Education News
Reports on education reform, school choice, and classroom policies. The Daily Signal provides conservative commentary and opinion alongside education news.
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opinion
University of Michigan Law School Exposed as Rotten to Core
If you want to spend almost $100,000 a year to turn your son or daughter into a radical, America-hating extremist whose goal is to bring down our republic, particularly our supposedly white supremacist legal system, then the University of Michigan Law School is the place to go. This is the last article of a 10-part… -
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BREAKING: Watchdog Says Texas Schools ‘Some of Worst in Country’ in Teaching Critical Race Theory
Public schools in Texas continue to teach racially discriminatory content to children in violation of state law and without parents knowing, Accuracy in Media President Adam Guillette said in an exclusive interview with The Daily Signal. “What we’ve found in Texas is almost worse than anywhere else in the country,” Guillette said, referring to how… -
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Why Is Education Department Afraid of Innovation in Higher Ed?
Online learning has revolutionized higher education, but a recent move by the federal Department of Education is threatening to tear down systems that are helping millions of students learn. An extremely wide diversity of students choose to take online courses or to get entire online degrees. Colleges that offer them need to be nimble as… -
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Major Companies Ditch College Degree as Job Requirement
Major businesses are moving away from requiring college degrees for an increasing number of positions. Instead, they’re focusing on applicants’ skills, experience, passions, and even their cultural fit. Fox News reports that companies such as IBM, Bank of America, Accenture, Walmart, and Google are reducing the number of corporate jobs that require a four-year college… -
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How Discriminatory DEI Ideology Spreads in Federal Bureaucracy
If you’re like most Americans, you’ve heard the acronym DEI. You also may know that it stands for diversity, equity, and inclusion. What you may not know, though, is that those words are as accurate as the word “Democratic” is in the formal name for North Korea, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, or was… -
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School Choice Is Better for Democracy Than Government Schooling
As state after state embraces policies that empower parents with more options in K-12 education, opponents of school choice are claiming that it is a “threat to democracy.” But if anything, school choice is better for democracy than government-run schooling. In Texas, the legislature is considering an education choice bill that would make every K-12… -
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Study Debunks School Choice Critics on Tuition Increase Claims
Critics of school choice often say it leads to higher tuition at private schools, but that doesn’t actually happen, a new study has found. To the contrary, the study by The Heritage Foundation found that school choice significantly held down the cost of tuition of private elementary schools and had no impact on tuition at private high schools. (The Daily Signal is… -
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Parents Who Object to Pornographic Material in School Libraries Aren’t ‘Book Banners’
Randi Weingarten, president of America’s second-largest teachers union, didn’t even wait for Banned Books Week to begin before posting on X: “Texas teacher fired for reading Diary of Anne Frank to class—THIS Speaks for itself!!!” Just the latest example of “book banning” in our schools, it seemed. But like almost every other aspect of overwrought book-banning claims,… -
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Pennsylvania School Board Reverses Decision, Bans Boys From Girls’ Restrooms
A Pennsylvania school board is reversing a prior decision and choosing now to ban boys from girls’ bathrooms and locker rooms, following pressure from parents and students. Last month, the Perkiomen Valley School Board in Montgomery County voted against a policy that would have required students to use bathrooms that correspond to their biological sex. School board… -
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Wisconsin Court Sides With Parental Rights Over School District’s Gender Transition Policy
A school district’s policy “to enable and affirm a minor student’s transition to a different gender identity at school without parental consent violates parents’ constitutional right to determine the appropriate medical and health care for their children,” a Wisconsin court ruled Tuesday. “This victory represents a major win for parental rights,” said Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty Deputy… -
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What K-12 Schools Could Learn About Transparency for Families From Early-Childhood Education
Does anything compare with having the peace of mind of knowing that your child is safe, happy, and learning during the school day? While a parent is working, knowing that your child is getting the care and attention he or she needs while apart from the family is invaluable. Many early-childhood education and care providers… -
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Stop Sanitizing Education: ‘If It’s Not Offensive to Anyone, It’s Probably Not Important Either’
The American education system used to be the envy of the world, and we need to return to the tried and true ways of traditional classical education, according to the founder of a standardized test for classical education that’s an alternative to the College Board’s SAT. “The mainstream education system is at fault in a… -
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Leader of 5th Largest School District in the Nation Signs Pledge From Group Demonizing Moms for Liberty
As Moms for Liberty galvanized concerned parents across the country, a left-leaning group called Defense of Democracy sprouted up to oppose the growing parental rights movement. Now, a Nevada superintendent has become the first top school district leader to sign this new organization’s pledge to put “education professionals” ahead of parents when it comes to… -
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EXCLUSIVE: School Districts With DEI Officers See Worse Black, Hispanic Learning Loss and Secretive Transgender Policies
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Administrators focused on diversity, equity and inclusion have ballooned in public school districts across the country, but their presence doesn’t translate to educational improvement for black and Hispanic students, nor to the inclusion of parents in decisions about their kids’ health and well-being. According to a new report from The Heritage… -
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‘Groundbreaking Legal Victory’: Court Rules School Cannot Trans Kids Without Parental Consent
A Waukesha County Circuit Court ruled Tuesday in favor of Wisconsin parents, deciding that a Wisconsin school district "abrogated" parents' rights when it decided to socially “affirm” their daughter as a transgender boy against their wishes. Represented by Alliance Defending Freedom and the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty, two sets of Wisconsin parents had… -
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‘Schools Not Shelters’: Legislation Would Prohibit Conversion to Housing for Illegal Aliens
Sen. Ted Cruz has introduced a bill that would prevent educational institutions from being turned into shelters for illegal immigrants. The border crisis has placed unprecedented demands on state resources, and the educational experience of taxpayers’ children should not be compromised to accommodate the migrants, according to Cruz’s bill. The legislation serves as the… -
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TRANSGENDER INQUISITION: Newsom Weaponizes Schools Against Non-‘Affirming’ Parents
It’s official: California Gov. Gavin Newsom has launched the transgender inquisition against non-“affirming” parents that I warned about earlier this month. Yet the Democrat found a cunning way to hide it: He made news by vetoing a horrible bill he was expected to sign. When conservatives brand Newsom a radical opponent of parental rights, he… -
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How Marxist Left Captured Higher Education
The mission of a university is to discover truth and transmit that essential knowledge to future generations. That has been achieved by what we call in the West the Socratic dialogue—that is, ferreting out what is good, true, and beautiful by testing ideas in an academic setting. None of that is possible in an educational… -
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GMU’s President Gets It Wrong: DEI Has Overtaken His School
Does having a bevy of officers who push race, sex, and LGBT victim/oppressor theories on university students enhance or detract from their learning? This is the question that George Mason University’s president, Gregory Washington, never addresses in his unusually public criticism of our report for The Heritage Foundation on the extravagant “diversity, equity, and inclusion”… -
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EXCLUSIVE: School District Censored Watchdog Group After It Exposed Teacher’s Tirade Against Parental Rights
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The person behind a popular X (formerly Twitter) account aimed at exposing leftist ideology in schools is threatening legal action after a Maryland school district that has become notorious for clamping down on parents restricted the account's access to what courts have ruled constitutes a public forum. Montgomery County Public Schools…