Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch used a statement in a lawsuit over the Title 42 public health order to give a scathing overview of how civil liberties were trampled during the COVID-era — and the lessons that America could learn from it. “One lesson might be this: Fear and the desire for safety are powerful […]
Three Rhode Island teachers who were fired for refusing to be vaccinated against COVID-19 were offered their jobs back after a legal settlement. The Barrington School Committee reached a settlement with Brittany DiOrio, Stephanie Hines and Kerri Thurber to receive a payment of $33,333, a spokesperson for the school district announced Thursday in a May […]
Kansas’ governor and top state lawmakers were to meet Thursday to consider a proposed legal settlement between the state and the owner of a Wichita fitness studio forced to shut down during the first months of the coronavirus pandemic and then operate under restrictions. Approval of the settlement by Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly, six Republican […]
AFT President Randi Weingarten’s claims that she advocated to reopen schools during the COVID-19 pandemic were called out multiple times by fact-checkers using Twitter’s Community Notes feature, where users pointed to her old rhetoric warning against putting kids back in the classroom. “We worked together 3 years ago to get our kids back to in […]
COVID-19’s lasting impact on education can be seen in students from high school to grade school. Learning loss, social and emotional development and college acceptance standards have all changed since the early days of 2020. Just this past weekend, students across the country sat for the SAT exams, but during the COVID-19 pandemic, many schools […]