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TWENTYNINE PALMS, Calif. — A California school district recently sent a letter to homeschooling parents implying that they must use the controversial Common Core curriculum in order to comply with state law. The letter originated from the Morongo Unified School ...

  A key staffer at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) ordered a segment about Common Core removed from a DNC-produced video, acknowledging that the party’s position on education is out of line with public opinion, according to hacked emails released ...

A homeschooling family in New Jersey was illegally ordered to use the Common Core curriculum and have the local superintendent of schools approve what they taught, according to the Home School Legal Defense Association. The shocking turn of events took ...

A Nevada school is charging a dad thousands of dollars to get access to the school’s personal data on his own son. When the father of four attempted to convince the state board of education to share multiple years of ...

What if the government announced new educational standards intended to make the nation’s children smarter, but they ended up doing exactly the opposite? That’s exactly what critics of the Common Core State Standards initiative say is happening, and that’s the ...

Parents and their children scored a big victory in Colorado for privacy when the state ended its relationship with inBloom, which data mines the personal information of families. The highly controversial program was still in the pilot stages when a ...

Most of us are aware of the Pandora’s Box that has been opened in terms of personal data mining. We are cautious in filling out store loyalty card applications, and we try our best to safe-guard of our online passwords ...

Common Core is a highly controversial public education initiative which has led many to fear that national data on students and families will be collected by the federal government – a charge that the nation’s leading home school legal organization ...

Is the federal government taking over local schools? Perhaps. The controversial Common Core project and new higher education initiatives voiced by President Obama during his recent bus tour indicate parents and school boards will have even less control over the ...

The Batavia, Illinois school board has decided to punish teacher John Dryden with a letter of remedy simply because he stood up for the Fifth Amendment rights of his students. This letter details probationary actions he must complete or else ...