Evan Poellinger
CNSNews Fellow
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DEI-related job postings in the tech industry dropped by 44% during 2023, an apparent sign of waning focus on ideologically-based hiring.
A CNBC report which noted that prominent tech companies, such as Google and Meta (formerly Facebook), had dramatically reduced the number of advertised positions related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). Additionally, the report reveals that certain…
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Dan and Jennifer Mead of Rockford, Michigan are suing the Rockford Public School District for its decision to begin socially transitioning their daughter to a boy without giving them notice.
According to the legal documentation, the Meads were working with a school counselor after their daughter was diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder. In May 2022, the Meads’ daughter, referred to as "GM" in…
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The state of Minnesota will begin mandating that public schools provide menstrual products in boy’s bathrooms beginning on January 1.
According to the Center of the American Experiment, the products it expects schools to carry include “pads, tampons, or other similar products used in connection with the menstrual cycle” and that such products to be available in all bathrooms “regularly” used by…
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Grand Canyon University (GCU) was fined $37.7 million, allegedly in a thinly veiled attempt to target the school for its status as a successful Christian college according to the Goldwater Institute.
The fine, which was imposed in November, was ostensibly adjudicated because of GCU’s apparent failure to disclose to PhD students that they might need to take continuing courses during doctoral…
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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…