Education News
Reports on education reform, school choice, and classroom policies. The Daily Signal provides conservative commentary and opinion alongside education news.
-
- Opinion
Supreme Court Declares Racial Preferences in College Admissions Unlawful. Left Melts Down.
The Supreme Court declared on Thursday that racial preferences in college admissions at Harvard College and the University of North Carolina violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution and are against the law. The Left isn’t handling it well. What a surprise! The decision is undoubtedly a huge blow to the racial preferences regime…Jarrett Stepman -
- Opinion
Supreme Court Finally Ends Racist Discrimination in College Admissions
In a decision that will benefit families all across the country and their high school-graduating sons and daughters who aspire to attend college, the Supreme Court has finally fulfilled its duty to uphold the guarantees of equal protection in the 14th Amendment and end the pernicious, morally repugnant racial discrimination practiced by Harvard College and…Hans von Spakovsky -
- Opinion
In Virginia, School Choice Triumphs in GOP Primary Races
Virginia has trailed other states in adopting robust education choice policies. But after the results of last week’s GOP primaries in the commonwealth, that could change. The Virginia General Assembly is nearly evenly divided, with Democrats holding a slight majority in the state Senate (22-18) and Republicans holding a slight majority in the House of…Jason Bedrick -
- Opinion
BREAKING: Supreme Court Bans Racial Preferences in College Admissions
On May 17, 1954, The New York Times reported that the U.S. Supreme Court “set aside” the “separate but equal” doctrine in education in its Brown v. Board of Education ruling. Racial segregation would no longer be permitted in K-12 public schools. On June 29, 2023, the court finally buried the doctrine once and for…Jonathan Butcher -
- News
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 -
- News
Maryland Parents Protest for Religious Opt-Out From Schools’ LGBTQ Curriculum
In an unusual demonstration of unity, Muslims, Jews, and Christians gathered outside the Montgomery County Public Schools’ board meeting Tuesday afternoon in protest of parents’ inability to opt children out of the LGBTQ curriculum. Many of the protesters were parents of children in the Montgomery County public school system. Despite the board meeting and protest…Elise McCue -
- Opinion
Attempt to Quantify Impact, Value of DEI at State Department Is an Epic Fail
Secretary of State Antony Blinken on June 6 informed us that former Ambassador Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley, his department’s first-ever chief diversity and inclusion officer, was leaving the post. Blinken credited her with “a series of other concrete, systemic accomplishments in [diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility].” We now have a two-year track record to assess the “concrete…Simon Hankinson -
- Opinion
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 -
- Opinion
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 -
- News
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 -
- Opinion
House Republicans Expose Left’s DEI Agenda at State Department
The bankruptcy of the Left’s diversity, equity, and inclusion ideology, or DEI, was put on full display this week in the House of Representatives. Republicans not only showed rare pluck in confronting this noxious strategy to use race as a pretext to transform America, but they did it in a way that exposed the strategy’s empty premises. The scene…Mike Gonzalez -
- News
CAUGHT RED-HANDED: University Announces Big Move on Confucius Institute After Republicans Call It Out
A New York university will shut down its Confucius Institute by the end of June after facing intense scrutiny from Rep. Mike Gallagher, chairman of the Select Committee on the Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party. "I’m glad to see Alfred University finally doing the right thing and shutting down its…Samantha Aschieris -
- Opinion
University Erases ‘L’ in LGBTQ, Redefining Lesbians as ‘Non-Men’
The woke well is bottomless. Johns Hopkins University recently updated the “LGBTQ Glossary” in its so-called inclusive language guide with a new definition for “lesbian.” A lesbian, according to the famed Baltimore university’s guide, should be referred to as a “non-man attracted to non-men.” A broad definition, right? The guide states that “while past definitions…Jarrett Stepman -
- Opinion
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 -
- Opinion
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 -
- News
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 -
- News
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 -
- News
3 Arrested After Antifa Clashes With Armenian Parents at California School Board Meeting
Several fights broke out between Antifa and parental rights activists Tuesday night outside the Glendale Unified School District’s administration building in Glendale, California, during a school board meeting discussing LGBTQ+ curriculum. Law enforcement arrested three individuals amid the mayhem after the protest "exceeded the bounds of peaceful assembly," the Glendale Police Department announced Tuesday night….Tony Kinnett -
- News
Antifa Urged to Battle California Parents Over Elementary School’s LGBTQ+ ‘Pride Day’
After parents in Glendale, California, protested a scheduled “Pride Day” at their local elementary school, the Southern California chapter of the violent extremist group Antifa called for progressives to stand up to “hate groups” at a school board meeting Tuesday night. In late May, Glenoaks Elementary School planned and announced a “Pride Day” for students…Tony Kinnett -
- Opinion
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