More than half of the best 100 public schools in New York City as measured by performance on state math and English tests are charter schools, many of them located in poor neighborhoods and serving students that the city describes as economically disadvantaged. City and state websites offer report cards on individual schools but make
New York City’s first lady, Rama Duwaji, glorified terrorist violence in a wide range of posts made on social media when she was a teenager and in her early 20s, celebrating members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terror group and the First Intifada, a Washington Free Beacon review of her
Cesar Chavez, the Latino civil rights leader adored by Democratic politicians, accused of grooming and abusing young girls (edited, Wikimedia Commons) Say it ain’t so. The Democratic Party lost another iconic figure to reputational disgrace this week as Cesar Chavez, the late union organizer and Latino civil rights leader, was exposed as a serial sex
The Islamic initiative, an arm of IU’s School of Philanthropy, organized multiple events with Istanbul-based nonprofit Hayat Yolu Association Shariq Siddiqui speaking at an event in Turkey (Muslim Philanthropy Initiative, Indiana University) An Islamic think tank at Indiana University has hosted multiple fundraising training events for a Turkish nonprofit that the U.S. government says is
Israeli defense minister Israel Katz authorized the IDF to assassinate senior Iranian officials ‘once the circle closes on them’ (@IAFsite X) Israel on Wednesday killed Iran’s intelligence minister, Esmaeil Khatib, during an airstrike in Tehran, according to the Israel Defense Forces. Khatib orchestrated the violent crackdown on protesters earlier this year and ran an agency
‘I always thought he was weak on security,’ President Donald Trump said of Joe Kent, the National Counterterrorism Center head who stepped down Tuesday Joe Kent (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) The director of the National Counterterrorism Center, Joe Kent, resigned on Tuesday with a long-winded letter denouncing Operation Epic Fury and arguing that the president initiated
Harvard College’s dean of admissions and financial aid, William Fitzsimmons, says Harvard is following Brown University’s lead in admissions outreach targeting Jewish day schools, and that results so far this year have been encouraging. The dean’s remarks, made February 20 at a Harvard Chabad shabbat dinner at Harvard Business School where a former Brown chancellor