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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… -
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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… -
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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… -
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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… -
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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…. -
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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… -
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,… -
opinion
What Education Should Look Like: Master and Apprentice
Over the past several months, I’ve been pelted with the same question over and over again: “If America’s public education system is broken, what should our education system look like?” In the education reform and school choice movements, we often reply that education is “whatever you as the parent want it to look like,” yet… -
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Christian Professor Who Nearly Got Fired for Wrongthink on LGBT Issues Now Leads Campus Ministry
ORLANDO, Fla.—A Christian former professor who nearly got fired for ostensibly creating a “suicidal environment” for LGBT students in the classroom is now running an organization dedicated to helping college students maintain their faith in a hostile environment. “We’ve moved beyond, in this country and especially at universities, free speech,” Corey Miller, president and CEO… -
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Chick-fil-A’s Woke Turn Signals Larger Problem of DEI in Corporate America
Chick-fil-A apparently has joined the cultural revolution. Social media was buzzing on Tuesday about Chick-fil-A Inc. announcing the hiring of a vice president of diversity, equity, and inclusion. The announcement made the rounds on Tuesday, though Erick McReynolds has been with the company for 16 years in another capacity and has been involved with DEI… -
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Ohio Bill Would Roll Back DEI in State’s Public Colleges and Universities
Ohio college students should thank Jerry Cirino. The Republican state senator has written a bill designed to spare those students instruction in the type of sordid thinking that sees all of life in terms of group power dynamics, cancels opposing views, preaches color consciousness, and discourages merit. In other words, Cirino wants to eliminate diversity, equity, and inclusion, or… -
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Texas Bill Prohibiting Sexually Explicit Content in Public Schools Heads to Governor’s Desk
A bipartisan bill banning sexually explicit content in public school libraries has passed the Texas Senate and is on its way to the governor’s desk. HB 900, dubbed The READER Act, specifies what “sexual content” is and prescribes actions by Texas public schools to ensure that children aren’t given access to pornographic, sexually explicit, or… -
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Parents Take School Board to Court for Assigning LGBTQ Books Without Their Consent
Six Maryland parents of different religious backgrounds are suing the Montgomery County Board of Education for forcing their children to read LGBTQ “pride” books without parental knowledge or consent. The federal lawsuit comes after the school board in the affluent Maryland county created a list of 13 newly approved “LGBTQ-inclusive” books and informed parents that… -
opinion
Texas Set to Give Boot to Leftist DEI Offices at Public College Campuses
Texas may soon become the second state to eliminate diversity, equity, and inclusion programs from public colleges. In early May, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed legislation to prevent colleges and universities there from using federal or state funds on DEI programs. Like on many other issues, Florida and DeSantis have demonstrated that just a few… -
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Biden’s Message to Black College Graduates: You’re Victims, Not Leaders
I sat in the crowd with thousands of beautiful families waiting to hear a message of inspiration, hope, and a brighter future like I would expect to hear at any commencement speech in America. Instead, sitting in the audience at the historically black Howard University, the graduates, their families, and I heard a message from… -
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LifeWise Academy Brings Bible-based Education to Public School Students During School Hours
Bethany Sanidad, a mom from Ohio, credits LifeWise Academy with changing her son Christian’s life—and by extension her whole family’s outlook on faith. “I imagine Christian and his family sitting in church one day and thinking it all started with LifeWise,” Sanidad told The Daily Signal. “If we didn't have LifeWise offered, we wouldn't be… -
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North Carolina’s Democrat Governor Declares Emergency Over School Choice ‘Scheme’
North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, a Democrat, declared a state of emergency Monday because the state Legislature is expected to override his veto of a school choice bill. “I’m declaring the state of emergency because you need to know what’s happening,” Cooper said during an address in the state capital of Raleigh. “If you care… -
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Why Junior ROTC Programs in US High Schools Are Needed Now More Than Ever
Based on allegations of sex abuse at the hands of instructors, Rep. Jackie Speier, D-Calif., late last year called on the Pentagon to “shut down” the Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (JROTC) program. That sentiment is echoed by critics who further claim JROTC “brainwashes” students with militarism and violence. By way of background, JROTC is… -
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‘I Would Like to Have My Job Back’: School Counselor Sues After Being Fired for Disagreeing With Transgender Policy
PENDLETON, Ind.—An Indiana school district violated a guidance counselor’s right to free speech by retaliating against and ultimately firing her for saying parents should know about their teenage children’s interest in “transitioning” to the opposite sex, the former counselor argues in a lawsuit filed Thursday. Alliance Defending Freedom, a law firm that protects religious liberty… -
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Democratic Attorney General Targets School for Policy Notifying Parents If Their Child Tries to Change Their Gender
New Jersey’s attorney general filed a civil rights complaint Wednesday against Hanover Township Board of Education challenging a policy that advises educators to notify parents if their child is transitioning genders at school. The Hanover Township Board of Education adopted a “Parental Notice of Material Circumstances” policy on Tuesday that requires educators to “say something to the…