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West Virginia University president E. Gordon Gee backed conservative-bullying professor Daniel Brewster on Twitter last night.

Iowa State University’s president admitted that last-minute security fee hikes were “standard practice” at the college.

The student organizer behind MILO’s Iowa State University event next week has spoken out against the college’s last minute security fee increase, claiming that their actions were “intentional.”

A conservative website called out four professors at the University of Texas at Austin on a watchlist that seeks to “expose and document college professors who discriminate against conservative students, promote anti-American values, and advance leftist propaganda in the classroom.”

People in the north of England voted for Brexit in protest at the poor schools London politicians have given them, the outgoing head of school inspection body Ofsted has said.

Administrators at Minnesota State University have softened security fees for an upcoming MILO event, which were previously raised at the last minute.

MILO called out Daniel Brewster, a WVU professor with a reputation for punishing conservative students who disagree with his progressive values.

A new survey, conducted by the Palo Alto-based Learning Policy Institute, has found that there is a shortage of qualified teachers in the Golden State.

A school district in Oregon has decided to ban religious-themed decorations in the classroom this holiday season.

A North Carolina school board has upheld the ten-day suspension without pay of a high school teacher who stomped on the American flag as part of a lesson on the First Amendment.

Notre Dame law professor and noted Catholic educator Gerard Bradley says it’s time for Donald Trump to focus on eliminating the Common Core standards by lighting a fire under the grassroots movement that drew attention to the federal reform some years ago.

The University of California has released a set of “principles” in which it declares that it will protect illegal aliens affiliated with the UC system from efforts by the federal government to enforce immigration laws.

Dr. Larry Arnn explains that because Hillsdale rejects federal funding, it enjoys the freedom to teach its students what they need to know without interference and mandates from the centralized bureaucracy that is the U.S. Department of Education.

Texas State University students hopped on the collegiate “sanctuary campus” bandwagon, petitioning their administrative leaders to declare the school a safe haven for illegal alien students, staff, and community members.

Labour’s Shadow Secretary of Education has said a plan to give British children priority access to the best school places, before illegal migrants, is “disgusting” and anyone who supports the idea is against “British values”.

The University of Mississippi Student Body Senate has pulled a resolution which would have created a “sanctuary campus” for illegal immigrant students and banned federal immigration officials from stepping foot on campus after an overwhelming backlash.

A high school teacher in Texas faces multiple charges for allegedly having sex with two students in unrelated sexual encounters over two school years.

Pupils in Valenciennes were encouraged to think about the “feelings, pains, and hopes” of migrants, in workshops which were instead supposed to educate and spread awareness about journalism.

U.S. universities are rapidly increasing the number of fee-paying foreign students who are being fast-tracked into the professional jobs sought by American graduates.

The same MIT professor who called Americans “too stupid” to understand Obamacare has joined fellow professors in signing a letter to protest Stephen K. Bannon and other appointees by President-elect Donald J. Trump.

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana – During a demonstration on the Tulane University campus, protesters largely from social justice organizations demanded white students be held accountable for perceived racism on campus.

A school district in Buffalo, New York offers services in 85 different languages for immigrants and refugees who enroll in school.

Harvard University has vowed that it will protect illegal aliens on campus, including who are enrolled as students, according to the Harvard Gazette. The effort is in anticipation of President-elect Donald Trump’s promise to enforce immigration laws.

In a Common Core world where education is driven by college and career readiness mandates, incessant testing, and social and emotional learning, one independent filmmaker tackles the education establishment in a new documentary, Self-Taught, which zeroes in on how home school kids turn out, explores what defines “success,” and bucks the narrative pounded into parents’ heads that children cannot thrive outside the conventional institutionalized school system.

Leaders of the Michigan grassroots group battling the highly unpopular Common Core standards reform are urging President-elect Donald Trump to “drain the swamp” and “pull the plug” on his education secretary pick, Betsy DeVos.

Following other liberal American universities, Vanderbilt students are now demanding sanctuary city policies for their campus to ensure illegal immigrant students are not deported.

The Bridge International Academies, a set of schools funded by Microsoft founder Bill Gates and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, have been ordered to close by the Ugandan government, after they were branded by authorities as “unsanitary” and “unqualified.”

Two ringleaders within the Trojan Horse plot to impose Islamic values on Birmingham state schools are once again teaching, despite being banned from the profession.

President-elect Donald Trump’s education secretary choice Betsy DeVos backed Marco Rubio during the GOP primary race, referring to Trump as an “interloper” who would never become the Republican Party’s nominee.

Updated building codes in Texas require new school construction to also include tornado shelters but the cost of safety has a hefty price tag for taxpayers. Those storm safe rooms can run up to 30 percent higher in already costly construction.

You might have thought about it, heard it. A lot. You might have even felt it: Dictionary.com’s word of the year is “xenophobia.”

A group of veterans is planning to protest Hampshire College’s decision to remove the U.S. flag from campus Sunday with hundreds of U.S. flags.

Michigan supporters of the Common Core standards are praising President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to head up the U.S. Department of Education.

A study by Stanford University claims that most students can’t tell the difference between real news articles and sponsored content.

A British teachers’ union are drafting new speech guidelines in response to MILO’s attempt to speak at his former school in Kent.

On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” school choice advocate, former Obama education transition team member, the Education Policy Committee for Obama’s 2008 campaign, and former DC City Councilman Kevin Chavous (D) praised Education Secretary nominee Betsy DeVos