1+ hour, 7+ min ago (220+ words) Klaus Vedfelt via Getty Images Jaryn Crouson is a reporter for the Daily Caller News Foundation. DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION'Minnesota's largest teachers union is under fire this week over its "professional development" courses on topics such as "Interrupting Whiteness" and "LGBTQ+ Training." The website also names "the murder of George Floyd" and "attacks on honesty in education" as hardships the group is fighting against. Education Minnesota's programs are part of the "Facing Inequities and Racism in Education" (FIRE) series, designed to "disrupt systemic racism and racial inequities in Minnesota's education system." The union operates a "Racial Equity Advocate network" and offers "Equity EdCamps." Education Minnesota did not respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation's request for comment. Meanwhile,more than halfof 4th-grade students in Minnesota tested below the national proficiency standard in 2024. About 66% of 8th-grade students tested below proficient in…...

1+ hour, 9+ min ago (220+ words) Klaus Vedfelt via Getty Images Jaryn Crouson is a reporter for the Daily Caller News Foundation. DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION'Minnesota's largest teachers union is under fire this week over its "professional development" courses on topics such as "Interrupting Whiteness" and "LGBTQ+ Training." The website also names "the murder of George Floyd" and "attacks on honesty in education" as hardships the group is fighting against. Education Minnesota's programs are part of the "Facing Inequities and Racism in Education" (FIRE) series, designed to "disrupt systemic racism and racial inequities in Minnesota's education system." The union operates a "Racial Equity Advocate network" and offers "Equity EdCamps." Education Minnesota did not respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation's request for comment. Meanwhile,more than halfof 4th-grade students in Minnesota tested below the national proficiency standard in 2024. About 66% of 8th-grade students tested below proficient in…...

2+ day, 9+ hour ago (945+ words) President Donald Trump signs an executive order on Jan. 30. (Chip Somodevilla via Getty Image) The Department of Education may soon be closing shop, but that doesn't mean the Trump administration's attempt to course-correct higher education in America is finished. Given that it is over a year since the American people elected President Donald Trump, it's a good time to review how his administration has done on one of its most important tasks: cure elite institutions, higher education particularly, of the diversity, equity, and inclusion madness. Given how central these programs have become to elite universities, it's no surprise they haven't abandoned them without a fight. There is still a huge amount of work to be done. But several departments in the Trump administration have been relentless in trying to remove this destructive and illegal doctrine from our schools. Here are…...

2+ day, 9+ hour ago (945+ words) President Donald Trump signs an executive order on Jan. 30. (Chip Somodevilla via Getty Image) The Department of Education may soon be closing shop, but that doesn't mean the Trump administration's attempt to course-correct higher education in America is finished. Given that it is over a year since the American people elected President Donald Trump, it's a good time to review how his administration has done on one of its most important tasks: cure elite institutions, higher education particularly, of the diversity, equity, and inclusion madness. Given how central these programs have become to elite universities, it's no surprise they haven't abandoned them without a fight. There is still a huge amount of work to be done. But several departments in the Trump administration have been relentless in trying to remove this destructive and illegal doctrine from our schools. Here are…...

6+ day, 4+ hour ago (506+ words) House Education and Workforce Committee Chairman Tim Walberg (Andrew Harnik via Getty Images) Rachel Greszler is a senior research fellow in workforce and public finance in the Thomas A. Roe Institute for economic policy studies at The Heritage Foundation. Read her research. On Thursday, the House Education and Workforce Committee passed three bills to boost flexibility, wages, and efficiency for workers. The second bill, H.R. 2312, is the Tipped Employee Protection Act. In general, the FLSA allows for lower base wages for tipped employees, but their total wages'including their base pay plus tips'must meet or exceed the minimum wage. Problems have arisen as different administrations and different courts have come to different interpretations of who qualifies as a tipped worker. Moreover, the Biden administration imposed an unreasonable'if not impossible'tipped minimum wage rule that required employers to separate tipped workers" activities into three different…...

6+ day, 4+ hour ago (506+ words) House Education and Workforce Committee Chairman Tim Walberg (Andrew Harnik via Getty Images) Rachel Greszler is a senior research fellow in workforce and public finance in the Thomas A. Roe Institute for economic policy studies at The Heritage Foundation. Read her research. On Thursday, the House Education and Workforce Committee passed three bills to boost flexibility, wages, and efficiency for workers. The second bill, H.R. 2312, is the Tipped Employee Protection Act. In general, the FLSA allows for lower base wages for tipped employees, but their total wages'including their base pay plus tips'must meet or exceed the minimum wage. Problems have arisen as different administrations and different courts have come to different interpretations of who qualifies as a tipped worker. Moreover, the Biden administration imposed an unreasonable'if not impossible'tipped minimum wage rule that required employers to separate tipped workers" activities into three different…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago (333+ words) FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL'The Department of Education is closing its in-house health clinic which cost almost $500,000 per year to operate while only serving patients two hours per day. The move will save $27,631 in the remainder of fiscal year 2025. Closing the clinic will save another $424,631 for fiscal year 2026, according to the agency. The clinic's mission was to provide "occupational health services to improve the health, safety, and productivity of the federal workforce." The clinic provided only 267 services to a total of 60 patients in 2024, with cost of $1430.71 per service, the department says. The office was only open between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. Over the counter prescriptions could not be provided, and charges were made per individual health service, like administering a flu vaccine, giving instructions about the vaccine, taking blood pressure, using the scale, providing "assessment and evaluation." On the vast majority of days,…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago (333+ words) FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL'The Department of Education is closing its in-house health clinic which cost almost $500,000 per year to operate while only serving patients two hours per day. The move will save $27,631 in the remainder of fiscal year 2025. Closing the clinic will save another $424,631 for fiscal year 2026, according to the agency. The clinic's mission was to provide "occupational health services to improve the health, safety, and productivity of the federal workforce." The clinic provided only 267 services to a total of 60 patients in 2024, with cost of $1430.71 per service, the department says. The office was only open between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. Over the counter prescriptions could not be provided, and charges were made per individual health service, like administering a flu vaccine, giving instructions about the vaccine, taking blood pressure, using the scale, providing "assessment and evaluation." On the vast majority of days,…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago (157+ words) As is often the case, you have to watch the'videos'to really get a true picture of what happened at University of California, Berkeley on Nov.... Apathetic Administrators Are Endangering Much More Than Free Speech on Campus Berkeley police arrest a protester outside of a Turning Point USA event at the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) on November 10, 2025. (Justin Sullivan via Getty Images) As is often the case, you have to watch the videos to really get a true picture of what happened at University of California, Berkeley on Nov. 10. In the days that have transpired since the event, many newspaper accounts have made it sound like a tempest in a teapot, as if a couple of hotheads disrupted the otherwise quiet, if intense, protests at a Turning Point USA event on campus. We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago (414+ words) As is often the case, you have to watch the'videos'to really get a true picture of what happened at University of California, Berkeley on Nov.... Read More The post Apathetic Administrators Are Endangering Much More Than Free Speech on Campus appeared first on The Daily Signal. As is often the case, you have to watch the videos to really get a true picture of what happened at University of California, Berkeley on Nov. 10. In the days that have transpired since the event, many newspaper accounts have made it sound like a tempest in a teapot, as if a couple of hotheads disrupted the otherwise quiet, if intense, protests at a Turning Point USA event on campus.No. The videos reveal, in fact, a slew of violence: smoke bombs and glass bottles flying, fights breaking out, angry students pushing back on…...