Video showed Cecelia Benavides, a teaching assistant at Freedom Elementary School in Fairfax, Virginia, striking one disabled student and pushing a rolling chair into another. A public health attendant at the school kept a journal detailing numerous incidents in which Benavides and teacher Cylmeera Gastav abused disabled children under their charge, including hitting, dragging, and […]
A Michigan story getting a lot of attention for reasons you can probably figure out on your own is headlined: “10-year-old Grosse Pointe Park boy walked to school every day for 4 years.” The story adds: “He plans to keep the streak going.” It’s a real headline, a real kid, and a real indication of all […]
An Indiana couple has sued the state Department of Child Services, saying a case manager lied in court so that a 6-year-old boy would be removed from their home and placed with the boy’s biological father, with whom the case manager was having an affair. The suit said Sandra Sell lied in an affidavit claiming […]
Today is the tenth anniversary of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), a policy originally established by President Obama to protect children who were brought into the United States illegally. DACA allows such migrants (often referred to as “dreamers,” after the Dream Act, which has so far failed to pass Congress) to stay in the […]
Rapidly increasing housing costs over the last few months underscore the need for zoning reform. By breaking down regulatory barriers to new housing construction, we can greatly reduce the cost of housing and also enable large numbers of people to move to places where there are better job and educational opportunities. We can also empower […]
Finally! Long after lifting mask requirements in other settings, New York City has continued to require masks in schools and day cares for very young children. That madness will come to an end this week. Effective today, children ages 2 to 4 will no longer be forced to wear masks in schools or child care […]
In 2018, Nzinga Terrell-Brown was hired as a teacher’s aide: her dream job. But a couple months later, she was fired—and didn’t know why. She got another teacher’s aide job but was abruptly fired again. What was going on? As Scott Pham details in a thorough and jaw-dropping expose for Buzzfeed News, Terrell-Brown was listed on […]
After a gunman murdered 19 children and two adults at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, last week, politicians responded as they always do to such shocking crimes. Democrats pushed gun control policies ranging from the symbolic to the flagrantly irrelevant, while Republicans emphasized improvements to school security. On its face, “hardening” schools so they […]
“Present deadly physical force at one of our schools, we’re not waiting one second. We are going to kill you, ’cause you can’t kill evil enough,” declares Lee County, Florida, Sheriff Carmine Marceno, in a TikTok video, in front of a pack of gun-wielding deputies, while Journey’s “Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)” inexplicably serves as background […]