Evan Poellinger
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The state of Florida fined and placed Monarch High School on administrative probation for allowing a male student to participate on the women’s volleyball team, which prompted a walkout by hundreds of students in protest of the penalty.
On December 12, the Florida High School Athletic Association sent a letter to Monarch High School, in which the association described Broward County Public…
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A number of conservative groups and Republican officials have begun to take legal action against law firms over the use of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) ideology in their hiring process.
The Washington Post reports that the American Alliance for Equal Rights has sued or sent letters to several law firms which maintain diversity fellowships, alleging that the fellowships “exclude…
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The regents of the University of Wisconsin, Madison voted 9-8 to reject a deal with Republican legislators which would have allowed faculty and staff at the university to receive a raise in exchange for a reduction in positions related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).
UW Madison officials initially agreed to a deal on December 8, which would have halted hiring for DEI positions until…
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Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-FL) attempted to tie incidents of on-campus anti-Semitism to the Trump Administration Tuesday during a House hearing concerning harassment incidents on campus in the aftermath of Hamas’ October 7 attack on Israel.
The hearing was geared towards examining the response, or lack thereof, by a number of prominent colleges and universities to the assorted incidents. Rep.…
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Portland (Oregon) Public Schools faculty will be adjudicating discipline by weighing students’ racial and gender identities under a new collective bargaining agreement. The agreement states that its purpose is “to minimize the use of exclusionary discipline and to maximize instructional time, while repairing harm done within the school community.”
The agreement further delineates that the…
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An adjustment of education standards in Maine that would integrate lessons about genocide into middle school science classes in the state has sparked concerns from teachers who question the merit of incorporating such subject matter into science courses.
According to the Associated Press, a proposed restructuring of middle school science would include examples of how science has “sometimes been…
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The University of Massachusetts Boston has removed a hiring requirement for prospective faculty that demanded a statement which demonstrated their support for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). The ideologically-charged diversity statement requirement was first exposed by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) in June.
As Fox News reported, this statement was required…
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Schools that have begun to implement so-called “Equity Grading” have come under fire from parents who support traditional standards-based grading. Among these schools, Dublin Unified School District in the San Francisco Bay area made the decision in 2022 to test doing away with standardized grading in favor of grading based upon “student mastery of material” in order to “improve equity by…
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Businesses should begin utilizing “guerilla tactics” in order to continue their diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts in the aftermath of the Supreme Court decision which struck down affirmative action, according to a recent Forbes article.
Writing for Forbes, Joe Santana opined that businesses had an incentive to implement DEI, arguing that “the ability of DEI investments to drive…
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Alpha News, a Minnesota-based new organization, has released an eye-opening documentary called The Fall of Minneapolis.
The documentary undertakes a comprehensive deconstruction of the narrative surrounding the death of George Floyd, beginning with the events surrounding Floyd’s actual arrest and ending with the aftermath of the trial of Derek Chauvin.
The Fall of Minneapolis argues that…