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opinion
Abysmal National Report Card Shows Why Education Reforms Are Badly Needed in US
The policies coming out of Washington, D.C., have the potential to affect Americans who have not even been born yet, whether for good or bad. The latest National Report Card from the National Assessment of Educational Progress paints an abysmal picture of education across the U.S. The report card is published every two years and… -
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‘Bureaucrats are Still Hiding’: How Is ATF Implementing Trump’s Executive Order on DEI?
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives asserts that it is in full compliance with President Donald Trump’s executive order to suspend federal DEI policies and place chief diversity officers on paid leave despite what a Second Amendment group noted. The ATF listed Lisa T. Boykin as a chief diversity officer for the agency… -
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Costco’s Wholesale Refusal to Cut DEI Draws Warning From 19 States
It’s a shrinking club, but there are still headstrong CEOs who refuse to bend to the anti-woke winds. None have grabbed more headlines than Costco, the big box holdout who’s clinging to diversity, equity, and inclusion while a stampede of businesses run the other way. After voting down a shareholder resolution last Thursday to return… -
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EXCLUSIVE: GOP Lawmakers Introduce Bill to Expand School Choice
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Republican Sens. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana and Tim Scott of South Carolina are celebrating National School Choice Week by introducing a bill to empower businesses and individuals to fund education choice for students. Introduced Wednesday, the Educational Choice for Children Act provides a charitable donation incentive for individuals and businesses to… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Sen. Mike Lee Introduces ACE Act to Promote School Choice
Later today, Sen. Mike Lee will introduce in the Senate the Achieving Choice in Education (ACE) Act, legislation that will bolster parental rights. The ACE Act increases tax exemptions for families to make private school or homeschooling more affordable for parents and encourages states to adopt school choice programs. The move comes as more states… -
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Why Is the Department of Education Still Offering a ‘Nonbinary’ Gender Marker on Student Aid Applications?
President Donald Trump signed an executive order declaring that there are two sexes, male and female, and the federal government will operate by that truth. Yet the Department of Education is still hosting the Free Application for Federal Student Aid with options for students to select a “nonbinary" gender identity. A source sent The Daily… -
opinion
2025 Will Be the Tipping Point for School Choice
As the nation celebrates National School Choice Week, the school choice movement is on the cusp of hitting a major milestone. By the end of 2025, it is likely that more than half of K-12 students nationwide will be eligible for private school choice. In the past five years, the number of students benefitting from… -
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Bureaucrats Privately Fume About Trump Abolishing DEI
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Numerous current and former government employees are complaining and commiserating about the end of internal federal diversity programs in a private Facebook group, images of which have been obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. The bureaucrats—mostly current or former employees of the Department of the Interior’s National Park Service—likened President Donald… -
opinion
Trump’s Dismantling of DEI Is Deeper and Bigger Than You Even Know
Federal diversity, equity, and inclusion hires had to know what was coming when President Donald Trump began his historic second term on Monday by rescinding the executive order that President Joe Biden started his term in 2021 with—one that ordered the promotion of racial preferences throughout his administration. But they probably had no idea that… -
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Rubio Moves Swiftly to Implement Trump’s DEI Directive at State Department
The U.S. State Department moved swiftly Wednesday to implement President Donald Trump’s executive order doing away with diversity, equity, and inclusion. An internal memo obtained by The Daily Signal spells out the department’s plans, which also included the removal of the Office of Diversity and Inclusion webpage. “No department personnel or chief of mission shall… -
opinion
Texas A&M’s Partisan General Counsel Puts University in Legal Jeopardy Over DEI
Texas A&M University is in legal and political trouble. It faces threats of civil rights liability, the loss of federal funding, and the firing of its president, Mark Welsh III, all because its general counsel, Ray Bonilla, gave the university legal advice that he should have known was unsound. Journalist-activist Chris Rufo revealed on X… -
opinion
Why Do Red State Policymakers Fund DEI Required Course in Public Universities?
No one is surprised that the cows in the Chik-fil-A ads advocate for eating more chicken. It would be shockingly irrational, however, if the chickens joined the campaign by paying the cows to carry their “Eat Mor Chikin” signs. Yet, this is exactly what Republican state legislators in 10 conservative states are doing when they… -
opinion
3 Crucial Ways to Avoid Poverty Should Be Taught in Schools
Americans have forgotten how to form families. The Congressional Budget Office predicts that the U.S. population will begin to shrink in eight years, which The Wall Street Journal noted is seven years earlier than the CBO projected in 2024. Radical social interest groups and the outgoing Joe Biden administration have been steering youth away from… -
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Hegseth’s Right, Dems Are Wrong. DEI Didn’t Make Military More ‘Lethal,’ It Fueled Historic Recruiting Crisis.
A focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion has damaged the effectiveness of the U.S. military and hurt recruitment numbers. Members of the Senate Armed Services Committee grilled President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, on Tuesday. One exchange in particular highlighted the wrongheaded thinking that infects some in the current U.S. leadership… -
opinion
TRUMP EFFECT: Meta Announces End to DEI Programs
The Trump Effect is in full swing before the new president even takes office. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Friday that the company would end its major diversity, equity, and inclusion programs. Meta put out a memo to employees explaining the move, which was published by Axios. “The legal and policy landscape surrounding diversity, equity… -
opinion
LA’s Disastrous Response to Wildfires Is Latest Consequence of California’s Obsession With DEI
California prioritizes fighting “toxic masculinity” and promoting DEI instead of fighting wildfires. I hate to appear flippant at a time when Los Angeles is going through an apocalyptic natural disaster, but the people of California should be outraged at state leaders. It is the California Democratic political machine—not “climate change”—that has ensured the Golden State… -
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Students Depressed From Battling Wokeness at College
Colleges went mad. They charge students big bucks and then make them feel guilty. My new video looks at a new documentary called, “The Coddling of the American Mind.” It persuasively suggests that today, young people are anxious and depressed because “adults” at their schools brainwashed them. Students like Lucy Kross Wallace at Stanford. “I… -
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Why Public Schools Struggle to Teach: A Substitute’s Perspective
For the past three years, I was a substitute teacher in the public schools of Warren County, Virginia. I served both as an aide in classrooms with a regular full-time teacher and as a substitute alone in the classroom. Warren County schools are probably typical of public schools everywhere: Most teachers love the students and… -
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Is DEI Worth Saving?
Is anything worth saving from the State Department’s new but vast diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility apparatus? Executive summary: No. As the summer 2020 high water mark of woke recedes, some U.S. institutions, from big companies to colleges, are gently backing off DEI, at least by name. But not the State Department. On his first… -
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Biden Admin Rushes to Hire DEI Staff Ahead of Trump Inauguration
Within 10 days of President-elect Donald Trump’s landslide victory, 33 DEI-related jobs were posted by the federal government. Now, with barely a month until Trump takes office, The Daily Wire reported that the feds are “currently in the process of hiring as many as 1,200 employees to work on … [diversity, equity, and inclusion]—employees who would be…