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‘No Exceptions’: Pentagon Schools Defy Hegseth by Renaming DEI Efforts
In preparation for Donald Trump’s second presidency, the Pentagon’s school system attempted to conceal its diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts under a different name. The Department of Defense Education Activity agency renamed social-emotional learning as “resilience,” according to a Jan. 6 meeting recording obtained by The Daily Signal. During his first two weeks in office,… -
opinion
Trump Is Reverse Engineering DEI Revolution in Science Institutions
The Trump administration’s ban on diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives in the federal government has sent shock waves through science institutions around the country. Way back in 2021, I wrote about how institutions of medicine were promoting transgender ideology with little scientific justification. They used their institutional credibility to promote left-wing political views. It went beyond just… -
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Who’s Afraid of School Choice—and Food Trucks—in Wyoming?
Teacher unions are racing to stop greater education choice from spreading to Wyoming. But parents there already know that more education options would be valuable for them, and special interest groups’ latest dirty political tactics only make them look desperate. “It’s either, you support families or you don’t,” says Mary Schmidt, a Wyoming parent who… -
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Why College Students Have Trouble Reading
We have a national reading problem in the U.S. The widespread lament over the further decline in children’s reading scores underscores the failure of our country’s public schools, but the predicament is not limited to primary education. It extends all the way up into America’s elite colleges and universities as well. A firestorm recently erupted… -
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‘Tearing the School Apart’: How DEI Changed Kentucky Country Day School
“Despite the occupation, despite the apartheid, Palestine will one day be free,” declared Mahmoud Kutmah, the valedictorian of Kentucky Country Day School’s class of 2021, at the end of his graduation speech. What followed that May 2021 commencement ceremony set off a chain reaction that enabled education consultant Rodney Glasgow to enter the picture and… -
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Lies, Damn Lies, and University Research Overhead Costs
Over the weekend, the National Institutes of Health announced that it would be cutting the rate at which it pays universities for overhead on federal research grants from an average of about 60% to 15%. Not surprisingly, there were howls of protest from university staff and their fellow-travelers in the media. Given their professional commitment… -
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How Trump Is Uprooting Radical ’60s Foundations of Poisonous DEI and CRT Programs
President Donald Trump has certainly undertaken a systematic demolition of former President Joe Biden’s diversity, equity, and inclusion regime since returning to the Oval Office. But Trump is also going further. He appears intent on correcting the distortion of the original pledges of the civil rights movement. In other words, Trump is not only dispatching Bidenism to the… -
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F-Minus: A Tale of Two Cities’ School Districts
The Nation’s Report Card recently went public. It’s the kind of thing that kids hide from their parents. The National Assessment of Educational Progress offers a grim view of America’s classrooms. Between 2022 and 2024, the share of fourth graders reading below basic level grew from 37% to 40%; among eighth graders, from 30% to 33%. Fourth grade math improved… -
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AG Pam Bondi Represented Mom in Case Against School District That Tried to Secretly Transition Daughter
One of Pam Bondi's clients says the newly-confirmed U.S. attorney general took her case suing the school district that tried to secretly transition her daughter when no one else would consider it. In 2021, Erin Lee’s 12-year-old daughter was invited by her art teacher to come to art club after school in the Poudre School… -
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‘Reflecting Biological Reality’: Education Department Publishes New College Student Aid Form
The Department of Education released an updated version of its Free Application for Federal Student Aid, commonly referred to as FAFSA, to better align with President Donald Trump’s executive order on biological sex after The Daily Signal drew attention to the issue last month. “President Trump has put an end to the previous administration’s charade… -
opinion
Future of Charter Schools Jeopardized by Their Own Political Shortsightedness
A decade ago, charter schools were heralded as the crowning achievement of bipartisan education reform efforts. But during last week’s National School Choice Week observations, charters were barely an afterthought, their political energy having been largely reappropriated to newer, more robust systems of school choice. The future of the charter school movement is likely to be… -
opinion
When the FAA and DEI Don’t Mix
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. I’d like to talk about diversity, equity, and inclusion. [President] Donald Trump caused a firestorm in the aftermath of this horrific and tragic crash at… -
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EXCLUSIVE: New Bill Targets Foreign Interference in Education
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Rep. Mark Harris, R-N.C., introduced a bill Tuesday to require universities to disclose any contracts they have with foreign adversaries to the federal Department of Education. The No Contracts for Foreign Adversaries Act would mandate that universities alert the Education Department of relationships with China, Russia, North Korea, or Iran in… -
opinion
If You Wanted Proof DEI Is a Cudgel to Silence Opponents, Look No Further
If the legacy media wanted to prove that the movement for diversity, equity, and inclusion is a smokescreen for the Left’s woke priorities, it couldn’t do much better than USA Today’s response to President Donald Trump’s statement about Wednesday night’s horrific aircraft collision over Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. Trump blamed DEI for the crash,… -
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Education Savings Accounts Would Give Military Families Freedom They Deserve
Military families exemplify the best of America—sacrifice, service, and dedication to our nation’s security. Yet, too often, their children are shortchanged by an education system that fails to meet their needs. As President Donald Trump begins his second term, we have an unprecedented opportunity to fix that. It’s time to empower military families with true education freedom… -
opinion
Higher Education Must Reform—or Else
A day of reckoning has come for higher education. In the past four years, acolytes from America’s most prestigious universities not only continued their project of indoctrination on their own campuses, they also attempted to transform the whole country into a grander version of the higher education insane asylum. From tearing down history to defunding the… -
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‘There Were 503 Lapses’: Kris Kobach Breaks Down Consequences of Hiring DEI in Aviation
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach appeared Thursday on Fox Business to discuss concerns regarding the diversity, equity, and inclusion hiring practices in the aviation industry. An American Airlines passenger plane collided with a military helicopter near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday evening, resulting in fatalities for everyone involved. During… -
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Trump on Whether DEI Led to Potomac Plane Crash: It’s ‘Common Sense’
President Donald Trump on Thursday morning spoke about the midair collision that occurred Wednesday evening near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport at a press conference at the White House. The collision just outside of Washington, D.C., involved a regional jet operating as an American Airlines flight from Wichita, Kansas, and an Army UH-60 helicopter on… -
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Texas School Faces Fallout Over Hidden Camera Footage on Transgender Sports Ban
A day after Texas Gov. Greg Abbott demanded criminal and civil investigations into the Irving Independent School District, an administrator resigned Wednesday amid the uproar over his comments about circumventing a state law regarding transgender athletes. “This Irving ISD Administrator should be fired on the spot,” Abbott wrote on X after an undercover video appeared… -
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Trump’s DEI Executive Order—Good for Blacks, Good for America
An ongoing principle of America’s democratic republic is e pluribus unum. Out of many, one. We honor and respect the uniqueness of every citizen. But we also have a common turf, a common set of transcendent values, that brings us together and we become one nation. Sometimes, cracks appear. Sometimes, they grow and get larger…