Joshua Nelson

California Gov. Gavin Newsom approving the allocation of $2 billion to address learning loss from COVID lockdowns is a “stark admission of failure,” a Chino Valley school board president told Fox News Digital. “The recent settlement in which California agreed to spend $2 billion to help children most impacted by lost learning and mental health issues caused by the school closures is a stark admission of the failures that occurred,” Chino Valley Unified School District Board President Sonia Shaw…

Oakland, California, is reportedly headed toward a change in the political climate as residents are fed up with mounting issues such as housing costs, homelessness, and crime. “The opposition to progressives like [Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao] has been mounting, abetted by the budget crisis, frustration with crime and fallout from the FBI raid,” the San Francisco Chronicle reported. Oakland United to Recall Sheng Thao (OUST) submitted its petition in June to have the mayor recalled. Officials in Ala…

City officials in Oakland, California have shut down over 500 homeless encampments in the past three years. However, this crackdown has caused blowback from some residents. During the city council’s May 28 “Life Enrichment Committee” meeting, one speaker addressed the city’s encampment management. “When we speak, y’all don’t look at us? When we speak, when we tell you what’s happening at these places, it don’t matter,” a gentleman speaking at the podium said. CALIFORNIA’S POPULATION EXPECTED TO…

A recent survey showed that people are seeking to leave California in droves, while North and South Carolina, Florida and Tennessee are attracting more potential movers. ConsumerAffairs released a survey on May 20 finding that a high cost of living was driving people to want to leave their home state for states with a lower cost of living, with California ranked at the bottom in terms of net loss of migration. The firm analyzed data from 143,506 of their users who expressed an interest in movin…

Public schools in Florida, particularly in the Sunshine State’s largest counties, are facing closure due to lack of enrollment and parents seeking other educational options like charter schools and homeschooling. “Parents won’t flee schools that are meeting their children’s needs,” American Federation For Children Senior Fellow Corey DeAngelis told Fox News Digital. “School choice is a rising tide that lifts all boats.” Around 53,000 students have left public schools in Broward, Miami-Dade and D…

An attorney is confident her client’s lawsuit against the Biden administration will strike down its new Title IX changes as unconstitutional. “We want and we expect to win the lawsuit and have these rules, this regulation be determined to be unconstitutional because it is unconstitutional,” Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) President and CEO Kristen Waggoner told Fox News Digital. Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday on behalf of the Texas-based Carroll Independent…

Although President Biden’s efforts to give farmers financial assistance based on race was ruled as unconstitutional in court, independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy has put forward a proposal to give Black farmers $5 billion. Kennedy promised $5 billion to Black farmers during a podcast interview with the founder of the National Black Farmers Association (NBFA). They discussed how Black farmers failed to get financial assistance from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) that w…

The latest example of an advancement towards reparations happened on Thursday in California, which formally apologized for the state’s role in slavery. California is part of a trend of local and state governments across the U.S. establishing a task force that would recommend how reparations would be executed. For example, in Boston, Massachusetts, task force members will propose reparations measures based on historical research and other factors compiled by the experts for City Hall to consider…

Black voters spoke with Fox News Digital from across the U.S. about President Biden and former President Donald Trump as they prepare to face off again in November, and the reviews were decidedly mixed. The latest Fox News survey shows former President Trump narrowly ahead of President Biden in the race for the White House. But the contest has tightened as an uptick in economic optimism pushes approval of Biden up. As far as Black voters go, the survey shows Biden receives 72% support among Blac…

Republican lawmakers called for the Department of Education’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) to review the Biden administration’s conduct against the nation’s largest Christian university based in Arizona. “Education Secretary [Miguel] Cardona, basically came out fairly early … publicly indicated that he was going to shut down Grand Canyon University and go in that way. There was Congresswoman [Rosa] DeLauro calling it a predatory school, which it is not,” Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., told Fox N…