The U.S. Justice Department is fighting in court against a German family that came to America to homeschool their children. Uwe and Hannelore Romeike fled to the United States in 2008 after German authorities demanded that they stop homeschooling their six children. Homeschooling was made illegal in the country in 1938 under the dictatorship of […]
New Haven, Connecticut — One of the oldest and most renown universities in America is considering joining the ranks of other learning institutions that provide insurance coverage for sex change surgeries. Yale University, located in New Haven, Connecticut, recently reported in its student publication Yale Daily News that the school is reviewing its insurance coverage policies regarding […]
Winter Park, Florida — A college in Florida recently shut down an informal Bible study being held by several students in a dorm room. According to reports, four students at Rollins College in Winter Park gathered together last week to read and study the Bible. However, when a hall assistant passed through the area and […]
Riverside, California — A prominent Christian university in California has been sued by a former student who was expelled for concealing their birth gender. In 2011, Domaine Javier, 25, checked “Catholic” and “female” on California Baptist University’s enrollment application, and was later accepted as a nursing student. However, when Javier appeared later that year on […]
Chicago, Illinois — The Chicago Board of Education has approved a proposed policy that requires that sexual education begin in kindergarten. ABC News reports that the sex ed overhaul passed Wednesday night in what is known as the third largest public school system in the country. “It is important that we provide students of all […]
Manhattan, New York — A video that went viral on the web this week captures a number of college students in New York City playing a game in which they pretend to kill each other’s unborn baby. The video shows male students in the Hunter College cafeteria jousting at each other with plastic forks as […]
Effingham County, Georgia — A middle school baseball coach in Georgia recently resigned after a parent complained to the principal that he had a Bible verse citation embroidered on the team ball caps. Kyle Houston serves as the physical education teacher at Ebenezer Middle School in Rincon. He also was the coach for the school’s […]
Columbus, Ohio — The Ohio Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday both for and against a former science teacher who was fired in 2011 for encouraging his students to challenge evolutionary theory. As previously reported, John Freshwater, a science teacher at Mount Vernon Middle School, had approached school officials in 2003 to request that he be […]
Richmond, Virginia — Legislators in Virginia have passed a law that seeks to protect the right of Christians and other religious groups on university and college campuses to create their own membership criteria and to elect as leaders only those of the same faith. The legislation, which was introduced by state Senator Mark Obenshain, a […]
Lumberton, Texas –– A Texas high school teacher is under investigation after she had some of her students dress in Islamic clothing during a lesson about Islam. The unnamed geography teacher at Lumberton High School allegedly brought Islamic outfits to school and had some of the girls dress in burqas for all in the class […]