By L.A. Williams Christian Action League November 12, 2020 A high school can teach students using a book that is overtly hostile toward Christianity, but a 9-year-old isn’t allowed to wear a “Jesus Loves Me” face-covering in the classroom. “This is the sad state of public education in America,” said the Rev. Mark Creech in […]
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NCAE Files Lawsuit to Eliminate Opportunity Scholarships for Low-Income Children
By Graham McDowellChristian Action LeagueJuly 31. 2020 Monday, the North Carolina Association of Educators (NCAE) filed a lawsuit to eliminate the Opportunity Scholarships program. In 2013, a Republican-led legislature created the Opportunity Scholarships to provide students from low and middle-income families with up to $4,200 per year to attend a private school. As many as […]
Bringing BLM into North Carolina Classrooms
By Graham McDowellChristian Action LeagueJuly 16, 2020 In light of the Governor’s much-anticipated announcement about reopening schools, pandemic-weary parents may be too focused on how and when their students will head back to class to consider precisely what they will learn there. In Wake County, their studies could include a significant dose of Marxist ideology, […]
A Toxic Plague in Public Schools
By J. Russell Capps Christian Action League February 12, 2020 Let me first be sure to say there are many good teachers in our public schools. However, it appears even good teachers have to support programs that are using schools to become successful instruments for leftist social reform. Teachers are overworked and should not be […]
For N.C. Christians Wanting to Be Informed, Engaged and Prayerful about Social Issues: No Better Resource than The CAL Insider
Christian Action League Staff Christian Action League November 19, 2019 For Christians who want to pray for their state and nation, for Christians who wish to stay abreast of the latest news about social issues, for Christians who desire to be educated about the issues from a strong Christian worldview, for Christians who want to […]
Will Public Schools Sink the ‘Ship of State?’
By J. Russell Capps Christian Action League October 9, 2019 In an expression made by Plato centuries ago, there began a designation of government as a “Ship of State.” I have always favored that view as a representation of our National Government. A ship, or a boat, doesn’t sink because it is in the water; […]