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opinion
New Kentucky Audit Shows Why Families Need Education Freedom
Kentucky State Auditor Allison Ball’s recent report on Jefferson County Public Schools (JCPS) should alarm every taxpayer and parent in the state. Not only because of the report’s contents, but also because JCPS is the state’s largest school district, serving one in seven students in Kentucky. The audit not only highlights the dire financial situation… -
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In Texas, Parental Rights Are Only as Strong as the Parents Willing to Enforce Them
In 2025, Texas did something parents had spent years demanding: It wrote parents back into their own children’s education. In a single session, lawmakers passed a package of parental rights bills, handed parents real control over the books that sit on school library shelves, and ordered the state to spell out those rights in plain… -
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Gill: ‘Intellectually Incoherent’ Democrats Defending DEI Are on the ‘Wrong Side’
Congressional Republicans are still fighting against illegal diversity, equity, and inclusion policies entrenched in American education institutions. At a congressional hearing on Tuesday titled “Combating DEI in American Institutions,” Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas, analyzed how DEI is illegal and ineffective. After the hearing, he told the Daily Signal that the “intellectually incoherent [Democrats]” were defending… -
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New York Times Countersues Trump Admin in DEI Hiring Case
The New York Times filed a countersuit in response to litigation by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission accusing the media outlet of discriminatory hiring practices. The EEOC sued the Times in May, alleging it discriminated against a white male editor seeking a promotion. The commission asserted that the Times bypassed its standard interview process in… -
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Indiana Watchdog Releases DEI Audit. This Is a Model for States Across the US.
Last year, many Indiana public school teachers promised to end racist diversity, equity, and inclusion practices in schools. If successful, such assurances and the policies that follow would be models for other states. How’s it going? Turns out, the racism in public education runs deep. This week, the Indiana Family Institute released an audit of… -
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What DEI Means to You
To most Americans, diversity, equity, and inclusion is an abstract, boring idea they don’t have time to worry about. But I’ve written a book on it—“The Ten Woke Commandments (You Must Not Obey)”—and I’m here to tell you why you should be paying attention to DEI. DEI means that when you apply for a job… -
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Education Committee Vows to Shift Remaining Ed Dept. Tasks, Programs to HHS, DOJ
A key House committee has rolled out plans to delegate some of the Department of Education’s remaining tasks to other federal agencies, and the measure could reach the chamber floor for a vote as soon as Wednesday. The 10 bills included in the legislative package, released last week by House Education and the Workforce Committee… -
opinion
Title IX’s Failed Experiment: Why Accommodating Sex Differences Beats Engineered Parity
In 2024, a Tunisian biological male defeated a Chinese woman for Olympic women’s boxing gold. The spectacle shocked the world and renewed calls to protect single-sex women’s sports. Yet defending such boundaries in the U.S. under today’s civil rights regime is harder than it should be. Decades of Title IX enforcement have turned a seemingly… -
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Why I’m Picking Up the Mic Charlie Kirk Left for America
My generation will carry the memory of Sept. 10, 2025, with us forever. You probably remember the exact moment you heard Charlie Kirk had been shot during Turning Point’s American Comeback Tour. Each of us made a decision the day Charlie left us. I know I did. Would we let Charlie’s microphone remain silenced, or… -
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K-12 Education Systems Hit With $225 Million Fraud Allegations
A coalition of state financial officers says it uncovered roughly $225 million in alleged fraud in American schools over the past six years, identifying nearly 90 cases involving embezzlement, fake invoices, inflated enrollment, bid-rigging, and kickbacks. As reflected in the new report from the State Financial Officers Foundation and Open the Books, investigators reviewed every… -
opinion
Why Our Kids Don’t Learn
Included in the 2025 One Big Beautiful Bill Act is a dollar-for-dollar tax credit, up to $1,700, for contributions to “Scholarship Granting Organizations” that parents can access and use toward paying for private school tuition and fees and other educational expenses. The provision is constructed such that states must choose to opt in to the… -
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Communism, the Bible, and Personal Financial Literacy to Be Taught in Texas Schools
The Texas State Board of Education passed new measures, which were endorsed by Heritage Action, for K-8 schools that reaffirm the teachings of American history, Western values, Christianity, personal financial literacy, and the downsides of communism. The measures, which include teaching stories referenced in the Bible, will clearly paint the picture of America’s founding history… -
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DeWine Signs Success Sequence Into Law for Students
Heritage Action is celebrating Gov. Mike DeWine’s, R-Ohio, decision to sign into law Tuesday the Success Sequence, a life framework to be taught in grades 6-12. The Center for Christian Virtue also celebrated the move. According to the bill, SB 276, “Success Sequence” is a three-pronged framework to teach students that completing at least a… -
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Bernie Moreno Has Had Enough of Cincinnati’s DEI: ‘Must Be a Better Steward of Public Funds’
Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, is taking issue with a new policy adopted by the Cincinnati City Council, the DEI Procurement Ordinance, calling it “potentially illegal and wasteful” in a July 2 letter to Democrat Mayor Aftab Pureval. Moreno went into detail about the waste involved, writing that “the DEI Procurement Ordinance expands an already bloated… -
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Inspiring the Next Generation of Patriots: Constituting America Brings the Constitution to the Classroom
“Something so beautifully crafted deserves our respect and attention.” So said Carson Quinn when accepting his award for winning Constituting America’s “We the Future” competition, part of the organization’s effort to bring the U.S. Constitution into the classroom. Constituting America offers a variety of awards to grade school, middle school, high school, and college students. The worthy winners exemplify… -
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Truman Scholarship, a Democrat ‘Talent Pipeline,’ on Path to Reform
A key House committee is moving forward with efforts to reform a federally funded scholarship program after extensive reporting from The College Fix uncovered the program’s overwhelming liberal bias. The House Committee on Education and the Workforce advanced New York Rep. Elise Stefanik’s Truman Scholarship Clean House Act, which could soon be brought before the… -
opinion
Head Start Isn’t Really Giving Kids a Head Start. Here’s How to Deal With It.
For many families, summer often means scoping out childcare options while parents continue to work. Some families in low-income neighborhoods turn to Head Start, a program whose very name suggests children should expect to finish their time at one of these centers better prepared for school. But today, after more than 60 years and over $240 billion in spending, the program has fallen well short of that goal. A new Heritage Foundation report reveals a harsh reality: Head Start centers are overregulated, unsafe, expensive, and fail to deliver lasting… -
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Victor Davis Hanson Breaks Down the Decline of Race Relations in America
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. Recently, we’ve had a lot of discussion about racial relations, and the consensus from left to right seems constant and uniform… -
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The Mountain States Policy Center: Teaching Liberty Through Competition
On May 2, 2026, teams from Idaho, Montana, Washington, and Wyoming came together at the Idaho State Capitol to battle for the “We the Students: Mountain West Civics Cup.” The event was a regional high school competition aimed at engaging students in the study of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights. Mountain States Policy Center staged the event with the help of a $50,000 grant from… -
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GOP Lawmakers Move to Scrap Federal Rule Critics Say Unfairly Targets Career Schools
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Rep. Mark Harris, R-N.C., is set to introduce a bill to repeal a federal rule skewing higher education funding. Currently, career and technical schools are being singled out while traditional public and nonprofit colleges and universities are exempt. “Washington should not pick winners and losers in higher education,” Harris told the…