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Center for Vaccine Development director Dr. Peter Hotez said Friday on CNN’s “The Lead” that public schools should delay opening for a couple weeks because of the highly infectious Omicron variant of COVID.

An Indianapolis school district administrator announced he was fired Monday in the wake of a video he tweeted in early November in which he revealed his district’s woke social justice educational agenda.

A survey released Friday found that when K-12 school district leaders and teachers were asked about parents’ ability to teach their children about controversial issues, the majority rated parents as either “poor” or “fair.”

The parents of a 12-year-old girl in the Spreckels Union School District (SUSD) in Salinas, California, claimed school staff indoctrinated their daughter into identifying as “trans fluid” after encouraging her to join a lunchtime “Equality Club.”

Enrollment and staffing have continued their precipitous decline across Virginia’s public school systems, as unfilled education positions have increased 62 percent and parents seek alternatives for their children.

Hundreds of America’s top scientists and mathematicians have released an open letter in which they express “alarm” at the likely disastrous consequences of woke K-12 math curricula such as the “Equitable Math’ framework proposed in California.

A new Vermont education law requires middle and high schools to offer free condoms, the first such law in the nation.

A parent has been banned from school grounds after she reportedly voiced concerns to the principal about alleged sexual assaults at the school.

A 7-year-old girl in Palm Beach County, Florida, has been suspended for a total of 36 days, received multiple in-school disciplinary actions, and may now have to repeat the second grade for refusing to comply with the school district’s mask mandate.

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) vetoed Republican-sponsored school choice bills passed by both the state House and Senate that would have helped low-income families obtain scholarships they could use to leave failing neighborhood public schools.

A California high school will investigate a politically-biased question on a history quiz after parents shared the question on social media.

The principal of a Boston public school was beaten until unconscious during an increase in violence in the school district.

Blaire White, a popular conservative transgender YouTuber, called out the media blackout of the rape of a 9th grade girl by a male student wearing a skirt while sharing the high scool girls’ restroom.

El Salvador’s government will use surplus profits earned from cryptocurrency investments to build 20 new schools across the Central American country, El Salvador’s Diaro La Huella newspaper reported Monday. “I want to announce that with a few million that we

U.S. Civil Rights Commissioner Peter Kirsanow informed the principal of a Minnesota high school committed to a “vision of equity” that the school’s stated intention to dismantle “whiteness and other systems of privilege” amounts to a “discriminatory” and “race-obsessed viewpoint.”

The Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office is investigating multiple reports of a male student touching other students inappropriately in a district middle school.

The former president of the nation’s largest association devoted to social studies education set the stage two years ago for America’s K-12 social studies teachers to educate students in the tenets of Critical Race Theory (CRT) and reward those who engaged in leftist activism for Black Lives Matter, LGBTQ rights, and illegal immigration advocacy.

One sector of the economy that is being hit by the continuous flow of migrants into the United States, including thousands of illegal aliens, is public schools, which accept all students regardless of immigration status.

Lunches for school children on Wednesday are reportedly being impacted throughout the nation by President Biden’s supply chain crisis, forcing children conserve forks and spoons at schools. 

More than 75 percent of America’s public schools are facing teacher, paraprofessional, and bus driver shortages, says a survey by the Education Week Research Center.

A Texas school district official advised teachers with books about the Holocaust in their classrooms to also have one with an “opposing” view.

Supply chain crisis has trickled down to U.S. school cafeterias, as food workers struggle to get meals for students on the table.

A Seattle elementary school has canceled its Halloween “Pumpkin Parade” because the school district says black males do not celebrate the holiday and feel marginalized by it.

An analysis shows that San Francisco public schools have lost some 3,500 students and face a loss of $35M in state funding as a result.

Former Ohio Treasurer and candidate for U.S. Senate Josh Mandel was escorted out of a Lakota School Board meeting in Cincinnati on Monday after speaking out against mask mandates, Critical Race Theory, and gender ideology being pushed in schools.

North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson (R) has made clear that he will not succumb to the leftist calls for his resignation for labeling the promotion of “trangenderism” and “homosexuality” in schools as “filth.”

The president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) took to Twitter Tuesday to defend the Biden Department of Justice in its move to mobilize the FBI against parents voicing concerns to school officials and boards about Critical Race Theory and mask mandate.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s (R) press secretary Christina Pushaw sharply responded Thursday after the state’s Agricultural Commissioner Nikki Fried (D), a frequent DeSantis critic whom he deemed a “lockdown lobbyist,” appeared on CNN, spreading disinformation on masking in school.

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 high school LGBTQ activist who was elected homecoming queen was reportedly accused by the school district of creating a disturbance.

Students in Florida no longer have to quarantine due to exposure to the Chinese coronavirus if they are asymptomatic — a “very simple” rule, Gov. Ron DeSantis’s (R) press secretary explained on Thursday.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) on Monday announced students will be subjected to weekly coronavirus testing, which he said will begin next week, on September 27.

A Virginia high school English teacher created a firestorm after posting a now-deleted Tik-Tok video in which he attacked teaching children rudimentary behavior skills as “white supremacy.”

A Ohio mayor is calling for the resignation of the full school board over a student “child pornography” assignment.

A Sammamish, Washington, high school banned students from wearing red, white, and blue for its “Patriot’s Day” football game Friday over concerns such a memorial could be “racially insensitive” and offensive to some individuals.

According to a recent analysis of school files from dark web pages performed by NBC News, the personal data of millions of schoolchildren is being spread across the internet. The data found on students includes social security numbers and medical conditions.