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Education News – August 15, 2016

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NC School District: Can’t Say Boys or Girls
By wkorach/The Report Card

In a policy presentation to principals and counselors, the Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools system in North Carolina recommended that students not be called boys or girls, but the gender-neutral scholars or students.


How to Respond to the “After School Satan Clubs”
By Travis Weber

As has been widely reported the last several weeks, a group called the “Satanic Temple” is looking to set up “After School Satan Clubs” (ASSC) in public schools around the country. What should we think of this, and how should we respond?


NAACP: Now Advocating Against Colored People
By Larry Sand

The once righteous civil rights organization is now in thrall to the teachers unions.

From the horrors of lynching to the injustice of forced school segregation, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has been there fighting for the rights of black people. But that has changed, at least in the realm of education.


Charters Drive NY Public School Score Gains
By wkorach/The Report Card

Mayor Bill de Blasio is touting a huge improvement in New York City student test scores this year as evidence that his progressive policies are succeeding. “I can’t stop smiling,” gushed schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña. Their dirty little secret is that charter schools are driving the city’s academic progress.


Fee, Fi, Fo, Fum: The Latest in Transanity
By Dr Brown

From trans-specific pronouns to no more “boys and girls,” Dr. Brown confronts the latest social madness in our children’s schools.


Supreme Court Blocks School Girl from Using Boys Room
By wkorach/The Report Card

The U.S. Supreme Court surprised some observers by stepping in the middle of a bathroom battle involving a transgender teen in Virginia, with an emergency order to keep him out of the boys’ room at his high school.