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Tag Archives: Education

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Johns Hopkins University now requires double masking despite 99% vax rate, booster and twice-weekly testing

Johns Hopkins University is requiring students to either wear two masks or wear an N-95 or KN-95 mask on campus during the spring semester despite nearly universal vaccination on campus and mandatory, twice-weekly testing.

January 19, 2022 in U.S..
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VISA update: Special ed services at independent schools may be postponed, bill seeks to block tax dollars to some religious schools

The requirement that special education services be provided at all approved independent schools accepting public funds may be postponed once again. Also, S.219 would prohibit tuitioning to any school not in compliance with federal and State antidiscrimination laws.

January 17, 2022 in Commentary.
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Stan Greer: Families are fed up with Big Labor-dominated schools

As of 2020, Big Labor wielded so-called “exclusive representation” control over 55% of all teachers and other public employees in the 25 states. The average share of unionized public servants for the other 25 states is 21%.

January 16, 2022 in Commentary.
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VISA update: Lawmakers review religious school public tuition, ‘explosive’ behavior problems, learning losses

Sen. Brian Campion said a majority of Senate members wish to ensure public dollars do not go to schools that discriminate. Also, kindergartners are demonstrating explosive behavior, and eighth graders are taking their social cues from Tik Tok. Ninth and tenth graders are showing increased substance use.

January 10, 2022 in Commentary.
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John Klar: How about more time off for public school teachers?

A Vermont school district has been mulling over a novel policy to give its teachers Wednesday afternoon off, to alleviate their COVID stress — extending a “Snowsports Program” for the remainder of the school year. Impacts on parents and children have been swept aside despite clear conflicts of interest.

January 3, 2022 in Commentary.
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John Klar: The dangers of gamification in education technologies

There is the potential for Education Technology (Ed Tech) to literally cause children to become addicted to the media developed to teach them. This is called “gamification.”

December 22, 2021 in Commentary.
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Burlington School Board moving forward with costly new high school despite PCB level controversy

The Burlington School Board is moving forward with plans for a new high school and technical center despite that decision being based on an apparent miscalculation by the Vermont Health Department regarding PCB safety levels in schools.

December 21, 2021 in TNR News.
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Scientists take a stand against ‘woke math’

One of the key aspects of the left-wing cultural revolution that’s taken over America’s most powerful institutions is how it injects its politics and ideology into literally everything. That includes science, and now math.

December 21, 2021 in Commentary.
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Stan Greer: Union bosses move to make minimal in-person instruction permanent

AFT President Randi Weingarten is preposterously warning that, unless school districts across the country cave in to Big Labor demands to slash the amount of time teachers have to spend in the classroom, they will quit en masse.

December 17, 2021 in Commentary.
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Woke culture provides safe haven for anti-Semitism on campus

We have never seen the far left hesitate to claim a people is facing discrimination, yet here it is fomenting that very discrimination itself. Why are Jewish students the exception?

December 17, 2021 in Commentary.
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Middlebury College vaccine ‘breakthrough’ cases make national headlines

Middlebury College is having an outbreak of COVID-19 cases even while its vaccination rate is reportedly 99 percent.

December 14, 2021 in TNR News.

VISA update: Weighting task force releases draft recommendations

Several recommendations for reform of the weighting process and of other elements of Vermont’s school finance system are in a recently released Task Force report to the General Assembly. Weighting determines equalized pupil counts by which Education Fund allocations to schools are determined.

December 13, 2021 in Commentary.

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