Category: Education

Will They Finally Pull Plug on Indiana University’s Kinsey Institute?

Written by Robert Knight

Years after the founder of Indiana University’s Kinsey Institute was exposed as a fraud and sexual predator, some Hoosier State legislators are moving to defund the sex think tank.

On Wednesday, the Republican-dominated House voted 53-34 for an amendment to the state budget bill barring money for the institute. All Democrats voted against it, naturally, joined by seven kinky Republicans.

HB 1001 got final approval 66-29 on Thursday and was sent over to the Senate.… Continue Reading

Universal Educational Vouchers Is Not a Winning Policy

Written by Robert Bortins

Don’t believe the press releases from universal school voucher enthusiasts: it wasn’t a winning message in Michigan, Pennsylvania, or Arizona governorships and Senate seats.

These are all swing states the GOP needs to win to take back the presidency and states where a GOP senator or two could protect the country from radical left-wing policies. But vouchers didn’t move the needle in any of them.

The GOP should abandon taxpayer-funded school choice and focus on empowering parents rather than expanding the state. … Continue Reading

Gov. Ron DeSantis Succeeds on Education Where Other Republicans Failed For Decades

Written by Daniel Horowitz

When was the last time you saw Republicans leading Democrats in any opinion poll on education? Likely never in this generation, not unlike their dismal polling on health care. Education and health care are probably the two most impactful issues on human life, liberty, culture, and economy, yet Republicans have ceded them to the left forever. They tepidly play their “me too” game of acceding to the same socialist policies, merely with less enthusiasm and slightly less funding, rather than offering a new vision altogether.… Continue Reading

SPOTLIGHT: Forest School in The SW Suburbs

Written by Jenna Smith

“. . .fill the earth and subdue it.
Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky
and over every living creature that moves on the ground.” ~Genesis 1:28

Rachel Mikottis is a homeschooled wonder of a woman who believes that nature is the best classroom in the world. In this week’s episode of Illinois Family Spotlight, Rachel joins Dave Smith and Jenna Smith (of the Self-Evident Podcast) for a conversation about an amazing, out-of-the-box idea of a forest school, specifically the one she founded called Free Haven.Continue Reading

AFT’s Randi Weingarten: The Most Dangerous Person in The World

Written by Dr. Everett Piper

On Nov. 20, just after speaking to the Republican Jewish Coalition’s annual leadership conference in Las Vegas, Mike Pompeo was asked what he “viewed as the central issues” for Republicans in 2024.

The former secretary of state answered: “The central ideas of America are timeless — limited government, expanded set of freedoms, protecting the capacity of people to practice their faith. The very things I spoke about tonight.” Then he added, “making sure we don’t teach our kids crap in schools, which we are [currently] doing.”… Continue Reading

Can You Say, “godless agenda”?

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America’s School Curriculum: Garbage In, Garbage Out

Written by Dr. Everett Piper

Last week in the news:

In New York City, at Trinity School on the Upper West Side, where parents pay $60,000 per year for their sons and daughters to get “a balanced educational program for body and soul,” Jennifer Norris, Director of Student Activities, proudly boasts, to an undercover reporter, that she works at

“a real fancy school … I can’t pretend I’m promoting an agenda even though I clearly am with all the stuff I’m doing… I feel like I’m a double agent… Unfortunately, it’s the white boys who feel very entitled to express their opposite opinions… There is a huge contingent of them that are just horrible… [They] are so protected by capitalism that it makes me sad…We just need someone like Dexter (a fictional vigilante serial killer) to ‘take them out.’”

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Biden’s Transgender Ideology Mandate in Schools

Written by Rev Gregory Quinlan

Here is another serious threat to America’s children and families. Redefining sex redefines marriage and redefines the family with far-reaching, reverberating, catastrophic consequences for America, but especially for our children, and in particular, girls.

Title IX was originally designed to provide girls and women with equal access to sports and other opportunities. It regulates every public K-12 school, college and university in the nation, prohibiting discrimination “on the basis of sex.”Continue Reading

Your Children Are Literally ‘Owned’ by Big Brother And His Reeducation Camps

Written by Dr. Everett Piper

The news this week coming out of Maryland is that the state owns your children; you don’t. Your sons and daughters are Uncle Sam’s, not yours. Or perhaps more accurately, your children belong to Father Mao and Brother Stalin. They don’t belong to you.

Writing for The Washington Post, Jasmine Hilton reports the following:

“A judge on Thursday dismissed a complaint against the Montgomery County school board by parents who alleged that the system’s student gender-identity guidelines violated their state and constitutional rights.”

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SPOTLIGHT: Pastor Ceasar LeFlore on Rescuing Our Children

Written by Jenna Smith

Imagine this scene: an adult family member is watching your child while you run a quick errand. Upon returning home, you discover your house is on fire. Smoke is billowing, flames are dancing on the roof, and the face of your helpless child is pressed to the window of his second-floor bedroom. What do you do? I imagine most of us would unhesitatingly rush in to rescue our child. Rev. Ceasar LeFlore says this is the fate of public school students throughout our state and nation.… Continue Reading