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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.

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.”

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.”

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.”

Once formal, legal equality is universal, “equity” not only goes beyond mere “equality,” but arguably undermines it. 

One of President Joe Biden’s senior advisers said recently the administration will begin acting immediately on reparations for black Americans.

The principal of a New York City public school sent out literature that asked parents to “reflect” on their “whiteness.”

Parents whose children attend an elementary school in Utah complained after a teacher read a book to third graders about a transgender boy.

A Silicon Valley elementary school was teaching third-graders Critical Race Theory, asking them to identify their “power and privilege.”

A new website is tracking woke curriculum and liberal indoctrination in schools and invites parents to submit examples from their children’s schools.

Failure rates in English and math for some low-income students in Montgomery County, Maryland have jumped as much as sixfold after the state’s largest public school system switched to remote learning during the pandemic.

A Washington school district has apologized for ejecting Asian students from their “students of color” category because they were performing satisfactorily.

Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau has announced the federal government will be investing $221 million of taxpayer cash in a group to give loans to black entrepreneurs to start businesses.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is getting rid of names of space objects the federal agency believes to be “insensitive” and even “harmful,” according to an announcement posted on its website last week and updated on Monday.

Washington’s planning guide for reopening schools says one approach to phase in face-to-face instruction prioritizes “students of color.”

LGBTQ activists and Planned Parenthood praised the New Jersey State Board of Education’s approval of their “gold standard” sex ed standards.

Sadly, Fox probably isn’t going to be the next James Bond. But he at least got an apology and settlement from the actors’ union Equity.

Washington parents are fighting a Democrat bill that would mandate LGBTQ-focused sex ed for children, including kindergartners.

The author of a bill that would require California high school students to be taught an ethnic studies curriculum has decided to delay the measure amid intense debate over which political identity groups should be included in the program.

The College Board announced it would be dropping its controversial “adversity score” on the SAT college entrance exam that informed schools of the socio-economic background of students taking the test.

A college-level writing teacher urges Common Core financier Bill Gates to “please, please” stay away from the world of higher education.

The Minneapolis Division of Race and Equity has postponed a program for employees that would have segregated black and white staffers in separate rooms.

A Maine Republican sponsored legislation that would forbid teachers from endorsing political candidates and from using their classrooms as bully pulpits for ideological advocacy.

Panelists at the South by Southwest (SXSW) EDU 2019 conference this week urged educators to make “social and emotional learning” (SEL) part of every core subject in K–12 classrooms.

British Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Jeremy Wright appeared to threaten heavier regulation of streaming services like Amazon Prime and Netflix to “encourage” them to “reflect and represent” the “full diversity” of the United Kingdom, like the BBC.