teacher candidates that will […]
Walz appointees to force new Minnesota teachers to ‘affirm’ gender ideology, critical race theory-like ideas
New teachers in Minnesota must immediately “affirm” radical views on race and gender after the state's board of education updated teaching certification standards. April 2023, Professional Educator Licensing and Standards Board ( 13 peopleAt least some of them were appointed by Gov. Tim Walz, a Democrat. Standards of Effective PracticeIt is required for all future […]
1 in 3 Chicago Public-School Teachers Keep Their Kids out of Public Schools
A survey has found that nearly one-third of Chicago’s highest-paid public school teachers do not send their children to the Chicago Public School System (CPS). Even Stacey Davis Gates, the current leader of the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU), sends her son to private school, according to the Chicago-based Illinois Policy Institute. According to federal government […]
Florida teen, Brendan Depa, wrote apology letter to teacher’s aide Joan Naydich he severely beat up over Nintendo Switch
A hulking Florida high school student who viciously punched a teacher’s assistant over a Nintendo Switch has written a letter of apology to the victim that was never read in court, in which he claims he made a “mistake that will never be made again.” Brendan Depa, 18, was sentenced to five years in prison […]
NYC teachers blast new math curriculum amid leaked reports of failing test scores
New York City algebra teachers are dreading the coming school year because nearly all of them will have to use a commercial math curriculum that has been panned as a “total failure.” Last year, teachers at 265 schools piloted an “illustrative math” curriculum that Chancellor David Banks hopes will help improve the city’s struggling math […]
Teachers’ Minn. pension fund under Tim Walz ‘cooking the books’ by vastly underreporting fees: ‘Madoff miracle’ – New York Post
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s public school teachers’ retirement system “falsified the books” by dramatically under-reporting the annual fees it paid to Wall Street investment managers, posting nearly impossible gains that rivaled the “Madoff miracle,” a top pension investigator said. The state Teachers Retirement Association has disclosed less than 10 percent of the estimated $2.9 billion […]
Florida teen caught on video brutally beating teacher’s aide sentenced to 5 years in prison despite adoptive mother’s pleas
A Florida teenager who made national headlines in 2023 for brutally beating a teacher’s assistant has been sentenced to five years in state prison. Brendan Depa was arrested Surveillance Video On February 21, he punched the 57-year-old victim, knocking him to the floor as passersby looked on at Matanzas High School in Palm Coast. He […]
Florida teen who pummeled teacher’s aide over Nintendo Switch learns his fate
A Florida teenager who assaulted a high school teacher’s assistant over a Nintendo Switch was sentenced to five years in prison on Tuesday. Brendan Depa, now 18, pleaded not guilty to a felony aggravated assault charge for the assault on paraprofessional Joan Neidich last year. The teacher suffered five broken ribs, hearing loss and a […]