California | November 14, 2021
California Community College Overrun With ‘Fake Students, Bots’: Whistleblower
California | November 14, 2021
In the wake of the transition to online training due to the COVID-19 pandemic, California community colleges have become overrun with “fake students, bots” and allegations of financial aid fraud.
Kim Rich is a professor of criminal justice and the department chair for Political Science, Administration of Justice, Economics, and Chicano Studies at Los Angeles Pierce College in Woodland Hills, California. Between 2008 and 2010, Rich worked as a professor on a part-time basis. She has been employed on a full-time basis since 2010. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit in March of 2020, Rich was tasked as a distance education specialist to help train faculty in the transition to online classes. That gave Rich greater access to student enrollment information than other faculty members… (Excerpts from the Epoch Times)
California | October 6, 2021
UCLA Professor Who Refused to Lower Grading Standards for Black Students Files Lawsuit Against UC System Over Lost Income
California | October 6, 2021
In the aftermath of George Floyd’s death in 2020, a white student asked a professor to lower grading standards on the final exam for black students because of the “unjust murders of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor and George Floyd.”
Accounting professor Gordon Klein thought this would be demeaning to black students.
“Shocked by the student’s email, which struck me as deeply patronizing and offensive to the same black students he claimed to care so much about,” Klein wrote, “I collected my thoughts and, 20 minutes later, emailed back: ‘Are there any students that may be of mixed parentage, such as half black half-Asian? What do you suggest I do with respect to them? A full concession or just half? Also, do you have any idea if any students are from Minneapolis? I assume that they are probably especially devastated as well. I am thinking that a white student from there might possibly be even more devastated by this, especially because some might think that they’re racist even if they are not.’”
Klein said that he cited Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, in which he hoped his children would be judged by the content of their character and not by their skin color…. (Excerpts from Black Community News)
California, District of Columbia, Massachusetts | September 17, 2021
Cancel culture hits hardest at nation’s highest-ranked colleges
California, District of Columbia, Massachusetts | September 17, 2021
Over the past six years, one of the worst places to be, in terms of getting targeted, punished or canceled for what you say, has been on campus at an elite American college.
Over the past six years, one of the worst places to be, in terms of getting targeted, punished or canceled for what you say, has been on campus at an elite American college.
A recent survey by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) found since 2015, Stanford University has had the most incidents of scholars being targeted by “triggered” complainants, with 18 reported on the school’s California campus, twice as many as reported at Harvard, UCLA and Georgetown.
All told, the Ivy League accounted for half of the six worst campuses for scholar targeting, as the University of Pennsylvania and Yale ranked next on the list, according to FIRE’s tally of more than 400 targeting incidents that have occurred since 2015… (Excerpts from the Washington Times)
California | September 7, 2021
California Requires Aztec Prayer in Schools, and Civil Rights Group Sues
California | September 7, 2021
Parents and a civil rights group are suing California over its imposition earlier this year of a novel public school curriculum that reportedly has students praying to Aztec gods.
“The curriculum’s unequivocal promotion of five Aztec gods or deities through repetitive chanting and affirmation of their symbolic principles constitutes an unlawful government preference toward a particular religious practice,” Frank Xu, president of Californians for Equal Rights Foundation, said in a statement.
“This public endorsement of the Aztec religion fundamentally erodes equal education rights and irresponsibly glorifies anthropomorphic, male deities whose religious rituals involved gruesome human sacrifice and human dismemberment.”.. (Excerpts from the Epoch Times)
California | June 17, 2021
Teacher Shares Behind-Scenes Look at How Unions Further Woke Agenda
California | June 17, 2021
California teacher Brenda Lebsack says she began seeing “red flags” in her school district when she decided to become more involved with her union, the California Teachers Association.
After she began attending the union’s conferences in 2015, Lebsack says, she was alarmed to see that many of the topics weren’t academic but instead focused on social justice, human rights, and LGBTQ issues.
“I thought, wow, my union does not seem to care that much about academics as much as they do the political side of things,” Lebsack told The Daily Signal in a phone interview.
A teacher since 1987, Lebsack has taught a variety of grade levels and subjects. She currently is a physical education teacher for special education students in several elementary schools in the Santa Ana Unified School District, about 35 miles south of Los Angeles.
In an effort to educate parents on what is happening in schools across America, Lebsack founded the website Brenda4Kids, which offers videos, articles, and other resources designed to “pull back the curtain on what’s really going on in public education.”
Lebsack encourages parents to get involved and find out what is happening in their children’s school district.
In states such as California, unions and lawmakers are “removing more and more local control,” she says. “And they are removing parent rights.”
Lebsack became active in her teachers union only after her own children were grown and out of the house, Lebsack says. Despite the California Teachers Association’s focus on political issues, she decided she would attend some of the union’s conferences…
(Excerpts from the Virginia Star)
California | June 7, 2021
Los Angeles Teachers Union to Vote on Endorsing Anti-Israel BDS Movement
California | June 7, 2021
The leadership of the United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) is expected to vote in September on a resolution to stop US aid to Israel and endorse the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement against “apartheid in Israel.”
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) calls the BDS movement antisemitic, saying that “advocates employ antisemitic rhetoric and narratives to isolate and demonize Israel.”
Several UTLA chapter chairs passed a resolution during the recent conflict between Israel and Gaza-based terrorist groups expressing “solidarity with the Palestinian people” and calling for an end to the “bombardment of Gaza” and stopping the “displacement at Sheikh Jarrah.”
The resolution makes no mention of the more than 4,000 rockets fired by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad indiscriminately at Israeli territory, which killed 13 people, including two children. The resolution also fails to mention evidence of Hamas firing rockets from civilian areas of Gaza.
The United Educators of San Francisco (UESF) passed a similar resolution in mid-May, reportedly becoming the first public school teachers union to endorse the anti-Israel BDS movement…
(Excerpts from the Algemeiner)