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Education News – October 10, 2016

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Analysis: There Still Isn’t a Teacher Shortage Again – By Mike Antonucci

The Learning Policy Institute released a report on teacher shortages last month, co-authored by Linda Darling-Hammond, that warned of a serious shortfall if current trends continued. At a forum accompanying the release, many heavy hitters in education policy agreed that something must be done.


Thousands of Bibles Will Show Up in Public Schools Soon and It’s Completely Legal – By BreakingChristianNews Staff

Since the 1962 landmark Supreme Court decision to remove prayer from public schools, Christians have fought to regain ground lost to political correctness.

More than 50 years after the ban on government endorsed prayer in school, one ministry is hoping to revisit the discussion by bringing the Bible back to schoolyards across America.

This Thursday, more than 300,000 students will let their light shine on their local campus though an initiative called “Bring Your Bible to School Day,” backed by Focus on the Family and Alliance Defending Freedom.


Coach Ramps Up Fight for Prayers On 50-yard Line – By Bob Unruh

NFL players are using the playing of the national anthem to promote a social agenda, and it’s already spread to college and high school athletes.

There have been no serious repercussions


Now CHRISTIAN Schools Banned from Prayer – By Bill Korach

Last December the Florida High School Athletic Association refused to allow a private Christian school to deliver a pregame prayer over a loudspeaker before a championship football game. Now Cambridge Christian School in Tampa is fighting back in court.


Charters Under Attack – By Larry Sand

California’s teachers unions go on the offensive against the state’s alternative public schools.

For years, teachers’ unions have tried to kill charter schools—but only on odd-numbered days. On even-numbered days, they tried to organize them. Things lately have become very odd, at least in California; the unions are in full-assault mode.