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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.

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.

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.

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.”

An analysis by USA Today of vaccine distribution found Michigan’s focus on “equity” based on race and income “left people of color behind.”

Biden nominee Jill Hruby at a Senate hearing Thursday did not deny she incorporated critical race theory training at Sandia National Laboratories, where she served as director from 2015 to 2017, and asserted it was not divisive.

The Palm Beach, Florida, school board is rethinking its controversial statement to combat “white advantage” from a statement about “equity” in education.

Wednesday, FNC host Tucker Carlson reacted to Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot declared she would prioritize black and brown journalists over white journalists in the name of racial “equity.”

California’s proposed “equity”-focused K-12 mathematics framework aims to underscore the message that there are no students who are intellectually gifted in the subject area, and that providing tracks for higher-level math students is discriminatory.

An organization that seeks to inspire American Catholics to live out their faith in the public square has launched a website intended to “unmask” President Joe Biden, a man its leader says is “remaking America from the ground up.”

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has been President Joe Biden’s pointman on “equity,” but a new analysis found his department is one of the least diverse in the entire federal government.

Former Virginia House Speaker Kirk Cox, who is running for governor, warned against the public education system prioritizing equity in the classroom during an interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Saturday with host Matthew Boyle.

The Virginia Department of Education may cut advanced math classes for some students in a move critics claim is a push for “equity.”

Rachel Levine, assistant secretary of the Biden Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), criticized efforts in some states to ban minors from obtaining transgender drugs and surgeries, saying such bans constitute a “health equity issue.”

“Equity” does not mean treating all individuals the same. It means that the government will treat individuals differently, so that all groups might be brought to the same level, especially in terms of material wealth.

President Joe Biden’s $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan, the so-called “American Jobs Plan,” spends a great deal of space promising to address “racial equity.”