Tag Archives: public schools

The Missouri Senate this week began debate on a groundbreaking bill that would require state public classrooms to display the Ten Commandments. National push for displays shows similar efforts across states. Under ...

Classical education is experiencing a resurgence, with advocates hoping to expand its reach from private religious and charter schools to struggling public schools. “During COVID, parents saw what their kids were learning, ...

Parents overwhelmingly support back-to-basics educational reform, according to a recent national poll conducted by Parents Defending Education. • The vast majority of respondents (roughly 96 percent) believe parents should have the freedom ...

Show Me KC Schools will host citywide open houses from 10 a.m. to noon this Saturday. Multiple schools will participate in the event as part of National School Choice Awareness Week, which ...

Christian leaders are expressing optimism about religious freedom initiatives as Missouri State Rep. Hardy Billington introduces groundbreaking legislation requiring Ten Commandments displays in public schools. The Republican lawmaker from Poplar Bluff has ...

The American Civil Liberties Union is alleging that a Kansas school district allowed Gideons International to distribute those little multi-colored New Testaments to students, violating the First Amendment. However, previous court rulings ...

Oklahoma this week sent out guidelines to the state’s school districts on incorporating the Bible into classroom instruction. The guidelines outline how the Bible can be used in a non-religious role to ...

There’s been a lot of media coverage about a new education mandate in Oklahoma requiring every public school classroom to have a Bible. Some have taken to media platforms to denounce the ...

LifeWise Academy, a nonprofit organization that provides offsite Bible instruction to public school students during classroom hours, is expanding its program to more states. “Values of faith and the Bible are absolutely ...

Seven in 10 Missouri teachers have seriously considered leaving their profession, a survey from the Missouri State Teachers Association found. The main reasons are stress, student behavior and lack of pay, association ...

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., whose birthday the nation celebrates, remains a fascinating and complex figure. Here are six factoids about the civil rights leader you may not know. King opposed the ...

Parents of students at Olathe Northwest High School continue to express concerns about attempts to organize a “High School Satan Club.” The club has not yet been approved, according to the school. ...

Nearly one-third of Missouri voters consider their public schools to be of poor quality, up from 17 percent a year earlier. A recent survey by St. Louis University and YouGov found Missouri ...

More than half of Missourians are not happy with the state’s public schools. Fifty-six percent rated their local schools as fair or poor, and seven in 10 said the same about public ...

Missouri parents can be jailed if their children fail to attend school regularly, the state Supreme Court ruled this week. The litigation centered around Tamarae LaRue and Caitlyn Williams in Lebanon, Mo., ...

Only about one-third of Americans have confidence in the church or organized religion, and even fewer have faith in public schools. Gallup sampled Americans’ level of trust in more than a dozen ...

The Biden administration’s new guidance on religious expression in public schools is raising red flags among religious rights legal groups. Earlier this week, the U.S. Department of Education released “Guidance on Constitutionally ...

The Midwest Parent Educators Conference and Curriculum Fair will be held March 31 and April 1 in Kansas City. Metrovoicenews.com is a sponsor of this annual homeschooling event. The annual event, which ...

Democratic New York Mayor Eric Adams received support from Christians who said he was stating the obvious about prayer and crime. Now, he’s under attack by atheist groups for saying banning prayer ...

A drag show seen by middle-school students in Columbia is drawing criticism from parents and state officials. At the annual Columbia Values Diversity Breakfast, timed to be near the Martin Luther King ...

Public schools lost more than one million students between the fall of 2019 and the fall of 2020. Although the pandemic triggered a surge in homeschooling, its popularity continues to explode with ...

Gov. Mike Parson has officially declared January 22-28 as School Choice Week in Missouri. Over the next four weeks, more than a dozen other governors are expected to join this proclamation. During the week, state, city and county ...

The Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network (GLSEN) has admitted in a video how the organization pushes radical gender ideology in the nation’s public schools. The shockingly frank revelation reveals they promote transgenderism ...

Christians and Muslims have vastly different religious beliefs, but they agree that public schools should not be indoctrinating students with a woke agenda. Christians concerned with sexually explicit materials in Dearborn (Mich.) ...

As families continue to pull their children from public schools, numerous Christian schools are beginning the year with surprise funding. The Herzog Foundation is issuing the grants, totaling $3,813,800, to propel the ...