Neetu Chandak on January 15, 2019 The Los Angeles Unified School District’s (LAUSD) superintendent claims the first day of teacher strikes on Monday cost the district $25 million. LAUSD superintendent Austin Beutner got this number based on student attendance, which determines the district’s funding, and the number of people not at work, according to a Tuesday conference. “So,…
Neetu Chandak Education Secretary Betsy DeVos underwent surgery Thursday following a recent biking accident, a U.S. Department of Education (DOE) official confirmed. “Secretary DeVos underwent surgery yesterday to repair a broken bone suffered during a recent road biking accident,” Liz Hill, press secretary at the DOE, said to The Daily Caller News Foundation over email….
Tim Pearce Public education employees such as teachers and janitors are quitting jobs in record numbers, an uncommon trend in a profession that often rewards longevity, The Wall Street Journal reported. Many industries in the past year have seen a historically high rate of workers quitting. A tight labor market and sluggish wage growth are making job…
Neetu Chandak on November 3, 2018 A California high school music teacher was arrested Friday after he was caught on film fist-fighting with a student in class. Marston Riley, 40, was caught on video throwing punches at a Maywood Academy High School student as a female wearing a yellow vest tried to break…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Michael Bastasch GOP Texas Rep. Lamar Smith is demanding the Energy Department (DOE) turn over documents related to the agency paying for a government engineer’s law degree that was completely unrelated to his job. Smith wants to make sure more DOE employees aren’t having taxpayers foot the bill for college…
Written by Kerry McDonald Imagine if, at your workplace, you were constantly harassed, humiliated, and even physically attacked. You would probably dread going to work and call in sick often to avoid it. You may talk to your boss or someone in HR to see if the problem could be fixed. If it couldn’t, you…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: As many recognize, homeschooling has been booming in recent years and promises to keep growing. The most recent numbers from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) hail from 2012 and suggest that 1.8 million children are now educated at home. Compared to public school students, studies suggest that homeschoolers…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kody Fairfield As universities around the nation enter and complete graduation season, it is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore the left’s blatant hypocrisy surrounding intellectual diversity. Over and over you hear about commencement speakers warning of doomsday under President Donald Trump, or harping on about the need for “tolerance.”…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Richard Pollock Laureate Education, a for-profit education company that once paid former President Bill Clinton $17.5 million to serve as its “honorary chancellor,” posted a significant loss Thursday in its first earnings report after going public earlier this year. The Baltimore-based company reported a first quarter 2017 loss of $122…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Aidan Mattis After 2 years of planning and organizing, Milo Yiannopoulos has released first names and majors of the first winners of the “Privilege Grant,” a scholarship of $2,500 awarded exclusively to white men. The grant is a stipend for educational purposes, offered with the intention of putting white…