Homeschooling is growing at a record rate in North Carolina, according to reports. Over 10,000 more students are being homeschooled than just two years ago, with enrollment figures surpassing that of private schools. The News & Observer reports that the North Carolina Division of Non-Public Education estimates that there are 98,172 homeschooled students in North Carolina, compared […]
FREMONT, Calif. — A school district in California has voted to place the use of a health book that it had previously approved for ninth grade students on hold after outraged parents complained about the publication’s explicit sexual content. The Fremont Unified School Board voted 3-2 on Wednesday to pull the book Your Health Today published […]
LONDON – In an attempt to crack down on religious ‘extremism,’ Britain’s Education Secretary has announced that any schools that teach creation will be stripped of government funding. Nicky Morgan, Education Secretary of Great Britain, delivered a statement to Parliament late last month, in which she condemned the spread of religious views within British schools. […]
PINEVILLE, La. — A Christian college in Louisiana has won its legal challenge against the abortion pill mandate in Obamacare as a federal court ruled that the mandate overly-burdened the school’s right to religious freedom. As previously reported, Louisiana College in Pineville, Louisiana, which is part of the Southern Baptist Convention, filed suit against the Obama […]
GAINESVILLE, Ga. — Approximately 200 students at a Georgia high school and their parents gathered to pray on the football field Wednesday—with an even larger gathering on Thursday—in response to a letter from a national humanist organization that threatened possible legal action if the school’s coaches continue “promot[ing] Christianity.” As previously reported, the American Humanist Association (AHA) sent […]
GAINESVILLE, Ga. — A nationally-recognized humanist organization has threatened to file a lawsuit against a Georgia school district if it does not forbid football coaches at a local high school from “promot[ing] Christianity.” The American Humanist Association (AHA) sent a letter on Tuesday to the superintendent of Hall County Schools, the principal of Chestatee High […]
KOUNTZE, Texas — Cheerleaders in Texas have appealed a ruling finding a lawsuit against their local school district moot after it changed its policies surrounding the display of Bible banners during school sporting events. As previously reported, in Kountze, Texas, a tiny east-central Texas town with 2,000 residents, middle school and high school cheerleaders have […]
EVANSTON, Ill. — Northwestern University, a public institution in Illinois, has announced that it will offer ‘gender open’ restrooms to its students beginning this fall in order to be more accommodating to ‘transgender’ students. An announcement on the university’s website notes that the restrooms will be in the Norris University Center near the student organization offices […]
COLUMBIA, S.C. – A South Carolina education panel voted unanimously this week in favor of a measure that would allow teachers and students in public schools to critique evolution and discuss the assumptions underlying the theory. On Tuesday, a six-member panel of state education leaders met in Columbia to discuss South Carolina’s high school biology […]
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Students in an Ohio State University psychology class are being taught that atheists have higher IQs than Christians, according to a report from a college watchdog organization. Campus Reform notes that a question from a recent online psychology quiz from the university implied that religious beliefs were directly related to IQ levels. “Theo has an […]