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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.

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.

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.

Gov. Bill Lee (R) signed an executive order Monday giving parents the ability to opt their children out of any mask mandates imposed by Tennessee schools.

The leader of a new black movement says the left is “weaponizing” black children by keeping them in failing schools and grooming them in how to “undermine America.”

President Joe Biden pressed the nation’s schools to hold at least one “pop-up vaccination clinic” for children aged 12 and older.

In three lawsuits Minnesota citizens claim Critical Race Theory is overwhelming their workplaces and schools, promoting racism and divisiveness.

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

A Trafalgar Group survey published Wednesday found 51.8 percent of American voters said parents who oppose the teaching of Critical Race Theory (CRT) in schools should take action.

States passed a bounty of school choice laws this year while teachers’ unions balked at reopening schools and vowed to teach Critical Race Theory.

More than 5,000 teachers have signed a Zinn Education Project pledge, vowing to defy laws banning the teaching of Critical Race Theory.

“To be racist, is to constantly, consistently, deny, deny, deny, like Donald Trump,” Critical Race Theory activist Ibram X. Kendi said.

The Zinn Education Project is urging teachers to pledge to instruct students in Critical Race Theory concepts – even if it is banned.

Parents objecting to their children being taught that America is a racist country are “beginning to sound a lot like the KKK,” the editors at the Hartford Courant wrote Thursday.

The black Illinois father whose rant against Critical Race Theory at a local school board meeting last week went viral is not backing down. He, instead, is laughing at attempts by the left to discredit him.

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

A black father ripped Critical Race Theory at a school board meeting in Illinois, asserting the Marxist ideology seeks to teach children “to hate each other.”

An NBC News hit piece on grassroots parents’ groups battling Critical Race Theory (CRT) in K-12 schools has drawn a flood of criticism.

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

The Brunswick County, NC Board of Education voted to ban employees from using their positions to teach the tenets of Critical Race Theory.

The Biden Department of Education outlined Wednesday how it will spend the “American Rescue Plan’s historic funding for schools” in order to advance “equity” as a central focus of education in the nation’s public schools.

The Democrat majority in the Maine House rejected a bill Monday that would ban teaching the tenets of Critical Race Theory.

A woke Maine superintendent said an anti-CRT parent may attend his daughters’ graduation if he meets certain “conditions” and “expectations.”

The superintendent of the school district for Cumberland and North Yarmouth, Maine, denied to Breitbart News his district uses Critical Race Theory (CRT), and referred to a parent who has vehemently opposed woke education as “a vile person.”

The superintendent of Bellingham School District in Washington defended reading a transgender book to first graders without parents’ consent.

A Minnesota school choice movement founded in the black community aims to challenge the “woke” culture narrative that America is a systemically racist nation “structured to undermine the lives of black Americans.”

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt (R) signed a bill Friday that will ban the teaching of Critical Race Theory in the state’s public schools.

Parents were reportedly dismissed by school officials after protesting a teacher’s decision to read a transgender book to first-graders.

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 elite Catholic girls’ school is embracing woke culture and gender diversity, including a week of events that celebrate gender ideology.

Arizona parents rallied to urge their school board to lift its mask mandate, only to find its members had suddenly canceled the meeting.

The Idaho House and Senate have approved legislation that would prohibit schools from compelling K-12 and higher education students to affirm or adopt the tenets of Critical Race Theory (CRT).