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A student at Omaha-area Gretna High School in Nebraska says that she has been discriminated against as a result of administrators denying her the right to form a school-sponsored Students for Life club at the school.

Reacting to King’s remarks, Naomi Riall, who homeschools in North Carolina, tells Breitbart News she wonders if the education secretary has “some master list containing this mysterious range of options. Perhaps I fall into the ‘very intentional’ category, but there are so many opportunities,” she says.

If one Texas lawmaker has his say on police-community relationships, it could become a high school graduation requirement that ninth grade students learn how to properly interact with law enforcement.

A Florida high school is looking to punish three students who allegedly wore Ku Klux Klan costumes to school.

In a break with the recent attacks on our national anthem, when a sound system broke down just as a high school volleyball game was set to begin, instead of ignoring the national anthem, the whole gym full of teenagers raised their voices to sing “The Star-Spangled Banner.”

A historian has slammed the double standards employed in French schools which present Muslim conquerors as peaceful and brilliant and Christians as backwards oppressors.

“I would love to see the Clinton administration come and make college free for students coming from families earning less than $125,000,” Cal Professor Nicholas Dirks says. “But I don’t think it’s going to happen.”

A New Jersey teacher was removed from the classroom Wednesday afternoon after officials found 9/11 conspiracy links on his section of the school website.

A Portland, Oregon, elementary school has given permission to a Satanist group to host an after school club for kids, a report says.

University of Tennessee law professor Glenn Reynolds, creator of the Instapundit blog, will not receive disciplinary action for his tweets relating to Charlotte protestors, The College Fix reports.

Archaeology students at one of Britain’s leading universities have been given permission to skip lectures if they feel they might be “triggered” by upsetting material like the scary skulls of dead people or traumatising accounts of how they met their ends.

There was some disappointment that neither Donald Trump nor Hillary Clinton was asked about their views on education during the debate Monday evening. “K-12 education barely merited a mention in the first presidential debate Monday night,” writes Alyson Klein at

A New York teacher is facing backlash after she called her students “racist” in a Facebook post.

A Black Lives Matter flag is generating controversy on University of Vermont’s campus for flying next to an American flag.

A student art installation at Temple University curiously reads, “White People. Do Something,” and has provoked polarizing reactions across social media.

As Reuters observes, when Coleman’s College Board set out to redesign the SAT to align it with Common Core, the new exam was supposed to reflect more “real world applications” than the test’s prior versions.

‘Just love, man. Love. Just love. Love everybody,” concluded this bright young thing from Florida State University in Tallahassee.

New York State parent activists who have been battling the Common Core standards say the announcement that the state’s education department will be making changes to its Common Core Learning Standards (CCLS) amounts to “only words.”

Ivanka Trump held a question-and-answer session with students who asked her if she plans to take a government position if her father is elected president. She responded, “We’ll see,” but added she is a mother of three children and runs two businesses.

Attempts by universities to divest from Israel “should be met with a similar counter response from alumni and donors,” internationally acclaimed attorney Alan Dershowitz told The Algemeiner on Thursday.

Donald J. Trump, the GOP nominee for president, rallied with supporters in Chester Township, Pennsylvania with his call for a law and order program that protects all citizens and a new plan to drive down the cost of public college tuition.

A campaign initiated by the National Association for Bilingual Education and the Santa Clara County Office of Education says a teacher who mispronounces a student’s name is causing a negative emotional state that can lead to poor academic success.

A professor at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington took to social media to brag about destroying pro-Trump chalkings that appeared last week on her campus.

Two Florida high school students received online death threats after posting images online of themselves as Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and “the wall.”

A Florida high school is backtracking its decision to deny a boy the chance to run for homecoming queen because of his gender.

Northwestern University President Morton Schapiro blasted critics of safe spaces and trigger warnings on college campuses as “lunatics.”

GOP nominee Donald Trump has named noted Common Core critic Williamson (Bill) Evers to his presidential transition team, Education Week reports.

A North Carolina history teacher is facing backlash after he stomped on the American flag as part of a lesson on the First Amendment.

Tuesday on MSNBC’s “With All Due Respect,” National Education Association (NEA) labor union president Lily Eskelsen García said because of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s “effect,” schools are seeing that “kids are bullying other kids because of their ethnicity” and 

First Lady Michelle Obama served as host at a Broadway concert for the spouses of U.N. leaders as part of her Let Girls Learn initiative that promotes the education of girls in countries whose cultural traditions prevent their access to higher learning.

John Banzhaf, public interest law professor at George Washington University Law School, joined Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Tuesday to discuss his recent column about demands that Milo “promise to abstain from hate speech” at his scheduled speaking engagement at GWU or be banned from appearing at the university.

NBC is offering “gender fluid” advocate Jacob Tobia the opportunity to explain what the term “cisgender” means, and to promote the narrative that transgender is “normal.”

In his latest talk at the University of Houston as part of his ‘Dangerous Faggot Tour,’ Breitbart Tech editor Milo Yiannopoulos said that one of the ways the left can defeat the alt-right would be with the criminalization of Black Lives Matter.

The University of California Berkeley has reinstated a student-taught course, “Palestine: A Colonial Settler Analysis,” after suspending the class due to concerns that it was little more than anti-Israel propaganda, and complaints from Jewish groups.

An illegal immigrant from Mexico is attending Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. for only $11.50 this semester, as he’s receiving financial aid to cover the more than $30,000 tuition.

Two Alabama schools were put on lockdown Monday after several social media posts and a phoned-in threat warned that clowns might show up at the schools.