The court has just heard Mahmoud v. Taylor, in which families from a variety of faiths—Muslims, Jews, Christians—are fighting imposition by the Board of Education in Montgomery County, Maryland, requirements that children learn material about gender ideology. As reported by the Becket Fund: “These parents are simply asking to be notified when the books will be read to their children and to be given an opportunity to opt out.”
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The last quarter century has seen a dramatic increase in grade inflation on student report cards in elementary, middle, and high schools throughout the United States. When it comes to student achievement and adjustment, the advantage of being raised by married birth parents has actually increased over the last quarter century. Students raised in unmarried and disrupted families are more likely to have their parents contacted by schools for conduct or grade issues than those raised by their married birth parents. Despite the ballooning number of students getting stellar grades, those being raised by their married birth parents are still more likely to get mostly A’s than those in other family forms.
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India’s Christian minority fears that the central government might be planning to bring their institutions under state control, following a series of recent developments that suggest the administration and its ideological affiliates are preparing to target church-owned properties. Rahul Gandhi, a senior leader in India’s main opposition party, the left-of-center Indian National Congress, warned that the Waqf law has set a precedent for state interference in minority-run institutions. He said the focus on Christian landholdings appears to be a continuation of an agenda to weaken the autonomy of religious minorities.
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Advocacy groups in the United Kingdom (UK) are calling on the government to tighten laws surrounding commercial surrogacy due to a surrogacy business’s alleged unethical practices. A British business stands accused of setting up an overseas office in Mexico to take advantage of poverty-stricken women more likely to accept a reduced fee to act as surrogates.
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A Colorado proposal that would punish parents for not using preferred pronouns is an example of government overreach, warned the U.S. Department of Education. Speaking to the Daily Signal, U.S. Department of Education (DOE) spokeswoman Julie Hartman declared that “children do not belong to the government. They belong to parents.”
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