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Despite the fact that teachers union bosses were all in for Hillary and made a heavy push for members to jump on the Clinton bandwagon, exit polls revealed that a large number of teachers ignored their leaders and voted for Trump. Now union officials are engaging in finger pointing and recriminations.

Anti-Common Core grassroots groups of parents and teachers urged Donald Trump to abandon DeVos as his choice, citing her support for the education reform policies of pro-Common Core Jeb Bush and her influence through the Great Lakes Education Project (GLEP) in favor of Common Core.

Student protesters at George Washington University claim the use of pro-Trump campus police officers to protect the community is an “act of violence” committed by the administration against its students.

Michigan Republican mega donor Betsy DeVos, whose husband’s family founded Amway, is reported to be on President-elect Donald Trump’s short list of candidates to head up the U.S. Department of Education.

Former Washington, D.C. chancellor of schools Michelle Rhee announced on Twitter Tuesday that she is “not pursuing” the position of U.S. Secretary of Education in the Trump administration.

The success rate for prospective lawyers that took the California Bar Exam this July slid to just 43 percent receiving a passing score on the 2016 test.

Hampshire College has decided not to fly the American flag or any other flag on its campus after a flag was burned the night before Veterans’ Day.

The co-founder of Hoosiers Against Common Core says conservative icon and Donald Trump supporter Phyllis Schlafly would be troubled to learn Trump’s reported short list of education secretary candidates consists of many Common Core and Jeb Bush supporters.

243 students have signed an open letter condemning Simon Langton Grammar School for Boys for banning Breitbart Senior Editor and ex-pupil at the school, Milo Yiannopoulos.

A federal judge has rejected the Obama Administration’s request to stay part of an injunction blocking the President’s transgender public school policy. The federal government wanted the Court to rule that the block against Obama’s directive to have a gender fluid school bathroom and facilities policy applied only to the 13 states that brought the lawsuit against the federal government.

Professors at the University of New Hampshire are calling for two Trump-supporting students to be expelled for counter-protesting an anti-Trump rally dressed as Richard Nixon and Harambe.

The American Family Association (AFA) is urging President-elect Donald Trump to choose an education secretary who not only is against the Common Core standards, but also is committed to getting the federal government out of education policy.

A humanities course at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, asks students to reconsider the way that they think about their country by arguing that the Founding Fathers were ‘terrorists’ and that wealthy CEOs should be in prison. A report by

The question of how one Texas school district plans to pay for its $1.35 million state-of-the-art jumbotron system exploded when four newly-elected board members filed a lawsuit to stop a vote they believed would have saddled area taxpayers with those costs.

Another Texas lawmaker pre-filed a bill intended to halt rampant teacher-student sexual misconduct plaguing the state’s schools.

Former Washington, D.C., schools chancellor Michelle Rhee is reportedly on the short list of candidates President-elect Trump is considering for U.S. Secretary of Education, but her view of school choice is that it should be “heavily regulated,” meaning that private and charter schools that accept vouchers would come under greater regulation.

Two Texas high school student face disciplinary action after staging a mock assassination of President-elect Donald Trump for their English class presentation.

The Texas State Board of Education ended a months-long debate and voted unanimously to reject a textbook intended for use in a Mexican American studies elective.

David Vetter, born in 1971 with severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID)—a hereditary disease dramatically weakening the immune system and incurable at the time—died at age twelve. Spending his short life living inside a plastic bubble that sought, unsuccessfully in the end, to protect him from the world of germs outside, he was dubbed “the bubble boy.”

President-elect Donald Trump is reportedly meeting Friday with Democrat Michelle Rhee, the former Washington, D.C., schools chancellor and potential candidate for the post of U.S. secretary of education.

The use of the levers of federal and executive power Democrats have created for years against them by Trump and the Republican House and Senate is likely.

An organization of parent activists, retired teachers, and other professionals from around the nation has released an open letter to President-elect Donald Trump, urging him to do all within his power to return control of education to parents.

A Baltimore city teacher has been fired a day after a video surfaced of her calling a room full of black students a racial slur, the Huffington Post reported.

A Rutgers University professor who teaches a course called “Politicizing Beyoncé” was taken by New York Police Department officers to a New York City hospital for a psychiatric evaluation after a student alerted campus police to his tweets threatening to kill white people.

Democrat Eva Moskowitz says she won’t be President Donald Trump’s Secretary of Education, reports the New York Post.

As a part of a slew of requests and demands in response to the outcome of last week’s presidential election, students and faculty at Bucknell University are demanding the administrators allocate money to provide undocumented students with equal access to financial aid.

The United Educators of San Francisco, the union that represents teachers in the city’s public schools, released a controversial guide Wednesday to teaching public school children about Donald Trump’s victory over Hillary Clinton in the recent election.

“Trump is Hitler 2.0!” decried Jolanda Jones, the fiery and often outspoken Houston school board trustee, reality-TV personality, and attorney, claiming to express her opinion about the President-elect in a tweet.

A California high school physical education teacher has been placed on paid administrative leave after she allegedly told a group of students, who refused to stand for the national anthem, that they would be deported under President Donald Trump.

Shavar Jeffries writes in a statement Thursday in response to the fact that lists of potential education secretary candidates in the future Trump administration include some Democrats, such as Michelle Rhee, the former chancellor of Washington, D.C. schools, and Eva Moskowitz, CEO of Success Academy Charter Schools.

A former teacher-turned-transgender woman and LGBT activist who sued a California school district for discrimination has been arrested and accused of a triple homicide, police report.

A Houston area high school math teacher stands accused of having sex with one of his female students in his car at a park. During a police investigation, he admitted they engaged in sexual intercourse “probably twice.”

History teachers at an elite New York City high school allowed their students to skip class to protest in front of Trump Tower despite fellow educators’ objections.

An Iowa lawmaker plans to introduce a bill that would pull funding from public universities that are spending money to placate students upset about the result of last week’s presidential election.

While on the campaign trail, the president-elect described Common Core as a “disaster,” and said that the federal government should leave education to states and local school districts.

Wednesday on Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” Iowa State Rep. Bobby Kaufmann elaborated on a bill he has put forth that would eliminate funding for so-called “safe spaces” at public schools. Among the reasons for Kaufmann’s effort included rising and