Author: By SARAH WESTWOOD Washington Examiner
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COVID-19 school closures give rise to juvenile crime in certain cities, officials say
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Shuttering schools during the pandemic inflicted unintended consequences on most children: learning loss, mental health struggles, and missed milestones, among a host of others. But for some children, prolonged school closures destroyed what little stood between them and a life of chaos and abuse. And for a few, that meant turning to illegal activity. Juvenile crime is not necessarily on…
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Follow the money: How schools spent $190 billion in COVID-19 relief funds
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Schools have raked in roughly $190 billion in COVID-19 relief funds that education advocates argued were desperately needed to help the system recover from the pandemic. But more than two years into the recovery, some schools have not yet spent piles of cash Congress handed them through three separate stimulus bills. And in places where the spending is underway, COVID-19 relief…
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COVID, CRT, sexuality: What’s behind the mass student exodus from public schools
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Elicia Brand and her family moved to Loudoun County nine years ago to take advantage of well-reputed public schools in the affluent northern Virginia enclave. But after the pandemic began, the schools she once regarded as fantastic changed. Brand said her three sons encountered sexualized reading materials, a racially fraught curriculum, and an approach to education that seemed to…
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Breaking down the blame game on the border
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As Republicans and Democrats trade blame on who bears responsibility for the worsening border crisis, the Biden administration has pledged to pursue several solutions that critics argue will only worsen the problem. More than a dozen Republican senators on Friday returned from a trip to the border led by Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz, armed with images…
