Parental Rights News
News on parental involvement in education, student privacy, and school policy. The Daily Signal includes conservative commentary and opinion.
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opinion
Indiana Parents’ Rights Over Their Child’s Education Are Threatened. Here’s What Parents Around the Country Need to Know.
Parents and voters are taking every opportunity to reject racially biased teaching and sexually explicit classroom material. Through whistleblower activity and using their right to speak at school board meetings, families are advocating for their students’ interests, and state lawmakers should take notice. Currently, a high-profile legislative proposal in Indiana is going in the wrong… -
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Florida’s Parental Rights in Education Bill Hits Target: Gender Ideology Harms Kids
Children are being targeted with sexual content—not just in social media, but also in school curriculums. As with other recent controversies, however, leaders in Florida are fighting back. Lawmakers in the Sunshine State have introduced a new bill, Parental Rights in Education. If the name doesn’t ring a bell, that may be because big media… -
opinion
We Hear You: In Defense of Charter Schools and Parents’ Rights
Editor's note: One of The Daily Signal's new year's resolutions is to inspire you to write us about our coverage and what's on your minds. So drop a line to [email protected].—Ken McIntyre Dear Daily Signal: Daniel Davis’s podcast interview with charter schools advocate Charles Mitchell (“In Pennsylvania, a War on Charter Schools”) also reflects, although… -
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UN Poses Danger to Free Speech, Parents’ Rights. Here’s How Trump Administration Can Fight Back.
A dangerous alliance between United Nations bureaucrats and LGBT activists poses a new danger to free speech, free exercise of religion, and parental rights—not just for Americans but for people around the world. Under the leadership of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Ambassador Nikki Haley, the Trump administration should strengthen protections of the fundamental… -
opinion
In Government-Controlled Health Care, Bureaucrats’ Whims Trump Parents’ Rights
Alfie Evans, a severely ill 23-month-old British child, recently died. The child was confined by British authorities in a hospital run by the British National Health Service. In commenting on this tragic case, this writer cited the plight of Alfie’s parents—Tom Evans and Kate James—waging a desperate battle with hospital officials in the British courts… -
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Transgender Activists Are Seeking to Undermine Parental Rights
Radical feminists aspire to revolutionize society in three ways. First, they seek to eliminate the different ways boys and girls are socialized, so that they will come to have very similar characters and temperaments. Second, they seek to cultivate financial and emotional independence of women and children from the family. Third, they hope to erase… -
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The Tragic Case of Charlie Gard Highlights the Importance of Parental Rights
The tragic case of Charlie Gard, the British infant who will soon be taken off life support, has exposed the scale of the malfunction in the British family court system. This is a court system driven by ideological professionals and overseen by compliant judges who have lost their moorings in Judeo-Christian values. Charlie is a…