27 Jan 2021
In a piece published at education site The 74 on the day of Biden’s inauguration, Mike Antonucci observed while teachers’ unions were continuing the narrative that “no one wants to reopen schools more than educators,” they “keep moving the goalposts.”
No one wants to reopen schools more than educators.
We love our students, our schools, our communities, and that is why the health and safety of our students, families and educators must be the primary driver of when it is safe for in-person instruction. https://t.co/iQVsACaYR2
“[F]or something that they say they want more than anyone, unions seem very committed to stalling for as long as possible,” he wrote. “’Not until it’s safe’ makes a good hashtag, but what do the unions consider to be safe? That’s where things get complicated and vague.”
New alliance unites seminaries, Christian colleges and schools amid ongoing struggles
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New alliance unites seminaries, Christian colleges and schools amid ongoing struggles
New alliance unites seminaries, Christian colleges and schools amid ongoing struggles
Representatives attend the International Alliance for Christian Education’s inaugural meeting at the Rosen Plaza Hotel in Orlando, Florida in February 2020. | International Alliance for Christian Education
Dozens of Christian colleges, high schools, seminaries and Bible colleges have banded together to form an alliance uniting all sectors of Christian education to address the mutual challenges they face in an increasingly secular culture.
Coronavirus Stimulus Package Specifically Blocks School Choice
23 Dec 2020
The 5,600-page coronavirus stimulus bill passed by Congress Monday evening specifically blocks governors from using emergency education relief funds for school choice programs.
Page 1,865 of the 5,600-page bill states under “Restrictions” for the use of the $2.75 billion allotted for the Governors Emergency Education Relief (GEER) fund, created in the earlier coronavirus relief bill in March:
Funds provided under this section shall not be used … (B) to provide or support vouchers, tuition tax credit programs, education savings accounts, scholarships, scholarship programs, or tuition-assistance programs for elementary or secondary education.
Eric Boehm wrote at Reason Tuesday the new restrictions on GEER funds come “seemingly in response to the fact that several governors used the first round of GEER funding to launch or expand school choice programs.”
Report: As promised, most Christian schools opened campuses in ‘20
Thursday, December 17, 2020 |
Michael F. Haverluck (OneNewsNow.com)
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Many public schools in America have remained closed since the COVID-19 outbreak in March. But a recent nationwide survey shows that nine of 10 Christian schools met parents’ and students’ needs and reopened as they promised this year.
In surveying more than 730 member schools across the U.S. in late November, the Association of Christian Schools International (ACSI) discovered a number of trends regarding enrollment, COVID-19 disruption, distance learning planning, and teacher well-being – all indicating that Christian schools are meeting needs like no others in their communities. It was the ACSI s third study on the pandemic.
Facing pressure from anti-LGBT groups, Minn. league tables trans-inclusive policy
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On Thursday morning, the Minnesota State High School League tabled a proposal that would provide guidance to schools on inclusion of transgender students in high school sports. The issue will be revisited on Dec. 4.
For two hours on Wednesday afternoon, and again on Thursday morning, supporters and opponents of transgender inclusion in high school sports took turns giving their input about the proposed policy.
Though the MSHSL announced last spring that is was researching transgender inclusion, the issue did not ignite until an anti-LGBT group placed a full page ad in the Star Tribune that painted transgender students as dangerous. The Minnesota Child Protection League placed the ad, and have been joined by the Minnesota Family Council and the Minnesota Catholic Conference two groups opposed to LGBT rights in organizing opposition to the policy.