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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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… -
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Evidence Reveals Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin Was Right on DEI. Here’s What Parents and Students Need to Know.
Yes, Virginia, radicals are promoting racial discrimination and drag queens in the Old Dominion’s public schools. Gov. Glenn Youngkin, however, has tried to protect children from sexually explicit content and reject racial prejudice since his first day in office. New research by The Heritage Foundation, parent organization of The Daily Signal, only confirms the… -
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College Admissions Officers Use Pronouns to Give Preferences to Liberals, Study Finds
Why are so many of our institutions captured by people on the fringes of the cultural Left? Two new books, one by Christopher Rufo and another by Richard Hanania, offer comprehensive answers to that question. But a recent study by two economists at West Virginia University provides a microcosmic example of how cultural leftists keep… -
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Cruz Says 2023 ‘Best Opportunity’ for Texas to Pass School Choice Program
Sen. Ted Cruz thinks it’s high time the Lone Star State start providing school choice to its residents. “I think this year is the best opportunity of your and my lifetime for the state legislature to pass a real and serious school choice program, to provide every child in Texas with hope and access to… -
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The Left’s Priesthood: How DEI Offices Weaponize Virginia Universities
Those of us who work in the capital city I refer to as “Mordor” have slim pickings on where to live, and I chose Virginia, which I consider to be the most conservative option. Little did I know, the Old Dominion ranks first in the nation for applying the Left’s most effective tool in weaponizing… -
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Virginia Parents Sue After School Board Fails to Adopt Model Transgender Policies
Two parents filed a lawsuit against the Virginia Beach School Board this week for voting down proposed policies that pertain to keeping parents informed about their child’s identity. The state’s Department of Education released the model policies in July and claimed that this step would “safeguard parent’s rights.” The school board opted out of adopting the policies… -
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Arizona State University’s Racially Biased Training Violates State Law, Watchdog Warns
Arizona State University officials appear to have violated state law by requiring staff to complete “racial equity” training, according to a new report by the Phoenix-based Goldwater Institute. Arizona has stringent laws against imposing training in diversity, equity, and inclusion—called DEI—in taxpayer-funded programs. These laws prohibit the use of taxpayer money for training sessions that…