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Republicans Promise National Education Fight in Midterms

Seizing on the fervor surrounding Virginia Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin’s unlikely victory in a blue state, Republicans across the country gearing up for the midterms are promising a major education reform push, focused on parental rights and educational standards.

US President Joe Biden(C) and First Lady Jill Biden(R) visit the classroom of fifth-grade

Violence Rattles Los Angeles Public Schools amid Defunding the Police

Violent crime has rattled Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) since the return to in-person classes in August as the district voted to slash the police budget amid the “defund the police” movement, according to an investigation conducted by CBS Los Angeles (CBS2).

Black Lives Matter-Los Angeles supporters protest outside the Unified School District head

Republican Glenn Youngkin Won in Two Democrat-Controlled U.S. House Districts in Virginia

With Virginia’s election results coming in early Wednesday morning, showing a Republican sweep of all three statewide races as well as wresting majority control of the House of Delegates, Democrat U.S. Reps. Abigail Spanberger (VA) and Elaine Luria (VA) now represent districts won handily by Republican Governor-elect Glenn Youngkin, according to data from the Virginia Public Access Project (VPAP).

Rep. Elaine Luria, D-Va., right, followed by Rep. Abigail Spanberger, D-Va., left, leave a

Election Overview: Virginia State House Up for Grabs After Two Years of Democrat Control

With Virginia’s statewide election coming to a close Tuesday and the ever-tightening governor’s race between former Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) and Republican businessman Glenn Youngkin being considered a national bellwether coming into the 2022 midterms, control of the Commonwealth’s House of Delegates also remains a ripe opportunity for Republicans to thwart the Old Dominion’s leftward shift after two years of complete Democrat control of government.

RICHMOND, VA - JANUARY 08: Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates Eileen Filler-Corn (

Ronald Reagan’s Education Secretary Launches Curriculum to Teach American Greatness

Ronald Reagan Education Secretary William J. Bennett has joined forces with the Today Foundation and other education experts to develop The Story of America, a history and civics-based curriculum aimed at combatting the “anti-American ideology that radically misrepresents U.S. history” that has taken over current public education.

WASHINGTON - OCTOBER 20: William Bennett, former education secretary and host of a conserv

Alexandria City Public Schools: ‘White Teachers Need Anti-Racist Therapy’

Virginia’s Alexandria City Public Schools (ACPS) aspiring to pursue a no-holds-barred form of Critical Race Theory indoctrination scheme, telling its teaching staff to read the widely discredited New York Times ‘1619 Project,’ and endorsing the message “white teachers need anti-racist therapy.”

US President Donald Trump stands with teachers and others to say the pledge of allegiance