K-12 education

A majority of Indiana voters disapprove of Gov. Eric Holcomb’s (R) decision to veto a transgender sports ban bill.

An eighth grade teacher at a public school in Arizona recently assigned her students math problems about child sexual assault.

Christian educators are embracing changes in teaching and learning amid a continued rise in enrollments in faith-based K-12 schools.

Parents filed a lawsuit against their daughter’s school after she attempted suicide following secret gender identity meetings with staff.

Parents of fourth and fifth graders in a Beaverton, Oregon, elementary school are outraged about the creation of a Queer Student Alliance (QSA) club they say their children were asked to join without their consent.

Students in California public schools will no longer be required to learn Aztec prayers as a result of a settlement following a lawsuit.

The Moline-Coal Valley School District defended its decision to allow an “After School Satan Club” for children in grades one through five.

The “1619 Project’s” Nikole Hannah-Jones said of her failure to provide the correct year for the start of the Civil War, “It is what it is.”

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) said Wednesday evening the Chicago Teachers’ Union (CTU) is holding students “hostage” by refusing to allow teachers to show up for work on Thursday morning for in-person learning with claims of fears of the spread of coronavirus infection.

Loyola University academics argue vehemently in favor of the teachiing of Critical Race Theory (CRT) in K-12 schools.

An Indianapolis school district administrator announced he was fired Monday in the wake of a video he tweeted in early November in which he revealed his district’s woke social justice educational agenda.

Oregon’s new social science standards are now integrated with “ethnic studies” and require kindergartners to become indoctrinated in identity politics, including developing “an understanding” of their own “gender.”

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 USA Today/Suffolk University survey released this month found nearly half of registered voters oppose the teaching of Critical Race Theory (CRT) in schools.

A new Vermont education law requires middle and high schools to offer free condoms, the first such law in the nation.

A parent has been banned from school grounds after she reportedly voiced concerns to the principal about alleged sexual assaults at the school.

Republican wins in the top government posts in Virginia this month came about largely because GOP candidates listened to parents who were fighting in their local school districts against leftist educrats who attempted to deny they were teaching Critical Race Theory (CRT).

A California high school will investigate a politically-biased question on a history quiz after parents shared the question on social media.

The principal of a Boston public school was beaten until unconscious during an increase in violence in the school district.

A Science, Technology, Engineering, Math (STEM) educator and administrator in the largest school district in Indiana addressed parents in a video in which he asserted when school officials say they are not teaching Critical Race Theory (CRT), “we’re lying.”

U.S. Civil Rights Commissioner Peter Kirsanow informed the principal of a Minnesota high school committed to a “vision of equity” that the school’s stated intention to dismantle “whiteness and other systems of privilege” amounts to a “discriminatory” and “race-obsessed viewpoint.”

A mother told the Loudoun County school board her six-year-old daughter asked her if she was born evil because she is white.

The Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office is investigating multiple reports of a male student touching other students inappropriately in a district middle school.

The former president of the nation’s largest association devoted to social studies education set the stage two years ago for America’s K-12 social studies teachers to educate students in the tenets of Critical Race Theory (CRT) and reward those who engaged in leftist activism for Black Lives Matter, LGBTQ rights, and illegal immigration advocacy.

A new analysis of student test-score data found school districts with administrators hired to head “diversity and inclusion” programs are not only not shrinking achievement gaps, but may actually be serving to expand them.

Ian Prior said Loudoun County School Board ignored allegations that one its students committed sexual assault, including “forced fellatio.”

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.

A Texas school district official advised teachers with books about the Holocaust in their classrooms to also have one with an “opposing” view.

The Florida School Boards Association has rejected the national association’s request for federal law enforcement help at local board meetings.

An increasing number of schools across the country are banning LGBTQ “pride” and Black Lives Matter flags, calling them too political and divisive.

Two state school board associations have condemned the National School Board Association’s (NSBA) request to President Joe Biden for federal law enforcement help to deal with frustrated parents who oppose Critical Race Theory and mask mandates in K-12 schools.

Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) demanded the National School Board Association explain its request for federal law enforcement to assist with parents who are against teaching critical race theory.

Parents are outraged over the Biden DOJ’s plan to direct the FBI to mobilize against them as they advocate for their children.

It is not “domestic extremism” for a parent to advocate for their child’s best interests at local school board meetings, admitted Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco to Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday.

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

Biden Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said Thursday he not only supports mandatory Chinese coronavirus vaccines for eligible schoolchildren, he expects states to “make sure it happens.”

The United States Conference of Mayors adopted a resolution pledging support to the teaching of Critical Race Theory in K-12 education.

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).

A California school district announced it plans to fire the teacher who boasted of using Antifa propaganda to influence his class in a Project Veritas video.