Education News
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Major Textbook Publisher Caught Spreading LGBTQ and DEI Ideology in Schools
“Pretty disgusting” and “grotesque.” That’s how a Florida parent described an online session for students on “gender” provided by two K-12 virtual public schools in November—a session that virtual school officials held without first informing parents. These schools’ attempt to sidestep families is just the latest in a long list of examples demonstrating that some…Jonathan Butcher -
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Nation’s Second-Largest School District Revises Race-Based Grant Program
In August, the nation’s second-largest school district announced a major policy shift that caused the soon-to-be-unemployed minds at the Los Angeles Times editorial board to collectively explode last month. Why? Because in the wake of a federal civil rights complaint filed by Parents Defending Education in 2023, the U.S. Department of Education forced the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) to open up its $120 million…Nicole Neily -
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College Closures Expected to Skyrocket as Americans Turn Away From Higher Education
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Annual college closures may increase as enrollment at higher education institutions continues to decline, according to a new report. If enrollment at universities continues its downward trend, as many as 80 additional colleges may be forced to shut down, according to the December report published by the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. Recent data shows freshman…Jaryn Crouson -
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A Tale of Two Michigan Colleges and DEI
As a sophomore at the University of Michigan, I have seen the effects that left-wing academic policies can have on the overall health of an educational institution firsthand. Those influences take many forms, from “mandatory” gender and sexuality modules to required classes for many majors on racial and ethnic intolerance and “inequality.” One thing that…Frederick Woodward -
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DEI Has Made America Meaner
Diversity, equity, and inclusion has made society meaner—mean enough to accept Hitlerian terms when describing out-groups and seeking to exact revenge on perceived oppressors. This was all common sense to many of us years ago, but it’s nice that we now have a study that substantiates our perception. The report, released Nov. 25 by the always-good Network…Mike Gonzalez -
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Democrats Once Owned the Education Issue—Not Anymore
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Former Democratic Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama’s campaigns were defined by sweeping education reform, improving public K-12 education for students across the nation. By 2024, the Democratic platform had largely abandoned this sentiment, and the education scene has increasingly been shaped by culture war issues that have Republicans winning with parents….Jaryn Crouson -
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Walmart Abandons ‘Transgender’ Products for Kids, DEI Policies
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, is scaling back its diversity, equity, and inclusion—or DEI—policies, according to The Associated Press. The retailer confirmed that it would not renew a five-year commitment for a racial equity center created after the death of George Floyd in 2020, it would withdraw from a gay rights index…Ireland Owens -
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‘Hell of a Vindication’: Detransitioner Speaks Out After Being Silenced by College, Threatened by Classmates
Threats and bullying from peers and censorship from his college couldn't stop detransitioner Simon B. Amaya Price from sounding the alarm on so-called gender transitions for children. Amaya Price, 20, was tasked with creating an event about social change for a class at Berklee College of Music, a private music college in Boston. He decided…Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell -
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Call Your Governor: Florida College Shows How to Reform Woke Public Universities
A new book out this week gives a blueprint for freedom-loving governors to fight back and stop the waste of taxpayer money subsidizing public universities that are cesspools of Marxism and propaganda undermining Western civilization. This book, which supplies a path out, is titled “Storming the Ivory Tower: How a Florida College Became Ground Zero…Carrie Sheffield -
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KEEP OUT: How I Led the Successful Fight to Bar Trans ‘Women’ From My All-Female College
A year ago this month, I was able to rid my left-wing college of liberal gender ideology. In January, President-elect Donald Trump and the Republican Party have a historic opportunity to do the same for the entire nation. Final victory against the woke mind virus is possible. I know, because I did it myself at…Macy Gunnell -
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Parents in Massachusetts School District Can’t Opt Out of ‘Sexuality,’ ‘Gender Identity’ Lessons
Some Massachusetts elementary schools are observing "Transgender Awareness Week" in a district that bars parents from opting their children out of lessons about gender identity and sexuality. "November 13th through November 19th is Transgender Awareness Week," Angiers Elementary Principal Orla Higgins Averill said in an email obtained by The Daily Signal. "This week helps raise the…Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell -
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In Shocking Video, Tim Walz’s Education Adviser Urges Overthrow of America
In a stunning video brought to public attention by National Review, Brian Lozenski, a leading authority on critical race theory who is Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s most important education adviser, calls explicitly for the “overthrow” of America. Here are the highlights of what Lozenski says in the video flagged by National Review contributing editor Stanley…Tom Klingenstein -
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Virginia University Pushes Liberal Voting Guides
With just days before one of the most contentious elections of our lifetime, George Mason University, a Virginia school funded by taxpayers, sent all students and staff an email urging them to go to the polls. Fair enough. But the email included links to lefty get-out-the vote efforts with a biased presentation of the issues….Mike Gonzalez -
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EXCLUSIVE: Virginia Schools Secretly Remove LGBTQ Book Amid Explicit Images Controversy
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Public schools in a Northern Virginia county have quietly removed a pro-LGBTQ book after parents criticized it for sexually explicit images, The Daily Signal has learned. Fairfax County Public Schools in the Washington, D.C., suburbs confirmed in emails to parent Stacy Langton that school libraries across the county had removed the…Tyler O’Neil -
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Christian School Punished for Forfeiting Game With ‘Transgender’ Player, Though a Dozen Women’s Teams Won’t Play Biological Males
At least a dozen women’s and girls sports teams have forfeited games against teams with biological male players without consequences, but one team has been kicked out of its league for almost a year for refusing to play a team with a transgender-identifying player. Mid Vermont Christian School in Burlington, Vermont, forfeited a girls’ high…Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell -
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Could Tim Walz’s Progressive Education Policies Doom Harris?
Donald Trump currently holds a razor-thin 0.6% lead over Kamala Harris in the RealClearPolitics polling average for Pennsylvania. With this key swing state potentially deciding the outcome of the Electoral College, Democrats can only wonder how different the polls might look if Pennsylvania’s popular governor, Josh Shapiro—once considered a front-runner for Harris’ VP pick—were on the ticket…Nathan Harden -
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The University of Michigan Dug Its Own DEI Grave
The head of diversity, equity, and inclusion at the University of Michigan is incensed with The New York Times and with The Heritage Foundation (something that rarely happens simultaneously). The newspaper published an article making it clear that diversity, equity, and inclusion has been a flop at Ann Arbor, and it cited Heritage. That was enough for…Mike Gonzalez -
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The Myth of Underfunded Public Schools
Do you know how much you spend per student in your local public school? Surveys find that most Americans cannot answer this question. And public education interest groups such as teachers unions benefit from this knowledge gap because then they can ask for more spending and few, if any, taxpayers and voters know what the…Jonathan Butcher -
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Detransitioner Bullied Into Canceling ‘Born in Right Body’ Event at College
A college student who formerly identified as transgender faced threats, harassment, and cyberbullying for attempting to host an event on his college campus intended to raise awareness about the dangers of gender transition procedures for minors. Simon B. Amaya Price, 20, was tasked with creating an event about social change for a class at Berklee…Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell -
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EXCLUSIVE: Informing Parents of Gender Identity ‘Jeopardizes’ Students, NH School District Teaches Staff
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A New Hampshire public school district allowed a radical LGBTQ group to teach staff that student safety is “jeopardized” when teachers share gender identity issues with parents. GLSEN, which is known for promoting LGBTQ ideology to young children and schools, provided trainings to staff of School Administrative Unit 53 in 2021, as…Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell