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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.”

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.

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.

Education observers say a rise in interest in homeschooling due to the coronavirus could spark a new way to think about educating children.

A Georgia Republican lawmaker has introduced a bill that would make child transgender surgeries and drugs illegal.

Parents in Madison, Wisconsin are suing the school district over a policy that lets children change gender identity without parental consent.

A national parents’ organization is releasing a film that seeks to expose the “lies and government schemes” of federally-run education.

Muslim and Coptic Christian parents in New Jersey protested the state-mandated LGBT rights curriculum signed into law by Democrat Gov. Murphy.

A Missouri lawmaker has introduced a bill giving parents say in whether Drag Queen Story Hours would be permitted in publicly-funded libraries.

New Jersey parents expressed outrage Wednesday over a new state law requiring public school students to learn about LGBT history and rights.

The attorney general of Indiana has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold a state law that requires parents to be notified when a minor obtains an abortion.

Parents walked out of a school meeting focused on gender identity after being barred from discussing a transgender bathroom policy.

A Colorado English teacher created controversy by assigning the sexually explicit poem Howl to his high school students without obtaining the approval of parents.

A teacher reportedly defended the presence of a drag queen during a school class, asserting the parents who objected are “bigoted” and “should not have the final say” in raising their own children.

Three GOP lawmakers in three states are crafting legislation to protect children from controversial “gender transition” treatment.

Local school districts and individual schools in Colorado are refusing to implement the state’s sex ed law that mandates teaching about LGBTQ relationships and abortion, claiming the law is “unconstitutional.”

Parents in Oak Park, California, are condemning a new elementary school curriculum that pushes gender ideology in the classrooms of young children.

Parents are suing a Connecticut public school district and the state, arguing officials from both undermined their parental rights, interfered in their relationship with their daughter, who claims to be lesbian, and harassed them because of their Catholic faith.

As the new school year approaches, churches, parents, and family advocacy groups are sounding the alarm about the comprehensive sex education curriculum being put into place in schools throughout California based on a 2015 law passed in the state.

A London father who refused to register the birth of his son because he did not want him becoming an “asset” of a state which he perceived to be “authoritarian and capricious” has lost his High Court battle.

A British judge has ordered a disabled woman to have an abortion at 22 weeks despite the objections of the woman and her mother.

Vermont Gov. Phil Scott, a Republican, has signed a bill into law that declares abortion a “fundamental right” and denies parents a right to be notified if their daughter is seeking an abortion.

A British Columbia (BC) Supreme Court judge has found the father of a 14-year-old girl claiming to be transgender guilty of “family violence” because he continued to refer to his daughter as “she.”

A federal judge is allowing a lawsuit against transgender facilities in a school district to proceed, but warned the student-plaintiffs that, if the government allows boys who claim to be female to use the girls’ bathrooms and locker rooms, then the girls have no right to “visual bodily privacy.”

House Democrats introduced the Equality Act last week, a measure that would ensure gender ideology — i.e., transgender bathrooms, forced preferred pronoun use, and biological men playing women’s sports, etc. — is cemented into federal law.

Transgender activists are lobbying the courts to achieve their goal of removing children from the homes of parents who refuse to affirm their child’s new, self-proclaimed gender identity.

The administration of Delaware Gov. John Carney, a Democrat, has reversed a prior policy proposal that would have allowed children to identify as transgender at school without notifying their parents or obtaining their permission.

A candlelit vigil was held outside the Vatican as the parents of Alfie Evans said that they would cease fighting to bring their son home and would work with the hospital to give him “dignity and comfort”.

The fight for Alfie Evans’ life appears to be at a close as his father, on behalf of the family, signalled that he would be working with the hospital “on a plan that provides our boy with the dignity and comfort he needs” and asked his supporters to return to their everyday lives. 

Supporters of Alfie Evans allegedly planned to storm Alder Hey hospital over doctors’ decision to remove life support from the ill toddler.

A UK High Court judge has rejected appeals by the parents of the sick toddler Alfie Evans to fly their son to Rome for treatment, after appeals by Pope Francis and the granting of Italian citizenship to the child.

The father of ill baby Alfie Evans has told media that his son is breathing on his own nine hours after doctors removed him from life support.