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Boston, Massachusetts-area Wellesley High School faculty members put the kibosh on “USA Day” during its spirit week activities because the theme was viewed as overly political, Boston 25 News reported Saturday.

During his closing monologue on Friday’s edition of his HBO show “Real Time,” comedian Bill Maher stated that public schools are “diploma mills that allow students to graduate without demanding the kids know basic” knowledge and Catholic schools are outperforming

Students in a New Jersey school district have been barred from Halloween festivities during school hours in the name of  “diversity, equity, and inclusion.”

The female teaching assistant who was brutally beaten by a six-foot-six, 270-pound student at a Florida school is refusing to help lessen the teen’s sentence. 

“The future of our nation gets brighter when our kids have been effectively educated,” Sen. Tim Scott told Breitbart News.

The Chicago, Illinois, public school system has enrolled an estimated 2,000 migrant children for the school year which started August 21 as local taxpayers are spending millions more for bilingual instruction programs.

The boy’s aunt said her nephew lost consciousness on the field. He was transported to a nearby hospital and pronounced dead.

Close to 20,000 migrant children are expected to be absorbed by New York City’s public schools when the school year starts in just days. None of those migrant children will be required to show proof of vaccinations when they enroll, as is required for the children of New Yorkers.

A school district in the transgender “sanctuary state” of California settled for $100,000 with a mother who said her daughter was “socially transitioned” to a boy without her knowledge or consent.

Compared to the 2016–2017 school year, more than 11,900 fewer kindergarteners signed up to attend regular public schools in New York City.

A plurality of U.S. voters believe states should “ban all gender transition treatments for minors and stop discussion of gender ideology in all public schools,” a recent YouGov poll found. 

House Republicans passed a bill on Thursday that blocks local elected officials from housing border crossers and illegal aliens in public schools across the United States.

Democrat Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey drafted a proposal to overhaul physical and sexual education in public schools in the state — a framework which includes “gender identity” discussions with students as young as third grade, as well as talks of same-sex relationships and “gender-role stereotypes” with preschoolers.

Decades of legal and illegal immigration has “disproportionately” increased the share of low-income public school students in the United States, analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data reveals.

A massive decrease in the number of students has dropped public schools in Democrat-run Minneapolis into a financial crisis.

Parents are outraged after young students at a Connecticut elementary school were shown a video featuring children talking about gender identity for Pride Month, Eyewitness News 3 reported Monday.

American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten claimed Friday on MSNBC’s “Deadline” that people are “getting really angry” at the education policies of Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL).

Reynolds signed a bill restricting lessons on gender identity and sexual orientation for students in kindergarten through sixth grade.

Cooper made the “emergency” declaration on Monday in reaction to a spate of GOP-led legislation he deemed “extreme.”

A report by the Daily Signal that investigated left-wing claims of “book bans” by school districts found that 74% of books that are supposedly “banned” are actually in catalogues or are in use by students and teachers.

The clubs are currently only offered in primary schools, although the Satanic Temple is looking to expand into high schools.

New York City Schools Chancellor David Banks said the city is going to make major changes in how reading is taught in order to address the fact that half of city children in grades 3through 8 are not proficient in reading, according to a report.

“Firstly, the question we must address is, why are we affirming the mental confusion of this boy and putting the safety of women in jeopardy by allowing mentally confused men to use women’s spaces?” the female student asked.

A Colorado school bus driver is facing 30 child abuse charges for slamming the brakes on purpose to “teach the kids a lesson.”

A majority of Americans think it is “not appropriate” for public school teachers to talk about politics in the classroom.

A student brutally beat a teacher who took away his Nintendo Switch, continuing to attack her after she had been knocked unconscious, a report from Florida’s Flagler County Sheriff’s Office reveals.

A plurality of working class Americans say illegal immigration to the United States has made their local school systems worse off, a new survey reveals.

On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Big Money Show,” Illinois State Sen. Willie Preston (D) discussed a report that 55 Chicago public schools have no students who are proficient in math and reading and called for an investigation

The Baltimore public school system is under fire after the city said no students in 23 area schools are proficient in math, standards that are reportedly declining across Maryland.

Seattle Public Schools may have to close or consolidate locations, district officials say, as thousands of students have defected from the system in recent years. 

“Students will be able to carry Narcan, a nasal spray that can reverse an opioid overdose, in Los Angeles,” reports the far-left Los Angeles Times.

Former President Donald J. Trump on Thursday detailed his comprehensive education policy platform which aims to “restore power to American parents.” It includes plans to cut funding to schools and programs that push radical left-wing ideologies like “Critical Race Theory and gender ideology,” and keeping boys out girls’ sports.

California’s Twin Rivers Unified School District paid nearly $10,000 for “LGBTQ Presentations.”

A mother is calling for the resignation of school officials in Maine after finding out that a public school social worker began attempting to secretly transition her daughter without parental consent. 

The Detroit School Board last month voted to remove Dr. Ben Carson’s name from a local public high school.

Washington’s Evergreen Public Schools (EPS) banned and then quickly unbanned the playing of Christmas music on school buses.