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What would education’s omission as a ‘professional degree’ mean? The field reportedly didn’t make the cut in a proposal under consideration by the Education Department regarding federal loan limits for graduate students.

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The Phoenix Declaration’s Serenade of Dog Whistles | Pierre Tristam | FlaglerLive The Heritage Foundation’s “Phoenix” doctrine, recently adopted by Florida, is a Christian nationalist manifesto designed to eradicate educational dissent. It prioritizes “parental omnipotence” over ch...

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06.12.2025 16:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The D 49 Board of Education Meeting - The New Falcon Herald D 49 Board of Education meeting wrap-up

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06.12.2025 16:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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After 4-4 Supreme Court Case, More States Jump on Religious Charter Bandwagon In addition to plans for a Jewish charter school in Oklahoma, Tennessee’s attorney general has argued in favor of a Christian charter there.

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06.12.2025 16:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Meet the billionaire pushing taxpayer-funded school vouchers How one of the richest people on the planet presses his pet issue: school choice

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05.12.2025 23:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Sad

05.12.2025 22:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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'We cannot survive' | Indiana school leaders fear looming budget crisis after property tax reform A new survey of superintendents found more than 95% expect this year's property tax changes to hurt their budgets this year.

Indiana education leaders fear property tax reform could lead to school budget crisis.

05.12.2025 22:03 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

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Former spokesperson accuses Denver Public Schools of discrimination in lawsuit The district says it's "confident in its position."

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05.12.2025 22:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Commentary: Florida’s new civics curriculum limits parents’ rights This is state-imposed ideology, and it limits the rights of the vast majority of Florida parents who simply want the truth taught in classrooms.

www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/12/05/c...

05.12.2025 22:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Grew up in Indiana, wow

05.12.2025 21:21 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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EXCLUSIVE: Lawmaker Seeks to Prevent Colleges From Discriminating Against Homeschoolers Rep. Mark Harris, R-N.C., introduces a bill to ensure homeschoolers aren't discriminated against in college admissions.

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05.12.2025 21:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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How Trump 2.0 Upended Education Research and Statistics in One Year Decades of carefully built infrastructure aimed at improving and tracking how American children learn vanished in an ideological attack

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05.12.2025 20:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Texas education board debates narrowing focus of history curriculum In September, the board adopted a plan that emphasizes Texas and U.S. history, while reducing focus on world history and cultures.

Look at the Texas Social Studies advisors

www.kvue.com/article/news...

05.12.2025 19:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

In Colorado we have found that it is much more than PragerU. In 2022 the CO SBOE voted against Civcs Alliances American Birthright Standards. One CO school district Woodland park did adopt those standards. School Boards for Academic Excellence has Stare partner that support right wing history

05.12.2025 19:14 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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LA Parents say school-issued iPads are causing chaos with their kids A growing contingent of public school parents say school-mandated iPads, particularly in elementary and middle schools, are leading to behavior problems.

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05.12.2025 18:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Colorado families push back against sudden closure of St. Louis Catholic School After St. Louis Catholic School in Louisville announced it would be closing its doors at the end of this year, some Colorado parents are appealing their concerns to the Vatican to try and keep it open...

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05.12.2025 17:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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New $6M center at CSU to expand state’s behavioral-health workforce – BizWest Colorado State University has received a two-year, $6 million investment from the state to create a center that is designed to expand Colorado’s behavioral-health workforce.

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05.12.2025 17:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Colorado governor plans to opt into Trump-endorsed initiative that some fear will lead to voucher program The federal program would dole out scholarships to both public and private school students through donations from taxpayers in exchange for federal tax credits

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05.12.2025 16:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Idaho Just Learned What Happens Without Guardrails. Vouchers Would Make It Worse. Idaho Home Learning Academy ranks in the bottom half of Idaho schools.

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05.12.2025 04:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A School District Almost Had to Close Mid-Year. What Happened? A school district's close call with financial despair offers a reminder that school funding is perennially precarious.

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05.12.2025 03:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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05.12.2025 03:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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What is Heritage's "Phoenix Declaration"? And which states are likely to sign on next?

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05.12.2025 03:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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As the job market tightens, workers without degrees could hit a ‘paper ceiling’ States and companies have shed degree requirements for jobs, but evidence of actual hires of those without a bachelor’s is scant.

In fact, Colorado’s state government was looking for workers just like her. In 2022, Gov. Jared Polis signed an executive order directing state agencies to embrace “skills-based hiring”
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05.12.2025 02:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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D11 Board of Directors election recount finalized (COLORADO SPRINGS) — The automatic recount for the Colorado Springs School District 11 Board of Directors is complete, and results are final. An automatic recount was triggered in November after th…

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05.12.2025 02:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Inquiry-based OR Direct-Instruction? Please don’t pick a side. Why we need and should love a good mix of both!

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05.12.2025 01:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Early Grade Retention Harms Adult Earnings (Forthcoming Article) - This paper provides new causal evidence on the effects of grade retention on educational attainment, behavioral outcomes, and labor market performance by analyzing Texas’s read...

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05.12.2025 00:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Texas education board debates narrowing focus of history curriculum In September, the board adopted a plan that emphasizes Texas and U.S. history, while reducing focus on world history and cultures.

www.kvue.com/article/news...

04.12.2025 23:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Thompson School Board swears in new members, elects Boyd president The Thompson School Board swore in its two new members and elected longtime board member Stu Boyd as president, among other officer roles, during a special meeting Wednesday evening.

www.reporterherald.com/2025/12/04/t...

04.12.2025 23:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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GOP bill seeks to fire teachers who affirm trans students even if parents are okay with it - LGBTQ Nation "I'm not going to listen to doctors," the bill's sponsor said.

www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/12/gop-...

04.12.2025 21:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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