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River Oaks Baptist School’s previous director of diversity simultaneously worked at a crisis communications firm that specialized in dealing with “squeaky wheel” parents who are “emboldened to speak their minds.”

Joe Biden’s pro-migration border chief says the “core founding principle” of the United States is “equity,” and that he is building an immigration system built on “equity.”

The proposed rule would require new charter schools to demonstrate “sufficient demand” in a community to be eligible for federal grant money.

Biden Education Secretary Miguel Cardona offered his priorities for education which center on equity and inclusiveness in public schools.

Pop star Pharrell Williams reportedly used Martin Luther King Day to urge corporations to embrace “equity” by encouraging them to make investments based on skin color — a notion that is antithetical to Dr. King’s legacy.

Grassroots education groups in North Carolina have called on the state’s General Assembly to halt funding of a program that teaches tenets of Critical Race Theory (CRT) in preschool special education classrooms.

Parents in Cedar Grove, New Jersey, won a legal battle against their school district after challenging an equity survey that asked students as young as nine years old about their sexual identities and behaviors.

JPL, the federally funded NASA field center, said on its LinkedIn page that “diversity, equity and inclusion” are a workplace priority.

An advocacy group has called for greater equity in car crash dummy tests, claiming that the male body has been far too favored.

Flooded with cash to fund social–emotional learning (SEL), districts find themselves in a dilemma since SEL serves as the primary vehicle for CRT, an unpopular agenda.

Another open letter from California academics warns against the proposed K-12 math framework that prioritizes woke social justice ideology.

Hundreds of America’s top scientists and mathematicians have released an open letter in which they express “alarm” at the likely disastrous consequences of woke K-12 math curricula such as the “Equitable Math’ framework proposed in California.

A Canadian school board recently caused an uproar after it withdrew support for an event featuring Yazidi activist, former Islamic State (ISIS) sex slave, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Nadia Murad out of concern it could foster “Islamophobia” and “offend” Muslim students.

Rep. Greg Murphy (R-NC) said Joe Biden is a “puppet” being run by “Democratic intelligensia” while noting the president’s impaired cognition.

Rep. Burgess Owens (R-UT) cautioned educators against infusing the concept of “equity” into teaching while he spoke during an education-related roundtable hosted by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) on Wednesday.

Ian Prior, executive director of Fight for Schools, highlighted corporate profiteering off of Critical Race Theory and “transgender” indoctrination programs imposed on K-12 public schools.

More than 75 percent of America’s public schools are facing teacher, paraprofessional, and bus driver shortages, says a survey by the Education Week Research Center.

Period products will be available free inside public schools in California beginning next school year under legislation signed into law on Friday.

The disgraced far-left Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has released a new social justice education magazine called Learning for Justice.

People are losing their lives because of the Biden administration’s rationing of monoclonal antibody treatment, Rep. Greg Murphy (R-NC) said.

Three career academic math scholars gave a stern warning about the “deplorable” state of K-12 math education in the United States as schools prioritize social justice and diversity over merit, thereby allowing China to successfully advance as the world’s leader in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).

U.S. Parents Involved in Education (USPIE) has released its response to the “21-Day Challenge” programs marketed by “equity” consultants riding the Critical Race Theory wave.

The board of education in Stonington, Connecticut, voted Thursday to reverse its decision to rename Columbus Day as “Indigenous Peoples Day,” after substantial criticism related to the teaching of Critical Race Theory (CRT) in the district.

The U.S. Education Department will collect massive amounts of school civil rights data for two consecutive years, rather than in alternate years, due to expressed concerns the Chinese coronavirus pandemic has negatively affected the Biden administration’s plan to make equity a central focus of public education.

The first meeting of Connecticut’s Social Equity Council took place Thursday and the group will help decide who may take part in its cannabis industry.

Republican Study Committee Chairman Jim Banks (R-IN) slammed the so-called “infrastructure” bill in a memo released on Twitter calling the bill “essentially a Green New Deal Lite.”

Critical Race Theory opponents in Guilford, CT won out after Republicans voted to place 5 of their candidates on the board of education ballot.

A Minnesota fourth grade student said the class was required to complete an equity survey and told not to discuss it with parents.

Bentley University will offer an undergraduate degree in “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) this fall, becoming the first college in the United States to offer a major of this sort.

The National Education Association has moved to promote Critical Race Theory in K-12 schools and research the ideology’s critics in order to obstruct their efforts.

Our country cannot pursue racial unity and inclusion through promoting disunity and exclusion. Yet the same people who decry America’s alleged systemic racism are enacting policies and practices reminiscent of the worst days of racial segregation.

CT Sen. Rob Sampson (R) said he views the move by Democrats to push Critical Race Theory into the nation’s schools “Trojan reparations.”

“I am ashamed of Senator Whitehouse and his affiliation with this racist club. Him coming out and speaking about ending systemic racism while belonging to a ‘whites only’ private club is hypocrisy as it worst,” Executive Director of Black Lives Matter Rhode Island Brother Gary Dantzler

School districts that lost student enrollment during the pandemic are facing the reality those students will stay with their new education choices.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) declared racism a “public health emergency” on Thursday and promised to divert $10 million in coronavirus relief to create “equity zones,” the Daily Mail reported.

The Wellesley, Massachusetts school district has called for students and teachers to report their peers and colleagues for “incidents of bias.”