California Requires LGBT Indoctrination on America’s Youth

September 30, 2016, 6:30 am

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From the AFA Journal:

…In California, a 2011 law required that LGBT content be included in social studies and history curriculum. The new material is being introduced to students as young as second graders this fall. In Washington state, students beginning in kindergarten will be taught about “the many ways to express gender” starting in fall of 2017.

“Small states don’t have the option of customizing their textbooks; they have to choose what the big states choose, ” said Brad Dacus of Pacific Justice Institute. “So this will impact school districts in other states around the country.”

Meanwhile, where gender studies are not mandated in the classroom, a web series called “Queer Kids Stuff” is intended to reach preschool audiences.

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UCLA Holds Inclusive Language Workshop for Freshmen Students

October 4, 2016, 5:30 am

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More political correctness over at UCLA:

A UCLA event that was heavily encouraged for first-year students suggested that black students may fall victim to police brutality and told students to make sure they use inclusive language.

“Welcome to Bruin Life Show,” a two-hour “spoken word, dance, music, and theater” event for first-year students co sponsored by UCLA Student Affairs and the Art and Global Health Center.

The Facebook page describing the event describes the show as “an event highlighting the real experiences of our current students and alumni in relation to the issues of diversity, identity, and social justice.”

School Choice Extension Bill Blocked by California Democratic Assemblywoman

October 16, 2016, 5:01 am

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California lawmakers are looking at whether to extend the school choice program an additional five years, but one lawmaker is taking a stand against it:

California Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez (D-San Diego) has halted extension of the state’s 22-year-old school “District of Choice” (DOC) program, set to expire at the end of the 2016–17 school year.

DOC is a school choice program that allows students to cross district boundaries and enroll in any of 47 participating school districts without a transfer agreement from their home district. The program serves about 10,000 students across the state. The California Legislative Analyst’s Office (CLAO) issued a study about the program earlier in 2016. In its report, CLAO said the DOC program “provides transfer students with additional educational options,”and “transfer students have varied demographic backgrounds.”

California School District Tells Parents that Homeschooling is Illegal

October 18, 2016, 5:00 am

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From School Reform News:

School authorities in California sent a letter to homeschool parents telling them homeschooling is illegal, which is not true.

The Homeschool Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) reports all of its members in the San Benito High School District (SBHSD) received a letter in July from SBHSD officials that read in part, “[U]nder California Law, a home school is not a private school, nor is it a lawful alternative to public school.”

California law requires parents withdrawing their child from public school in favor of homeschooling receive a private school exemption. Parents can establish their homeschools as private schools by filing an affidavit with the Superintendent of Public Instruction of California.

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Los Angeles Unified School District Looking at Making School Choice Easier

October 19, 2016, 5:30 am

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Great news for the much-beleaguered LA Unified School District, their students and parents:

Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) Superintendent Michelle King says the district has been working to make it easier for parents to access LAUSD public school choice programs.

LAUSD’s enrollment has been declining for a decade. The district, which enrolls approximately 514,000 students, is projected to lose 13,000 students this year. Southern California Public Radio (SCPR) reports LAUSD’s school choice programs, including charter schools, language immersion schools, magnet programs, and transfer and open-enrollment policies, have been growing in popularity.

“In 2013–14, more than 135,000 students exercised school choice; that’s roughly one out of every four students in the L.A. Unified that year,” SCPR reported.

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Star Parker: Left-Wing Politics on Abortion are a Higher Priority than Knowledge at America’s Colleges

October 21, 2016, 6:02 am

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Star Parker doesn’t hold back any punches for the left-wing universities and how they hide the truth behind abortions and how it affects the black American community:

I can address the issue of freedom of speech on campuses from firsthand experience. I have been canceled, obstructed, and, on more than one occasion, hecklers have tried to shout me down.

What I find distressing today is that the situation is getting worse.

The theme is consistent. It is the left, operating under the pretense of fairness and freedom, that is the force of obstruction and intimidation. It is the left that works, usually starting from the office of the sympathetic president, to shut down dissent and alternative points of view.

I was invited this week to speak at the Young Americans for Freedom organization on the campus of California State University, Los Angeles. The topic: “Abortion: Planned Parenthood’s War Against the Poor.”

As soon as posters appeared on campus advertising the event, left-wing students ripped them off the walls and replaced them with pro-abortion, pro-Planned Parenthood advertisements.

California Student Senate Passed Resolution for University to Give Scholarship Preference to Refugees

October 31, 2016, 6:00 am

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From Campus Reform:

Refined Right reports that the Student Senate passed a resolution Tuesday recommending that the university offer reserved spots and scholarships for displaced Syrian refugees looking to attend the university. Details regarding the cost of the preferential treatment would be released at the end of each academic year.

The resolution, called R52-12, was introduced by student senator Zeina Mousa, passed unanimously, and is currently awaiting approval from the Senate Advocacy Committee, which would then pass it along to the administration.

UC-Merced Students Want Campus Police Disarmed

November 6, 2016, 4:00 am

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Huh? Why would you do that? Wouldn’t disarming the campus police make the campus LESS safe?

A group of students at the University of California Merced is calling for the campus police force to be disarmed, declaring officers’ presence “harmful to the campus climate.”

More than 300 students in the country illegally are enrolled at the University of California Merced, and only about 13 percent of its student population is white, the rest are students of color.

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Graduate Student at UCSB a Target of the Left after Posting Objection to Sanctuary Campus Rhetoric

December 2, 2016, 4:32 am

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It may seem like a lot of he-said-she-said accusations from both sides, but it still should be investigated whether the graduate student’s friend was hit by an anti-Trump mob, his pro-Trump hat was stolen and his American flagpole bent out of shape. In response, he posted a Facebook status blasting California-Santa Barbara’s illegal immigrant services program, called “Undocumented Student Services.”

That Facebook response led to some outcry on the college campus.

College Student Threatened with Expulsion after Recording Professor’s Anti-Trump Rant

December 16, 2016, 4:32 am

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From CBS LA:

A college professor went off on president-elect Donald Trump in her Orange Coast College class.

There are now threats of expulsion and threats of legal action.

CBS2’s Stacey Butler listened to the controversial rant. The human sexuality teacher — Olga Perez Stable Cox — called Trump’s election “an act of terrorism.”

“Our nation is divided. We have been assaulted. It is an act of terrorism,” she told the students.

The “Never Trump” Left: Making America Hate Again

December 19, 2016, 6:09 am

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The Left is livid and distraught over the Election Day victory of Donald Trump and has resorted to reporting incidents to blame Trump supporters. However, the problem is that many of them have been debunked as hoaxes.

For example, Yasmin Seweid accused New York City subway riders of not coming to her aid when Trump supporters harassed her. She later admitted she made it up to not get in trouble for violating curfew.

On college campuses, here are some Trumped-up hate crimes which have since their first reporting been verified to be false:

• At North Park University in Chicago, Illinois, a student is no longer enrolled at that university when administrators found out that she lied about a Trump supporter who allegedly wrote her a homophobic e-mail.

• An anti-Latino whiteboard message that said, “Bye Bye Latinos Hasta La Vista” was actually written as a joke by a Latino at Elon University in North Carolina.

• A University of South Florida student was arrested for falsely reporting a robbery by Trump supporters.

• A Villanova University student wouldn’t cooperate with police after claiming she was attacked by two white male Trump supporters. The university said that the student did not want to pursue the matter.

Meanwhile:

• A teenager in Maryland who wore a Trump ‘Make America Great Again’ hat was beaten up by a group of teenagers protesting Donald Trump’s election victory.

• A California high school student was beaten up for saying positive remarks about Donald Trump on Instagram.

• The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) omitted 2,000 anti-white incidents in their report that claimed anti-minority rhetoric and violence emerged after Donald Trump’s election victory.

Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo Student Government Endorses Full-Time Staffer to Help Illegal Immigrant Students

December 23, 2016, 4:32 am

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From Campus Reform:

The California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo student government (ASI) unanimously endorsed plans to fund a full-time staff position to oversee a “safe space” for undocumented students on campus.

Currently, illegal immigrant students are helped by a full-time volunteer at the school’s DREAM Center, but funding for that runs out in July, and the volunteer does not have access to the Cal Poly staff training afforded to full-time staff members.

Cal State-Long Beach ‘Teach In’ claimed President Trump has Fascist Tendencies

March 1, 2017, 4:33 am

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From The College Fix:

President Donald Trump has fascist tendencies, is a misogynist, and his election victory has brought changes “not for the better,” several Cal State Long Beach professors told students Wednesday during a lunchtime teach-in on the campus quad.

The remarks came during “Fascism: Past and Present,” the second of four “Reclaiming Democracy” teach-ins organized by College of Liberal Arts faculty members “concerned about developments before and after the November election,” said Teresa Wright, chair of the Political Science department.

Berkeley Students to Hold Event on Milo and the Freedom of Speech

March 13, 2017, 5:35 am

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After the riots and damages at Cal-Berkeley and the discussions about free speech at Berkeley, the Students for Liberty and Cal Libertarians will hold an event to discuss free speech and its importance this coming week:

Berkeley, CA— Students For Liberty in cooperation with Cal Libertarians is hosting libertarian personality Dr. Tom Palmer at UC Berkeley to provide an alternative narrative in the free speech dichotomy. Dr. Palmer is the Executive Vice President of the Atlas Network, a global network connecting over 450 free market think tanks in over 90 countries to the ideas and resources needed to advance libertarianism.

The event titled “Milo, Trump, and the Assault on Free Speech” will be hosted on Tuesday, March 14th at 4:30 PM at UC Berkeley Campus in the Moffitt Library Room 101.

“Free speech is the foundation of open societies, which are themselves the foundation for economic and social progress.  Intimidation and violence are threats to more than just this or that speaker, with whom one may agree or disagree — they are threats to all of us,” said Dr. Tom Palmer.

While Milo Yiannopoulos, Donald Trump, and others who fear-monger use divisive tactics, we firmly believe that they have the inalienable right to speak their mind and remain unharmed same as anyone else. Many of their ideas which wrongly seek to curtail individual liberty and further expand the powers of an authoritarian government must be countered not with destructive actions, but with well-reasoned arguments.

Student organizer Alexandra Tran said, “The way to respond to hateful speech is not with violence but with compassionate and accurate speech. When you physically attack others for believing differently than you they do not change their mind. Their beliefs only become stronger. If we want to rid the world of racism, xenophobia, Islamophobia, and fear of people who are different, we must teach others why those beliefs are wrong, rather than seek to shut down the debate.  As Desmond Tutu said, ‘Don’t raise your fist. Improve your argument.’”

Students For Liberty invites others of every political ideology, from progressive to conservative to libertarian, to attend the event. You can RSVP on Facebook.

Harvard Study: Minimum Wage Hike Forcing Businesses to Close

April 24, 2017, 4:31 am

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A Harvard Business School study found out that San Francisco’s minimum wage hike is forcing businesses to go out of business before it is fully implemented. Here’s an excerpt from the study, per the Washington Examiner:

“We provide suggestive evidence that higher minimum wage increases overall exit rates among restaurants, where a $1 increase in the minimum wage leads to approximately a 4 to 10 percent increase in the likelihood of exit,” report Dara Lee and Michael Luca, authors of “Survival of the Fittest: The Impact of the Minimum Wage on Firm Exit.” The study used as a case study San Francisco, which has an estimated 6,000 restaurants in the Bay Area and is ratcheting up its minimum wage. Restaurants are one of the largest employers of minimum wage workers.

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Thomas Aquinas College Acquires Property in Massachusetts

May 8, 2017, 4:30 am

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The California-based Thomas Aquinas College now has a property in Northfield, Massachusetts, thanks to a donation by the National Christian Foundation (NCF). Thomas Aquinas College, in their press release, noted that the opening of their Massachusetts campus relies on the approval of the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education. The college plans on opening the Massachusetts campus in the fall of 2018.

The Northfield property was the site of a secondary school, until the school moved to a different location. Per the press release, the property was run by evangelist Dwight Moody:

“Dwight Lyman Moody established the Northfield School in 1879. In 1971 it merged with another institution that Mr. Moody had founded, the Mount Hermon School for Boys, in the nearby town of Gill. The resulting coeducational institution, Northfield Mount Hermon, operated on both properties until consolidating to the Mount Hermon campus in 2005.”

The NCF purchased the site for the sole purpose of donating it to a Christian institution and went through 153 applicants before choosing Thomas Aquinas College. The site spans 100 acres, including a chapel, residence halls, a library, gymnasium and both classrooms and administrative space (a total of 20 buildings). The Moody Center, “a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving Mr. Moody’s evangelical legacy,” will share the property.

This move will allow Thomas Aquinas College to open a second campus, which has been on the minds of their administrators, and will allow both campuses to keep enrollment numbers low as small liberal arts colleges.

 

California Attorney General says No to Investigating California University’s Secret Fund

May 22, 2017, 4:31 am

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Xavier Becerra, a Democrat, is the new attorney general for the state of California and he declined to investigate a discovery from an audit where the University of California system has a secret fund of $175 million.

Who leads the university system? Former Obama cabinet official Janet Napolitano.

School Choice Advocates Win School Board Election in Los Angeles

May 24, 2017, 4:32 am

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Los Angeles, California, a city that has been solidly blue (i.e. voted Democrat in elections) for a good while, saw its school board elections end with pro-school choice advocates taking spots on the board. The new officials are not Republicans, but want to take lessons from charter schools and improve Los Angeles’ public schools.

California State Travel Ban could Affect College Athletics

June 27, 2017, 4:31 am

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As Campus Reform noted, California’s expanded travel ban would apply to state college athletics. The list, started by previous state attorney general (now U.S. Senator) Kamala Harris, has been expanded by successor Xavier Becerra to the following states:

• Texas
• Alabama
• South Dakota
• Kentucky

University Looks for Professor to Teach Shakespeare with a Side of Social Justice

July 20, 2017, 4:31 am

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From The College Fix:

California State University East Bay seeks to hire an assistant professor of English who has an eye toward “diversity” while teaching renaissance and medieval literature, with a special emphasis on Shakespeare, according to a recent job posting.

“Candidates must demonstrate awareness of innovative pedagogy and issues of diversity and social justice, as well as evidence of teaching effectiveness,” states the listing, posted earlier this month. “Candidates who bring global approaches to their teaching and scholarship are preferred. Candidates who engage with issues of race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality in their teaching and scholarship are preferred.”