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    New Book Details Teachers Union Internal Document Pushing Critical Race Theory in K-12 Schools
    Editor’s note: The following excerpt is from a new book detailing the rise of government unions, their stranglehold over public policy, and how to defeat them. Aaron Withe’s “Freedom is the Foundation” explains why every American should be concerned about government unions using our tax dollars and union dues to push their radical ideology on…
    Aaron Withe
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    Ohioans Declare Independence From the District School Monopoly
    Just in time for Independence Day, Ohio families can finally declare independence from the district school monopoly. Over the weekend, Ohio lawmakers passed a state budget that expands eligibility for the state’s EdChoice Scholarships to all K-12 students. Gov. Mike DeWine signed the bill into law on Monday, making Ohio the eighth state in the…
    Jason Bedrick
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    Canadian Province Bars Planned Parenthood From Schools Over Graphic ‘Sex: From A-Z’ Cards?
    Is this what Planned Parenthood means when it says it provides more than just abortions? Planned Parenthood of Regina, Saskatchewan, in Canada brought "SEX: From A-Z" sexual topics cards to ninth graders there last week as part of a presentation about sexually transmitted diseases, contraception, and more. The sexually graphic cards had not been approved…
    Elise McCue
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    1 Lesson for Juneteenth: ‘Teach Your Own Kid. Schools Can’t Do It Alone.’
    After years of teaching, Arianne Craig Jolla says parents, not just educators, need to teach their children. And as the nation celebrates Juneteenth on Monday, Craig Jolla says parents have a wonderful opportunity to educate their children on the history behind the day and the joy of freedom.  Juneteenth celebrates the emancipation of the last…
    Virginia Allen
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    The Uprising: Families Clash With Schools Over LGBTQ Propaganda
    In a June like none other, where the LGBTQ agenda has been crammed at increasing velocity down the throats of unwitting Americans, everyday folks are reaching their limits. With two more weeks to go in “Pride Month,” this is bad news for the rainbow mafia. But it’s a sign of character and courage that the…
    Sarah Parshall Perry
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    Tim Scott EVISCERATES Attack on Moms Who Want Education to Focus on ‘ABCs, Not CRT’
    Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., who is running for president, defended Moms for Liberty and condemned the Southern Poverty Law Center for using “race as a weapon” in putting the parental rights group on a map with Ku Klux Klan chapters. “The provocative history of race in this country should not be weaponized against moms who…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Far-Left Jurisdiction Appalled When Middle Schoolers Revolt Against Pride Day
    Two hundred and fifty years after the Boston Tea Party, middle schoolers in a Boston suburb channeled its spirit against a new form of tyrannical oppression, LGBTQ+ Pride. Teachers, parents, and even administrators of the far-left jurisdiction were “shocked,” “horrified,” and “extremely disheartened” by these middle schoolers’ solid grasp of basic biology, and naturally they…
    Joshua Arnold
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    No Time to Let Up on School Choice and Education Reform
    In 1988, as an Arizona State Senate candidate, I explained to a PTA group my proposal to allow students to cross K-12 school attendance boundary lines, space permitting. They would then no longer be forced to attend their assigned school if their families thought a different one was better for them. My opponent countered that…
    Tom Patterson
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    CAUGHT: Top Education Publisher Deletes ‘Woke’ Evidence After Release of Heritage Foundation Report
    After Heritage Foundation scholar Jonathan Butcher began looking into the racially and sexually charged practices of publishing and education behemoth Pearson, links and videos started to disappear from the corporation's website and YouTube channel. Butcher’s new report for Heritage, released Wednesday, shows that the largest education corporation on the planet has made a considerable commitment…
    Tony Kinnett
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    Elementary School Holds Pride Month Celebration For Little Kids
    An elementary school in Charlottesville, Virginia, encouraged fourth graders to lead a pride month celebration of LGBTQ+ gender ideology during a schoolwide monthly meeting, video obtained by The Daily Signal shows. Video shows a little girl at Johnson Elementary School speaking into a microphone and telling a crowd of assembled children, who are all sitting…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    Law School Commencement Speech Is No Place for Far-Left Diatribe 
    Education ought to be the bedrock for fostering critical thinking and providing a landscape for the exploration of diverse perspectives, rather than serving as an incubator for extremist ideologies. That essential ethos of education, unfortunately, is under threat, exemplified recently by the graduation speech of City University of New York law graduate and soon-to-be lawyer,…
    Armstrong Williams
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    What Education Should Look Like: Master and Apprentice
    Over the past several months, I’ve been pelted with the same question over and over again: “If America’s public education system is broken, what should our education system look like?” In the education reform and school choice movements, we often reply that education is “whatever you as the parent want it to look like,” yet…
    Tony Kinnett
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    Parents Take School Board to Court for Assigning LGBTQ Books Without Their Consent
    Six Maryland parents of different religious backgrounds are suing the Montgomery County Board of Education for forcing their children to read LGBTQ “pride” books without parental knowledge or consent.  The federal lawsuit comes after the school board in the affluent Maryland county created a list of 13 newly approved “LGBTQ-inclusive” books and informed parents that…
    Gigi De La Torre
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    LifeWise Academy Brings Bible-based Education to Public School Students During School Hours
    Bethany Sanidad, a mom from Ohio, credits LifeWise Academy with changing her son Christian’s life—and by extension her whole family’s outlook on faith. “I imagine Christian and his family sitting in church one day and thinking it all started with LifeWise,” Sanidad told The Daily Signal. “If we didn't have LifeWise offered, we wouldn't be…
    Robert B. Bluey
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    North Carolina’s Democrat Governor Declares Emergency Over School Choice ‘Scheme’
    North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, a Democrat, declared a state of emergency Monday because the state Legislature is expected to override his veto of a school choice bill. “I’m declaring the state of emergency because you need to know what’s happening,” Cooper said during an address in the state capital of Raleigh. “If you care…
    Tony Kinnett
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    Why Junior ROTC Programs in US High Schools Are Needed Now More Than Ever
    Based on allegations of sex abuse at the hands of instructors, Rep. Jackie Speier, D-Calif., late last year called on the Pentagon to “shut down” the Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (JROTC) program. That sentiment is echoed by critics who further claim JROTC “brainwashes” students with militarism and violence. By way of background, JROTC is…
    Thomas Spoehr | Isaac Tang
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    ‘I Would Like to Have My Job Back’: School Counselor Sues After Being Fired for Disagreeing With Transgender Policy
    PENDLETON, Ind.—An Indiana school district violated a guidance counselor’s right to free speech by retaliating against and ultimately firing her for saying parents should know about their teenage children’s interest in “transitioning” to the opposite sex, the former counselor argues in a lawsuit filed Thursday.   Alliance Defending Freedom, a law firm that protects religious liberty…
    Tony Kinnett
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    Democratic Attorney General Targets School for Policy Notifying Parents If Their Child Tries to Change Their Gender
    New Jersey’s attorney general filed a civil rights complaint Wednesday against Hanover Township Board of Education challenging a policy that advises educators to notify parents if their child is transitioning genders at school. The Hanover Township Board of Education adopted a “Parental Notice of Material Circumstances” policy on Tuesday that requires educators to “say something to the…
    Reagan Reese
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    This School District Teaches Middle School Sex Ed Based on Planned Parenthood Guide
    Warning: This report includes graphic language and references to such language, which some readers may find offensive. A Virginia school district is using a teacher’s guide for middle school sex education, co-sponsored by Planned Parenthood, that promotes student “role-plays,” urges normalizing of certain behavior, and refers to sterilization as “permanent birth control.”  The teachers guide…
    Fred Lucas
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    School System’s Decision Against Flying ‘Pride’ Flags Outside Buildings Angers LGBTQ+ Activists
    School board meetings in one New Jersey district have turned into a toxic fiasco as LGBTQ+ protesters screamed and cursed at board members over a policy to fly only the American and New Jersey flags in front of schools. The last two scheduled school board meetings of the Westwood Regional School District in Bergen County,…
    Tony Kinnett
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