Public schools
Brickbat: Don't Teach Your Children Well
Officials at England's Henley College, a public school equivalent to junior and senior years in U.S. high schools, reported a politics teacher to authoriites after he showed videos of U.S. President Donald Trump to his…
Uvalde verdict shows why it’s hard to convict cops for not stopping mass shootings
Adrian Gonzales was the first police officer to arrive at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on the day a gunman murdered 19 students and two teachers there. Gonzales, who worked for the school district, therefore…
Brickbat: It Might Be Safer To Walk
Former Littleton, Colorado, school bus aide Kiarra Jones pleaded guilty to multiple charges after video and bus camera footage showed her assaulting three nonverbal students with autism while she worked on their bus. Parents…
Brett Kavanaugh is rightly skeptical of a nationwide ruling on trans athletes
Becky Pepper-Jackson just wanted to be on the girls' middle school cross country team. Now, five years later, she's at the Supreme Court. In 2021, West Virginia enacted a law banning transgender girls from playing…
A school district cop allegedly did nothing to stop the Uvalde mass shooting. Was that failure a crime?
After the 2022 shooting that killed 19 students and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, police officers were widely condemned for failing to act in time to prevent those deaths. The gunman was not stopped…
Mamdani’s education plans will worsen NYC schools’ fiscal crisis
In the February/March 2026 issue of Reason, we explore Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani's policy goals and what they mean for New York City. Click here to read the other entries. New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is…
Mamdani wants to expand de Blasio’s universal child care program
In the February/March 2026 issue of Reason, we explore Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani's policy goals and what they mean for New York City. Click here to read the other entries. "While families with young children…
Court permanently blocks California rule requiring teachers to hide gender confusion from parents
Tue Dec 23, 2025 - 4:29 pm ESTTue Dec 23, 2025 - 4:32 pm EST (LifeSiteNews) — The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California has rebuked the state for attempting to exclude parents from school decisions over…
Why Johnny Can’t Read
Reading and math scores are abysmal across the country, as national testing results keep documenting. Illiteracy rates are rising: The number of 16- to 24-year-olds reading at the lowest literacy levels increased from 16% in…
Tennessee man spent 37 days in jail for sharing an anti-Trump meme
In the aftermath of conservative activist Charlie Kirk's murder on September 10, his admirers were offended by online messages that denigrated him, condemned his views, and in some cases even celebrated his death. The…
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