Department of Education

FG Trade/iStock/Getty Images Plus A New Hampshire school district already embroiled in a lawsuit over its gender-identity policy is spending $4,000 of federal Covid-19 relief funds on a high-school Pride event that includes a drag show. Manchester High School West art teacher Richella Simard applied in April for a grant from the city’s Community Event and Activation Grant (CEAG) program,...

Commentary I don’t know when the debt ceiling will be raised, but it will be raised. Every time federal spending bumps up against the debt ceiling, we witness the same drama, a drama so predictable that you could almost call it a ritual: Republicans, citing a need for fiscal restraint, demand some cuts to federal spending; Democrats resist the proposed...

Commentary Can California further socialize the raising of children, reducing the parents’ role even more? Yes, it can. In the May Revision to his budget proposal for fiscal year 2023-24, Gov. Gavin Newsom advances what’s called “Whole Child” health care: “The state is reasonably positioned to sustain the continued multi-year implementation of the California for All Kids plan—a whole child...

Commentary If you want to see what’s wrong with K-12 education in California, a good place to start is Assembly Bill 938, by Assemblyman Al Muratsuchi (D-Torrance). It sets “aspirational funding levels” to “raise wages by 50 percent” for teachers and other school workers by fiscal year 2030-31. Or seven years from the 2023-24 fiscal year, which begins this July...