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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opinion
We Hear You: Parents Must Fight to Save Public Schools
Editor's note: The Daily Signal's audience sounds like it's had enough with parents being marginalized or criminalized as the left seeks to transform public schools. Here's a sampling from the mailbag at [email protected].—Ken McIntyre Dear Daily Signal: It was appropriate for conservative congressmen such as Rep. Jim Jordan to grill Attorney General Merrick Garland during… -
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How Parents’ Battle Over Critical Race Theory Swung Virginia’s Election for Youngkin
Education, some parents say, was the central issue that swung Virginia’s gubernatorial election to red. Republican candidate Glenn Youngkin defeated Democrat Terry McAuliffe in November to become Virginia’s next governor. Youngkin’s win was “an alarm bell for President [Joe] Biden and the Democrats heading into next year’s midterm elections,” ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos said. Youngkin’s… -
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Students at Maryland High School Shown Thanksgiving Video Depicting Pilgrims as Oppressors
The Howard Zinn-ification of American history has now been fully embraced by America’s institutions. It’s not just on college and university campuses where the late Marxist professor’s anti-American history is popular. An anonymous tip to The Daily Signal on Monday revealed that a video depicting the Pilgrims as one-dimensional oppressors was shown to students at… -
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Oxford High School Shooting: The Signs Weren’t Missed, They Were Ignored
As has been the case with so many other school shootings over several years, last week’s murder spree at Oxford High School in suburban Detroit might have been avoided if actions had been taken in the face of several obvious warning signs. Ethan Crumbley, 15, is charged with murdering four of his fellow students and… -
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Parents Across Country Sue Schools Over Clandestine Gender Transitions
The lawsuit filed Nov. 17 by two public interest law firms against the Kettle Moraine School District in Wisconsin over the clandestine social transition of a 12-year-old girl marks the latest in a series of cases where school officials allegedly initiated social gender transitions without parental consent. The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty, one… -
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Mom Asks Judge to Dismiss Lawsuit Filed by Teachers Union When She Looked Into Content of Lessons
A mother’s fight for transparency in public schools continues in a Rhode Island courtroom. “Parents have an absolute right to request public information about public education and what their children will learn in school,” Nicole Solas, a mother of two young children, told The Daily Signal in an email Thursday. The state affiliate of the… -
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‘Education Lifted Me Out of Poverty’: Winsome Sears Wants to Reform Schools, Empower Parents
Winsome Sears made education a centerpiece of her successful campaign for lieutenant governor in Virginia. Now, as she prepares to take office, the mother and Marine Corps veteran is promising to challenge the status quo and advocate for parents and children. “Education lifted me out of poverty and education will lift everybody,” Sears, a Republican,… -
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Catholic University Celebrates Painting of George Floyd as Jesus Christ, Releases Report on Racism
A painting depicting George Floyd as Jesus Christ hangs in two locations at The Catholic University of America, The Daily Signal has learned. The artist repeatedly has indicated that his painting depicts both Floyd and Jesus. “It is just another symptom of the liberalization and secularization of our campus,” a junior at Catholic University tells… -
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Meet a Candidate Who Won School Board Seat in Deep Blue Minnesota by Opposing Critical Race Theory
Minnesota’s largest school district has a new, conservative school board member. Matt Audette, a married father of two high school-age boys, won a seat representing his area after campaigning against critical race theory in schools. The Anoka-Hennepin School District, which includes suburbs of Minneapolis, comprises 34 schools and 37,880 students. Three of the six seats… -
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Homeschooling Is on the Rise. Here Are 4 Tips to Effectively Homeschool Your Children.
I wish I had been given more advice about homeschooling when I first started about eight years ago. I didn’t know the first thing about home education. I felt unsure and nervous. The weight of responsibility on my shoulders was nerve-racking. I can’t say homeschooling is easy, but it is rewarding. If you are thinking… -
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Connecticut Parents Claim Schools Teach Kindergarteners About Transgenderism
Connecticut parents claimed a school district is indoctrinating elementary school students about transgenderism, including with a book for kindergarteners. Officials of the West Hartford Public Schools told parents that they could not opt out from the materials, according to a release from advocacy group Parents Defending Education. The reading list for kindergarteners included the book “Introducing… -
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Parent Activists Warn That Fight for Education Far From Over
Parent activists, school board members, and a congressman gathered Monday in Washington to remind Attorney General Merrick Garland and the Justice Department that the fight for education is only just beginning. “Whether it’s radical transgender policies in our schools, whether it’s putting masks on our children, which is paramount to child abuse, whether it’s forcing… -
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The Rise of ‘Chief Diversity Officers’ at K-12 Schools
Diversity officers slowly are corrupting K-12 education by bringing diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives into schools and teaching children divisive topics such as critical race theory, a Heritage Foundation scholar says. A new report from Jay Greene, a senior research fellow in education at Heritage, highlights how harmful these diversity officers and their initiatives can… -
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Future of Schools and Critical Race Theory After Youngkin’s Victory
Following Republican Glenn Youngkin’s victory on Nov. 2 over Democratic incumbent Gov. Terry McAuliffe for the governorship of Virginia and Democratic incumbent Gov. Phil Murphy’s narrow win for the governorship of New Jersey, commentators on both sides—conservatives and liberals—are interpreting the outcomes from opposing perspectives. Education was at the center of the gubernatorial contests this… -
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School Choice Denied to Most Rhode Island Families, but Not These Union Teachers
A local chapter of the nation’s largest teachers union has acknowledged the importance of school choice, at least for its own members. Thanks to an agreement quietly reached between the South Kingstown, Rhode Island, chapter of the National Education Association and the South Kingstown School Department, teachers there now have access to an exclusive school… -
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How Montana’s Revamped Focus Makes for Better K-12 Civics Education
Civics education has become a flashpoint in American politics. Many schools are asking how students should learn about themselves and their country in a way that fully encompasses American history, both good and bad. Montana Superintendent of Public Instruction Elsie Arntzen recently updated the state’s standards for social studies to better teach students about civics… -
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Fact Check: Is Critical Race Theory Taught in Virginia Schools?
Throughout election night, as it became clear Republican Glenn Youngkin would win the Virginia governor’s race, numerous left-leaning media commentators insisted that critical race theory isn’t being taught in Virginia public schools. Various media personalities—some professing to be on the news side, others on the opinion side—repeated the assertion both before and after the election… -
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Virginia Election Proves That Americans Reject Critical Race Theory
Critical race theory proponents have just learned the hard way the folly of their strategy. The American people reject the politicization of the classroom, the office, the military, and the houses of worship that has exploded since the civil disturbances of 2020. But the lesson cuts both ways. Now, politicians who have discovered they can… -
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Taxpayers Take School Board to Court for Trying to Silence Parents’ Criticism
Four taxpayers in Pennsylvania have decided enough is enough after footing the bill for a school board attorney who told them that the school system could limit their First Amendment rights. The taxpayers filed a free speech lawsuit in federal court that could set a precedent for invalidating policies that shield both school administrators and… -
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Schools Chief Complained That Sheriff Rejected Request to Monitor Parents as ‘Extraordinary’
A county schools superintendent in Virginia complained to the county sheriff’s office over its rejection of “extraordinary” security requests for school board meetings in August, documents reviewed by The Daily Caller News Foundation show. Loudoun County School Superintendent Scott Ziegler requested personnel, a K-9 sweep, and undercover presence from the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office, which…