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The chiefs of America’s three largest public school districts have resigned within two months of each other following a tumultuous year.

An AP report states some black parents prefer remote learning as a means to better “shield their children from racism in classrooms.”

Former Virginia House Speaker Kirk Cox (R), who is running for governor, expressed the urgency of restoring statewide in-person learning for school-aged children during an interview Monday with host Alex Marlow on Breitbart News Daily.

The president and first lady visited Yorktown Elementary School to highlight students returning safely to in-person learning.

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

VERDICT: MOSTLY FALSE. A study published in the 2018 Early Childhood Research Quarterly by Mark Lipsey, Dale Farran, and Kelley Durkin found that the evidence does not support Biden’s claim to “add two years of universal high-quality pre-school.”

Joe Biden claimed offering four more years of public education to students will allow them to “compete in the 21st century.”

An Arizona school board will hold a retirement event for its superintendent but has cancelled and restricted student end-of-year activities citing COVID.

The Arkansas legislature has overwhelmingly passed a bill that would ban Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers from providing resources in the state’s public schools.

80 New Hampshire businesses say a bill preventing teaching that America is inherently racist would be bad for business in the state.

A 2nd-grade “social and emotional learning” lesson at a public school featured a cartoon video that showed a child next to an erect penis.

President Joe Biden’s infrastructure plan includes an effort to “improve our school kitchens” to “prepare nutritious meals.”

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee (R) has introduced legislation that would prohibit his state’s public colleges and universities from having ties with the Confucius Institute.

A bill currently in the Tennessee legislature seeks to prohibit the state from approving textbooks and other instructional materials containing LGBTQ+ content.

A transgender student will receive a $300,000 settlement from a school district for being barred from using the boys’ locker room in 2016.

Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) on Wednesday contrasted President Joe Biden’s “open border” policy with his ambivalence towards government-decreed school closures in the context of the White House’s ostensible concern about the spread of the coronavirus.

Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-NJ) said Tuesday there are “no further arguments” to keep children from returning to school for in-person learning, 

Librarian of Congress, Dr. Carla Hayden, laughed off a Michigan legislative staffer’s F-bomb during a virtual reading event with elementary students on Friday.

Education Secretary Cardona said it will “take years” to address the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the nation’s education system.

President Joe Biden lamented the fact that many of the nation’s children have been out of school for an entire year during the coronavirus pandemic, even though he has supported the teacher’s unions that have refused to return to in-person learning.

Stanford Law School has launched a “Youth Justice Lab,” which aims to address racism in public schools. The university claims that special education, advanced placement programs, and other “meritocratic” grading policies are “insidious” forms of “state-sponsored racial segregation.”

The Arizona Department of Education wants its teachers to  promote racial “equity and diversity” through an “anti-racist” program that promotes the idea that white babies and toddlers are racist.

An investigation into Baltimore City schools revealed, in one high school in which hundreds of students are failing, a student who passed only three classes in four years actually ranks near the top half of his class, with only a 0.13 grade point average.

Michigan parents will be protesting at the state capitol Saturday to pressure Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to reopen schools.

Former President Donald Trump blasted President Joe Biden’s support for keeping classrooms closed while touting education for migrants.

Parents in the La Mesa-Spring Valley, California, school district are calling for the resignation of a school board trustee who referred to plans to return to in-person learning as “white supremacist ideology.”

A high school football coach was allegedly fired by a Massachusetts school district after objecting to his child’s racially-charged curriculum.

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

Ann Arbor Public Schools declared a “Virtual Snow Day” before a Monday night storm despite already operating virtually.

Rep. Jason Smith told Breitbart News Friday that House Democrats, in private discussions with him, have said school shutdowns should end.