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    Parents Are Going on Offensive to Fight Indoctrination in Education

    Across America, states have gone on the offensive, targeting the radical sex and “gender” curriculums in grade schools. These proposals follow increasing calls from parents to reject sexually explicit content unearthed in public school classrooms. The Parental Rights in Education law, recently signed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, sparked heated conversations throughout the nation regarding…
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    Oral Arguments at Supreme Court Offer Glimmer of Hope for Praying Coach in First Amendment Case Against School District

    In 2008, when coach Joseph Kennedy knelt in silent prayer at the 50-yard line of the Bremerton High School football field after a game, he likely never anticipated his subsequent firing would take him all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.  And it’s been a long journey, to say the least.  First Liberty Institute,…
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    I’m a Full-Time Working Mom. Here’s Why I Love Homeschooling My Daughter. 

    Any working mom can attest that work never quite turns off.   We don’t necessarily get to sleep in on the weekends or kick back and sip wine when we get home from our jobs.   Most likely, we’re cooking dinner, giving baths, refereeing fights, negotiating on bedtime or television, reading stories, and trying to accomplish the…
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    Virginia School Administrator Says She Was Harassed, Forced Out for Questioning Critical Race Theory

    A former administrator at a Virginia school is suing her county school board for creating an atmosphere of racial division and harassment that forced her to leave her job.  Emily Mais was an assistant principal at Agnor-Hurt Elementary School in Charlottesville until she resigned in September 2021 after expressing concerns over mandatory, race-based teacher training. …
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    Motherhood, Career, Homeschooling: Is It Possible to Do It All?

    Being a wife and mother while working full time is a lot. Add homeschooling to the mix? Now you have entered superhero status in our book.  Marguerite Bowling, a senior communications manager at The Heritage Foundation, is actually no superhero, but she and her husband are committed to their children’s education and upbringing. When Bowling…
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    A Critical Look at Critical Race Theory in America’s Classrooms

    “There is little to no evidence that critical race theory itself is being taught to K-12 public school students,” The Associated Press wrote recently. If that’s true, why would the National Education Association, the nation’s largest teachers union, invest in a campaign to keep the theory in K-12 instruction? That is, how could the union…
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    School District Trains Teachers to Become ‘Anti-Racist,’ Subvert Curriculum ‘Rooted in Whiteness’

    A school district in Ohio instructed teachers on becoming “co-conspirators” in "anti-racism" while teaching a “curriculum rooted in whiteness,” according to a concerned resident's presentation to the group Parents Defending Education. Mentor Public Schools in Mentor, Ohio, told teachers in a training program, titled “Curriculum for Social Justice: Examining What We Teach and How to…
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    More States Move to Affirm Parental Rights in Education

    Florida has been the center of national attention for weeks over its new Parental Rights in Education law, but it’s not alone: Across the country, state lawmakers are introducing similar legislation.  Florida’s law—inaccurately dubbed “the Don’t Say Gay law” by opponents—prohibits “classroom instruction by school personnel or third parties on sexual orientation or gender identity”…
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    Biden Administration Extends Freeze on Student Loan Payments… Again

    Student loan debt holders are getting another extension on their break from payments, but that doesn’t mean no one’s paying. American taxpayers are picking up the bill, amid news that inflation soared a shocking 8.5% compared to this time last year. The announcement from the U.S. Department of Education states that the pause on student…
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    Why Parental Rights Activists Use Term ‘Grooming’ in Support of Laws to Protect Kids

    Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the state’s Parental Rights in Education bill more than two weeks ago, but that hasn’t halted the left’s outrage about it. The bill, signed March 28, “prohibit[s] a school district from encouraging classroom discussion about sexual orientation or gender identity in primary grade levels,” but the left almost immediately dubbed…
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    How Left’s Obsession With Critical Race Theory Hurts Minority Students

    The left makes a big deal about teaching race in America. From the 1619 Project to critical race theory, the left claims that America is irredeemably steeped in racism and that race should be the central focus of all aspects of American life. Delano Squires, a homeschool father and scholar at the pro-America education group…
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    Political Deck Stacked Against Parents Running for School Board

    “I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.” Those were the famous words of Terry McAuliffe’s failed gubernatorial campaign in Virginia last fall. The past two years of the COVID-19 pandemic exposed just how little control parents have over their children’s public school education. And their powerlessness did not end when…
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    Fed Up, These Parents Sue Baltimore Public Schools

    As in so many other places around the country, the public education system in Baltimore is failing the city’s children. Public schools have been failing American students for decades, but the issue is pronounced in Maryland’s biggest city.  Stories abound of Baltimore’s momentous failures to teach its kids. One report details how a student graduated…
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    Youth Mental Health Crisis Gives More Urgency to School Choice Movement

    Parents have spent the last two years dealing with lawmakers’ and school officials’ indecisions about school reopenings, a nightmare for many. Public officials have constantly alternated between remote and in-person learning, masking and unmasking, social distancing and not. Now, many families are rejoicing as they see states lift their remaining COVID-19 restrictions. Getting their children caught…
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    No, School Boards Are Not ‘Banning Books’

    Accusations of left-wing free speech authoritarianism—whether through corporate restrictions, the state targeting “misinformation,” the shouting down of dissent in universities, or the canceling of dissenting voices—are well-documented. Attempting to even the ledger, liberals have begun alleging that conservatives are engaging in “book bans” in public school districts. The newest outrage on this front comes from…
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    The Consequences of Victimhood-Based Education Are Deadly

    Last month’s attempted assassination of a Jewish politician in Louisville, Kentucky, by a Black Lives Matter activist has gone largely unreported by the press. The incident and the general reaction to it speaks volumes about the relationship between the U.S. and Israel. The shooter, Quintez Brown, was open about his views. In an op-ed, he…
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    How Student Protesters Killed Free Speech at Yale Law School

    Free speech is under fire at America’s universities. It’s an open secret that liberals dominate academia and wield their power with impunity on college campuses. But recently, radical leftists have become more brazen with their attempts to silence speech and organizations they don’t like. During a recent bipartisan free speech event at Yale Law School,…
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    Yes, Schools Are Secretly Trying to ‘Gender Transition’ Kids, and It Must Be Stopped

    Abigail Martinez called the pain of losing her daughter a pain with no name. “Even when you breathe, it hurts,” she said during an event on radical gender ideology in schools. Her daughter, Yaeli, began struggling with depression in the seventh and eighth grades after classmates criticized her appearance. Abigail described her daughter as a…
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    Movement for Restoring Parental Rights in Schools Represents the Majority

    The grassroots parental rights movement is picking up steam, and it’s pushing legislators to act. On Tuesday, the Kansas Legislature passed a “parents’ bill of rights” that would allow parents to “inspect any materials, activities, curriculum, lessons, syllabi, surveys, tests, questionnaires, examinations, books, magazines, handouts, professional development and training materials and any other materials or…
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    Georgia’s ‘Mathematics Equity’ Program Told Educators to Teach CRT-Aligned Curriculum to Remove ‘Bias’ From Classrooms

    Georgia’s Department of Education held math equity summits in 2019 and 2020 that instructed state educators to stop grouping students by ability and prioritize their work as educators around equity, according to materials provided to the Daily Caller News Foundation by Heritage Action for America. (Heritage Action for America is the grassroots partner organization of…
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