( SRN NEWS ) School district officials on Florida’s Space Coast are not renewing the contract of a teacher who used a student’s chosen name without getting permission from the student’s parents in violation of Florida law. Officials with the Brevard Public Schools say Melissa Calhoun knowingly defied the law signed by Republican Governor Ron […]
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( SRN NEWS ) School district officials on Florida’s Space Coast are not renewing the contract of a teacher who used a student’s chosen name without getting permission from the student’s parents in violation of Florida law. Officials with the Brevard Public Schools say Melissa Calhoun knowingly defied the law signed by Republican Governor Ron DeSantis in 2023. It requires parental consent for a teacher to use an alternative to a student’s legal name, as part of that student’s efforts to live as the opposite sex. Schools superintendent Mark Rendell says parents can’t be ignored.
( ) The National Institutes of Health will no longer provide grant money to any college or university that boycotts Israel. It’s all part of President Trump’s efforts to root out anti-Semitism in America’s higher education system. Every year the NIH hands out tens-of-billions of dollars in the form of 50,000 or more academic and research grants. The new policy defines a boycott as ““refusing to deal, cutting commercial relations, or otherwise limiting commercial relations specifically with Israeli companies or with companies doing business in or with Israel.”
( ) The Department of Veterans Affairs is establishing a task force to investigate employee reports of anti-Christian bias among their colleagues. It’s all part of a broader effort by the Trump administration to root out discrimination against Christians in government that flourished during the Biden years. V.A. Secretary Doug Collins has sent a rare department-wide email asking for names, dates, and locations of any alleged incidents to be reported to an internal email address. A similar request has been sent out to all employees of the State Department.
( ) The Tennessee state legislature has adjourned without passing a bill aimed at keeping males out of female bathrooms and similar private areas. The failed legislation would have covered correctional facilities, juvenile detention centers, public higher education institutions and domestic violence shelters. Lawmakers did give final approval to a measure that would ban local governments or higher education institutions from making employment decisions based on consideration of someone’s race, ethnicity, sex, age or other demographic information.