Luis Sousa was ordered not to enter his children’s school after he spoke up at a school board meeting. Now, the father is taking the local Massachusetts school district to court.
Gov. Chris Sununu is seeking authority to tap into $9.8 million to provide grants to 231 public schools and 18 private schools to pay for installing security designs, such as electronic door locks, panic buzzers, high-tech cameras and specialized glass meant to slow down an active shooter.
Burlington voters have approved moving forward with construction of a new high school and technical center. Burlingtonians approved the $165 million bond measure, which passed with more than 75% of the votes.
A Vermont school district punished both 14-year-old Blake Allen and her father for stating that a biologically male student who identifies as a transgender girl is male. Now the Allens are suing the school district — and accusing it of retaliating against their family for speaking out.
Eliminating the use of standardized college admission tests to judge college applicants in order to increase diversity on campus is not working, according to an October report.
With children in school and parents out of school being censured, the free speech question extends to whether Americans have the right to even state that they believe there are only two biological genders. Existing law is clear that they do possess that fundamental liberty.
Students showed a decline in average scale scores compared to Vermont’s 2019 results. While it is fair to conclude that the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic are reflected in student performance, that explanation does not tell the whole story. Vermont students’ performance on NAEP has been generally declining for over a decade.
John Helfant is one of the volunteer coaches of the Randolph Union High School girls’ varsity soccer team. He said he has served as a police officer for 32 years and is the chief of police of the Northfield, Vermont, police department.
With the emergence of Outright Vermont as the newly self-proclaimed referee of what’s news and what’s not regarding trangenderism in Vermont schools, it’s worth looking at what role they play in Vermont schools and how — and how much — the organization is funded.
Powerful teacher union officials like Becky Pringle, president of the National Education Association (NEA), and Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT/AFL-CIO), routinely try to deflect criticism of their outrageous actions by labeling it as criticism of “teachers.”
Knowledge of gender ideology and active participation in government are part of the antidote against efforts to usurp parental authority. Parents are the experts of their children, not the State. Let’s keep it that way.
WCAX has withdrawn from its website the Sept. 30 news report that broke the story, News Director Roger Garrity confirmed Thursday night to Vermont Daily Chronicle. The story was not consigned to the digital memory hole due to factual inaccuracy. “We believe our story was accurate,” Garrity said.