Tag: education

A majority of British people (60 per cent) believe it’s right to teach primary school pupils about different kinds of families, including same-sex parenting. New research commissioned by UK Charity Stonewall has found widespread support among the British public for LGBT-inclusive education. Among young people aged 16-24, this figure increases to over two thirds (68

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos appearing before the Senate Appropriations Committee in June 2017. / Image via screen capture, PBS News Hour We’ve known this for awhile, but now we have the hard data. As The New York Times reported yesterday, a new study by liberal Center for American Progress (CAP) using U.S. Department of Education data “provided the first analysis of how students who identify as have fared in the first half of the Trump administration.” The opening lines of...

Stock Photo via Pexels Everything is bigger in Texas, even the homophobia. A Christian daycare rejected a child’s admission after they found out that the child’s parents, a lesbian couple, were married. According to the New York Daily News, Brittney and Stacey Ready were first excited when they initially heard that their youngest child Callie had been accepted into the daycare program at the Parkview Christian Academy in Waco, Texas. The family was then rejected after the school’s administrators found out...