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U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland’s son-in-law is a co-founder of an educational data mining company that promotes the tenets of Critical Race Theory (CRT), a report at Becker News observed Wednesday.

A black-led anti-woke group denounced CRT after AG Merrick Garland said he will direct the FBI to mobilize against anti-CRT parents.

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.

Virginia Republican gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin on Monday launched “Parents Matter,” an initiative created as a response to debate comments from his opponent, former Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D), in which McAuliffe said parents should not have a say in school curriculums.

A new study published at the Boston-based Pioneer Institute points to the significant increase in families who are now regularly homeschooling as a sign the education option is now a “viable” choice.

Former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) caused a firestorm on Twitter following his comment during his debate with Republican gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin: “I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.”

A Texas mom read her school board a passage about anal sex from a book that has been available to middle school children in the district.

The founder of Moms for America is calling for a national parents strike to protest “the continued public school mask mandates” and other “encroachments on our freedoms.”

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.

Journalist and author Abigail Shrier shared on social media Thursday a 2018 memo sent to her by a Chicago Public Schools (CPS) teacher that explicitly states parents are not to be informed if their children have changed their gender identities.

Parents and students in New Jersey protested on Wednesday night against the state’s mandate for masks to be worn in schools.

Scotland’s left-separatist Scottish National Party (SNP) government has issued official guidance to schools saying they can assist supposedly transgender pupils to change their gender identity from the age of four, without telling their parents.

Florida officials issued a rule protecting parents’ right to make decisions for their minor children, including no mask wearing at school.

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.

More parents are homeschooling their children even as schools have been planning to reopen with in-person instruction.

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.”

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

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

The Census Bureau reported 11.1 percent of K-12 students are now homeschooled, a significant jump from 5.4 percent when schools closed.

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

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

Parents of students who attended Superior Elementary School in Denver sued the Boulder Valley School District about transgender lessons.

Parents of sick newborn babies are being barred from seeing their children in hospitals run by Britain’s socialised healthcare system, the National Health Service (NHS), due to the draconian coronavirus restrictions in place in the UK.

Voters in the state of Washington are deciding Tuesday on the nation’s first sex ed statewide ballot measure for public schools.

A survey showed 66-70 percent of likely voters in 5 battleground states support K-12 school choice, which Joe Biden has rejected.

A Tacoma teacher scolded a 10-year-old student for responding to a question about a person he admires with the answer “Donald J. Trump.”

A judge barred staff of a Madison, Wisconsin, school district from deceiving parents about their children’s gender identities adopted while at school.

The health officer of Montgomery County, Maryland, ordered nonpublic schools, including “private pay schools” and “schools affiliated with religious institutions,” to remain closed for in-school instruction through October 1.

Parents are pushing past politics and creating their own learning environments for their children — many of which involve home education.

Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) of Florida signed a bill into law Tuesday that will require a minor girl’s parents to consent to her abortion.

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

Harvard Law School has “postponed” a controversial summit on homeschooling “problems, politics, and prospects for reform,” due to “COVID-19.”

Harvard Magazine published an interview with a law professor who released a paper that calls for a “presumptive ban” on homeschooling.

Actress and radio host Sam Sorbo said the coronavirus crisis has inadvertently become the “impetus” for Americans to rethink education.