Supreme Court to Hear E-Rate Funding Case

The United States Supreme Court has announced that it will hear an appeal of a court decision striking down the funding mechanism for the Federal Communications Commission's Universal Service Fund. Private schools participating in the E-Rate program will be watching very closely, stay tuned.

DOGE Interested in Ending Time Change

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is considering the issue of Daylight Savings Time. While there appears to be broad annoyance with the practice of Americans having to change their clocks twice a year, that is where the agreement ends.

Some organizations have expressed opposition to the prospect of going to Daylight Savings Time year round, because some cities would see sunrises as late as 9 AM during part of the year, which raises safety issues for kids waiting for school buses, and well as other concerns.

Disagreement over whether to go to permanent Standard Time or Daylight Savings Time tends to be regional rather than partisan. Ultimately, the inability of morning people and night owls to reach agreement means that the current system may continue for the foreseeable future.

Two Children Critically Injured During School Shooting at California Private School

In a terrible story, two young boys, ages 5 and 6, were critically wounded in a shooting at the Feather River Adventist School in Oroville, CA Wednesday. According to NBC News, the Butte County Sheriff's Office has received information leading them to believe "that the subject responsible for the shooting targeted this school because of its affiliation with the Seventh-day Adventist Church."

More information can be found here.

South Carolina Parents File Suit on Behalf of School Choice

From ABC News 4:

South Carolina parents teamed up on Wednesday with The Institute for Justice to file a petition that will seek to restore South Carolina's Education Scholarship Trust Fund (ESTF).

The fund would allow children from low-income families to use the scholarship to attend private schools.

South Carolina's ESTF program was created in 2023 to give qualifying families a $6,000 scholarship that parents can use to purchase educational expenses.

A lawsuit filed in the South Carolina Supreme Court challenged the Department of Education's policy that prohibited parents from using their scholarship money to pay for tuition at private schools.

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