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British schools are receiving a record £540 million a year in additional funding from the government to educate children who don’t speak English as their native language.

President Donald Trump’s administration is revising and restoring a loan forgiveness program that previously helped leftist activists avoid paying their student loans.

A new book warns that it will take decades to undo the damage that “social emotional learning,” a mind-altering system of control, has done to childhood education.

Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) announced that the Florida Civics and Debate Initiative (FCDI) will rename its statewide championship scholarship the Charlie Kirk prize in honor of the late Turning Point USA founder’s “zealous advocacy for civic dialogue and freedom of speech,” with Florida recognized as “#1 for high school civics and debate.”

The Loyola University New Orleans student government has reportedly denied a request to start a Turning Point USA chapter on campus.

Earlier this month, the Wikimedia Foundation that owns Wikipedia rejected candidates in community elections for its Board of Trustees, sparking a community revolt. One rejected candidate was Iraqi national Ravan Jaafar Al-Taie, who made numerous anti-Israeli posts. After community-elected board member Victoria Doronina publicly linked the posts to the rejection, Al-Taie filed a conduct complaint against Doronina, who later apologized and announced she was suspending most board activities until the end of the year.

Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) shook up higher education with her pointed hearing questioning of university administrators over their tolerance of antisemitism. Now she is telling the full story of the troubling decline of American universities.

A teacher and her boyfriend stand accused of sex trafficking a high school student in Holdrege, Nebraska.

A university financial aid advisor in Buffalo, New York is behind bars after being charged with strangling his girlfriend and then setting their home on fire while the new mother and their  infant son were inside. Kidane Haile, 30, who

A legal group has joined the fight to allow a high schooler in Colorado to paint her parking spot at school with Christian themes.

Author Jodi Picoult has the dubious honor of being banned in two mediums this fall — her books and now a musical based on her novel “Between the Lines.”

Yet another school teacher in the U.S. is accused of sex crimes with a student, this time a 26-year-old elementary teacher out of North Carolina who was arrested on a fugitive warrant in Dade County, Florida.

Like two ships passing in the night, proponents and opponents of H1-B visas can’t see the forest through the trees. The void of American workers for qualified H‑1B positions was really caused by the ever-increasing scale and relaxed requirements of F‑1 student visas, and universities depending on international enrollment to balance budgets. Admissions at leading public institutions like Georgia Tech have become as competitive as elite private universities, yet a material share of limited undergraduate seats increasingly goes to non‑U.S. students who can pay full tuition and additional fees.

A pink-haired individual at University of Arizona called Turning Point USA activists “Nazis” and told them “watch your neck” — in blatant reference to the assassination of the organization’s founder, free speech martyr Charlie Kirk — while passing by a TPUSA display table on campus.

The principal of Nathan Hale Elementary School in Chicago, Illinois, painted a teacher accused of mocking the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk as a victim in a letter sent to the community.

Electric truck maker Rivian is conducting another round of layoffs, cutting over 600 jobs, which amounts to four percent of its headcount, as the company tries to reduce costs amidst a pullback in the EV industry. This is the EV company’s second round of layoffs in a month.

The Trump administration reached an agreement with the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) on Friday to reinstate student loan forgiveness plans after partially blocking them during litigation.

Rutgers University Chancellor Francine Conway is claiming the school remains committed to “academic freedom” as trouble surrounding an outwardly pro-Antifa professor heats up.

Oklahoma State University refuses to comment on whether action will be taken in response to an administrator who reprimanded a student leader who gave a Charlie Kirk tribute. The administrator can be heard in an audio recording telling the student this year “is going to be difficult for you” after he gave a speech honoring the assassinated Turning Point USA founder.

A report citing internal research from Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has found that vulnerable teens who reported feeling bad about their bodies were exposed to significantly more “eating disorder adjacent” content on Instagram compared to their peers.

A woman caught on video mocking the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk at a “No Kings” protest over the weekend has been accused by social media users of being an elementary school teacher in Chicago, Illinois.

The vice president of research at Freedom House, which is mostly funded by the U.S. taxpayer via the State Department, attended a panel ahead of the 2024 presidential election in which he accused Donald Trump of promoting a “dangerous” ideology that “assumes a level of violence,” and compared the then-former president to Vladimir Putin.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law earlier this month that could make child abduction from school easier by expanding the definition of a “caregiver” allowed to withdraw a child from school with an affidavit.

The Trump administration is finding that getting some of the country’s most prestigious universities to be more politically diverse is a heavy lift – even when the schools are offered funding priority.

A Florida high school teacher who was forced to take down a poster of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk he placed in his classroom is pushing back.

Illinois State University teaching assistant Derek Lopez was arrested after he was caught on camera destroying a Turning Point USA informational table on campus, police said.

An OSU student leader who was reprimanded by a school coordinator for wearing a Turning Point USA hat on the day Charlie Kirk was assassinated says the incident has only made him more committed to free speech.

New York City Public Schools has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Education for stopping $47 million in federal grants after the district refused to change its transgender policies.

The national body of Students for Justice in Palestine backed Hamas’s grisly public executions of fellow Palestinians in Gaza on Sunday, posting “Death to the Occupation, Death to Collaborators” on Instagram.

A senior at the University of North Georgia is voicing her shock after buying a textbook that apparently labeled Christianity as a white supremacist group.

In an interview with Jan Jekielek of the Epoch Times that aired this week, Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger announced plans to circulate a letter of protest among prominent individuals and groups harmed by Wikipedia before sending to the Wikimedia Foundation that owns the site. He further suggested such a letter could be sent to U.S. government officials and other governments to press for reform at the online encyclopedia.

Three activists stripped down to their underwear this week during a school board meeting in Maine to protest the district’s policy allowing transgender-identifying males into female sports and spaces. 

College students are reportedly vowing to continue their anti-Israel protests, despite the Israel and Hamas ceasefire deal.

The Supreme Court on Monday declined to a take up a case from parents challenging a Colorado school district’s policy allowing staff to conceal a student’s “gender identity” from parents.

The state of Minnesota told the Trump administration on Friday that it would not provide a “substantive response” to a demand the state ban transgender-identifying males from female sports and spaces. 

The Cox case has been a flashpoint in the 2026 Gubernatorial race, with Republican nominee Lt. Gov. Winsome Sears slamming former Congresswoman and Democrat nominee Abigail Spanberger for supporting “gender identity” policies that enabled Cox to prey on women and children.