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    Biden’s Push for ‘Gender-Affirming Care’ Betrays Parental Rights

    Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade through its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a renewed conversation about abortion is front and center all across the country.  And rightfully so, because states will now be forced to confront the question of whether or not they will stand for…
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    Biden’s Executive Actions on Food Stamps, Obamacare, Student Loans Will Balloon Deficit, CBO Says

    A letter from the Congressional Budget Office in response to an inquiry by a Republican congressman from Missouri confirms that the Biden administration’s executive actions will increase cost to federal taxpayers and fuel rising deficits. The response to Rep. Jason Smith from the CBO highlights three major actions taken by the Biden administration—on food stamps,…
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    Cornell University Removes Bust of Abraham Lincoln After Getting 1 ‘Complaint’

    The war on history came for all our past, from Columbus to the Founding Fathers to Abraham Lincoln. Now, college campuses appear to be conducting mop-up operations. The College Fix reports that officials removed a bust of Lincoln from a Cornell University library exhibit after somebody complained. “Someone complained, and it was gone,” Cornell University…
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    Caught Red-Handed: Critical Race Theory Taught at West Point

    Various news outlets—Fox News, The Washington Times, the New York Post, and Breitbart, among others—have reported on a trove of documents obtained by Judicial Watch revealing that the U.S. Military Academy at West Point has been indoctrinating cadets on critical race theory. That’s in spite of claims to the contrary made by various defense and…
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    Best Teachers Could Be Your Parents, ‘Homeschool Awakening’ Documentary Suggests

    Actor Kirk Cameron’s new documentary “The Homeschool Awakening” features 14 homeschooling families. Those families, failed by the public education system, have embarked on a homeschooling journey, and they share how the decision has changed their lives.   Like most other American families, those parents initially sent their children to public school because “it’s just what you do.” The…
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    By Inserting Gender Identity, Team Biden Muddies Title IX’s Protections for Girls, Women at School

    On the 50th anniversary of Title IX protections for girls and women, the Biden administration proposed rule changes in enforcing the law that would have dramatic repercussions for publicly funded schools around the country. The Education Department released a 700-page document Thursday announcing the proposed changes to Title IX regulations. Perhaps most significantly, the changes…
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    Biden Administration Proposes Changing Title IX to Include Transgender Students

    President Joe Biden’s Department of Education on Thursday unveiled proposed changes to Title IX, a landmark civil rights law intended to curb sex-based discrimination in federally-funded education, that would expand the law’s protections for transgender students. The proposed changes would expand protections against discrimination on the basis of sex under Title IX of the 1972 Education…
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    On 50th Anniversary of Title IX, Biden Seeks to Undo Protections for Women

    It’s been 50 years since the U.S. government acted to ensure equal educational opportunities for girls and women through Title IX.  Since put in place as education amendments in 1972, Title IX has prohibited sex-based discrimination in education programs, including competitive sports.  Title IX states: “No person in the United States shall, on the basis…
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    Federal Court’s School Dress Code Ruling Skirts Larger Issues

    In the 1950s, when television was in black and white—as was the distinction between acceptable and unacceptable behavior—comedian Milton Berle would occasionally wear a dress in a skit, causing the studio audience to laugh uproariously. How things have changed. A U.S. court of appeals recently ruled that North Carolina charter day schools cannot have dress…
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    School Counselor Put on Leave After Deriding ‘Gender Ideology’

    A Milwaukee public school counselor was placed on administrative leave after stating she would refuse to support transgender students, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported. The school district announced Friday that Marissa Darlingh was put on leave on June 15, the last day of school, for speaking out against transgender students, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported.  Darlingh’s…
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    Supreme Court Upholds School Choice, Free Exercise in Maine Case

    “The state will take your money, but won’t allow you to use it as you know best,” Amy Carson said, in a stinging rebuke of her home state of Maine last year when legal scholars from the Institute for Justice and First Liberty Institute appealed her case to the U.S. Supreme Court. In a child’s…
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    Concerned Parents: Ask Your Children If They’ve Encountered a Drag Queen at School

    The world continues to change, and as a result, so do our social standards and norms. This change has been a part of the human experience and development since the dawn of creation. However, there are certain standards that have remained untouched, such as the protection of our children and the things they should and…
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    Betsy DeVos: Biden Plans to Radically Change Title IX to Let Biological Men Play Women’s Sports

    Betsy DeVos started fighting for education freedom long before arriving in Washington to serve as Cabinet secretary in President Donald Trump’s administration. But what’s happened in the past couple of years—prompted by COVID lockdowns and a parents’ rights movement—has accelerated the opportunity to give students more options and better schools. “Everything we did was focused…
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    ‘A Drag Queen in Every School’ Is Modern Left’s ‘Chicken in Every Pot’

    For today’s left, it seems that, politically, “A drag queen for every school” has replaced “a chicken in every pot.” Really.  Here’s what Michigan’s Democratic attorney general, Dana Nessel, who is gay, had to say about the trend of bringing drag queen events to schools. “Drag queens make everything better. Drag queens are fun,” Nessel…
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    New Jersey Parent Sues School for Curriculum That Allegedly Discriminates Against White Students

    A parent is suing their child’s school district and its individual administrators in Mountain Lakes, New Jersey, for teaching an educational curriculum that allegedly promotes “anti-racism” and discriminates against white students, according to legal documents. The parent, listed as B.L. for privacy, is suing Mountain Lakes School District for certain parts of its curriculum put in…
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    Student Debt Cancellation ‘Not Fair’ to Taxpayers, Those Who Repaid Loans, Betsy DeVos Says

    Roughly 45 million Americans owe a combined total of $1.7 trillion in student loan debt. If that were distributed evenly among the borrowers, each would owe close to $38,000.  Over the past two years, the federal government has paused collection of student loan payments because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, some Americans contend the government…
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    Parents’ Guide to Children’s Rights Aims to Save America’s Public Schools From CRT

    “The most important battleground in the fight to save our American republic is the public schools.”  So says Kimberly Hermann, general counsel at the Southeastern Legal Foundation, in the introduction to the foundation’s guide for parents, “Your Child’s Rights and What to Do About Them: A Parent’s Guide to Saving America’s Public Schools.”  Hermann’s outlook…
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    Kirk Cameron’s New Documentary Explores World of Homeschooling

    Thanks to virtual schooling during the COVID-19 pandemic, parents were horrified to discover the radical lesson plans their children’s activist teachers were teaching. Lessons on critical race theory and on sexual orientation and gender identity caused parents to realize they would have to take their kids’ education into their own hands. Post-pandemic, the homeschool boom…
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    How Vocational-Technical Schools Are Helping Students Achieve the American Dream

    The Pioneer Institute is out with a new book, “Hands-On Achievement: Massachusetts’s National Model Vocational-Technical Schools,” which finds that vocational-technical high schools have lower dropout rates and on-par test scores with traditional high schools. The Boston-based think tank also makes the case that these high-performing schools in Massachusetts should serve as a national model, both…
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    Ilya Shapiro Resigns at Georgetown Law, Citing ‘Untenable’ Status at School

    Georgetown law professor Ilya Shapiro resigned less than a week after being reinstated by the school. Georgetown Law School placed the constitutional scholar on administrative leave and subjected him to a four-month “investigation” over a tweet. The tweet, which Shapiro deleted and called “inartful,” opposed the idea that a Supreme Court justice should be chosen…
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