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  • Professor Censored Over Mock Land Acknowledgment Speaks Out Against University ‘Orthodoxy’ After Court Win

    A Washington state computer science professor who won a First Amendment lawsuit against his university over its response to his mock land acknowledgement says the campus culture that fueled the controversy remains firmly entrenched. “It’s kind of scary. They broke the law. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the “9th Circuit said you broke the…
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    Trump’s Student Loan Rules Finally Hold Higher Education Accountable. The Left Is Furious.

    The Trump administration put some reasonable limits on federal student loans, and the Left is having a fit about it. According to a Department of Education rule finalized in July, schools will now need to prove that their degrees are paying off for students to ensure that they remain eligible for federal funds. The rule…
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    Parents Who Treat Boys as Boys and Girls as Girls Are Not Abusers, New Bill Declares

    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., introduced a bill Tuesday aiming to prevent child welfare agencies from treating a parent’s refusal to “affirm” a child’s stated transgender identity as child abuse. “The Left’s radical gender ideology is harming children with irreversible treatments and procedures, but in blue states, parents are being punished, and…
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    New York’s Experiment in Governing by Racial Outcomes

    America is about to find out what happens when a municipal government stops merely measuring racial disparities and instead begins organizing its decisions around them. New York City’s Racial Equity Plan, released Sept. 1 by Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration, is the first citywide racial-equity framework in the Big Apple’s history. It implements a 2022 voter-approved…
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    Children Should Not Be Trained to See Parents as the Enemy

    A parent’s first duty is not complicated. It is to love a child, form a child’s character, and prepare that child to be a productive member of society.  Schools exist to help with that work by teaching children. They do not exist to replace it. That distinction is now under pressure. In some academic circles,…
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    The Daily Signal Is Equipping the Next Generation of Conservative Leaders

    The Daily Signal is a leader in conservative media with a mission to present the truth and defend traditional American values. Right now, it is looking to equip the next generation of journalists as part of its spring 2027 internship program.               As a current Daily Signal intern and recent graduate from the University of Minnesota, interning…
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    Education Department Reinstates Title IX Regulations Protecting Women’s Sports and Rejecting Gender Insanity

    Supporters of women’s sports and sex-based protections have reason to celebrate. The Department of Education announced Sept. 28 that it is formally rescinding the Biden administration’s 2024 Title IX rule and reinstating the 2020 Title IX regulations promulgated under the first Trump administration. Ongoing litigation has prevented the Trump administration from being able to formally…
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    Education Department Makes Big Step Toward Protecting Women’s Sports

    In its latest move to protect women’s sports, the Department of Education formally rescinded the Biden administration’s 2024 Title IX rule. “We’re just acknowledging that boys and men are in boys and men’s sports and girls are in theirs,” Secretary of Education Linda McMahon told OutKick. The Biden administration’s rewrite of Title IX redefined sex…
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    Nebraska Volunteer Firefighter Denied Full-Time Job for Being Homeschooled

    THE WASHINGTON STAND—The United States Armed Forces allows homeschoolers to enlist, but the city of Fremont, Nebraska appears to think they are unfit to join their local fire department. Now, the governor’s office is investigating.  Andrew Coates, a 22-year-old volunteer firefighter at Fremont Fire Department, hoped to turn his charity work into a full-time job….
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    Cornell’s University Reform Report Sidesteps the Real Reason Americans Have Lost Trust in Higher Education

    Higher education is suffering through a self-inflicted crisis of declining public confidence. Only now are its faculty members and administrators starting to recognize that fact, but they collectively remain incapable of acknowledging the heart of the issue. That’s my take from a recently released report from Cornell University titled “Report of the Committee on the…
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    The Democrat Plan to Redistribute Wealth to the Wealthier

    Two hypothetical college graduates who are married now have a combined annual income of $240,000; they each earn $120,000 per year. Should an American who graduated from high school but never went to college—and who now works as a delivery truck driver, earning $43,950 per year (the median annual earnings for that job) be forced…
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    University Takes Down LGBTQ Archive Webpage After Pushback From Texas Lawmaker

    Following pushback from a Texas legislator, the University of North Texas has taken down its public-facing LGBTQ Archive page from the university library’s website. Last week, Republican state Rep. Brian Harrison highlighted that the university had an archival collection documenting lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer history on its library website.  According to the now-removed…
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    Victor Davis Hanson: Tribalism Is Tearing America Apart

    Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for the Daily Signal.   I think we should entitle our short video today “Tribalism: Tribalism Doesn’t Work.” And what do I…
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    DOJ Ends ‘Onerous’ Racial Mandates on School Districts

    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division dismissed more than 50 desegregation cases that sat on court dockets for more than half a century. “In this administration, we are ending prolonged federal oversight of these school districts because the effort does not reflect the reality of those classrooms today,” said Assistant…
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    Democrats Boycott Protecting Women’s Sports—Again

    Not a single Democrat actively participated in Wednesday’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on protecting women’s sports. Democrats did not show up, did not fill their two witness seats, or question the witnesses who were impacted by males competing in women’s sports. Democrat Sen. Dick Durbin, the ranking member of the committee, claimed that America does…
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    These Supreme Court Cases Could Reshape Gun Rights, Elections, and Parental Rights

    The Supreme Court will hear arguments this fall in cases involving the First Amendment, the Second Amendment, parental rights, and election integrity. Here are five key cases to watch. 1. Another Test for the Second Amendment On Dec. 2, justices will consider whether state and local governments can ban semiautomatic rifles such as the AR-15…
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    Activist Challenges School Library Books: ‘What in the World Are We Doing?’

    Conservative activist Bonnie Wallace, who has been vocal about sexually explicit books in Texas public schools, is now calling attention to books in school libraries that contain extreme violent content. Wallace has attended multiple school board meetings to show trustees that books containing sexually explicit material are available in their school libraries and should be…
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    ‘WICKED PRESUMPTION’: Social Worker Sues Over School Transgender Policy Requiring ‘a Conspiracy to Lie to Parents’

    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—An Albuquerque social worker is speaking out after suing to block a school district policy, alleging that it violates her First Amendment rights by forcing her to lie to parents about their students’ gender identities. “I’m a social worker. My job is to support … emotional development, mental health, decision-making processes…
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    Putting Law Schools Back on Track

    The U.S. Department of Education says the country’s largest legal association shouldn’t be allowed to accredit law schools. A long track record of ideological bias and a cozy relationship between an accrediting committee and the American Bar Association proves that public officials are correct in their judgment. Even with major changes to the ABA, law…
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    What’s Behind Leftist Opposition to Cost-Cutting Education Reform?

    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The Department of Health and Human Services has received 13,000 comments on its rule to deregulate the federal low-income childcare program, Head Start, many of which bemoan the move to no longer set student-to-teacher ratios. Early childhood education nonprofits have also criticized the decision to remove “evidenced-based student-teacher ratios.” However, there…
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