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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.

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.

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.

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.

Whistleblower documents revealed a Philadelphia elementary school, ranked as one of the worst-performing schools in Pennsylvania, forced fifth graders to act out a “Black Power” rally in honor of radical Marxist Angela Davis and to celebrate “black communism.”

A bill making its way through the Iowa legislature would require students to use school bathrooms according to their sex.

Moms for Liberty hopes to organize parents to play a more influential role in school governance, its founder told The Kyle Olson Show this week.

Former teacher Rebecca Friedrichs had a blunt message this week for educators complaining about returning to their classrooms: Go back or get fired.

Parents in Mason, Michigan, are organizing to demand students return to classrooms full time as coronavirus-related school closures drag on.

“Black Lives Matter at School Week” uses lesson plan “resources” that teach young children to be transgender and queer “affirming.”

Organized students and parents scored a victory over Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) when she backed down Wednesday and authorized winter school sports to begin.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of Fox News Radio’s “Guy Benson Show,” Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) stated that schools that have a business model where they don’t get paid if they aren’t open have opened, but in public schools, where “you’re going

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot blamed former President Trump for the standoff between the city and the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU).

A group of Michigan student athletes and parents made good on a promise on Tuesday to sue Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s (D) administration if she did not immediately begin winter school sports.

Thousands of student athletes, coaches, parents, and organizers rallied at the Michigan capitol on Saturday for the ability to play school sports.

A growing movement demanding high schoolers be allowed to play sports will be protesting Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s lockdown orders on Saturday.

In a piece published at education site The 74 on the day of Biden’s inauguration, Mike Antonucci observed while teachers’ unions were continuing the narrative that “no one wants to reopen schools more than educators,” they “keep moving the goalposts.”

The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) is opposed to schools returning to in-person learning and blamed the possibility of a strike on the mayor Wednesday.

Some school districts in Texas will not livestream Joe Biden’s inauguration in the name of “protecting students from potential unforeseen disruption.”

A high school principal has been relieved of his duties — at least temporarily — after he criticized social media censorship to students this week.

A local teachers union president in Washington claimed this week that reopening schools is an act of “white supremacy.”

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam (D) released new coronavirus guidance Thursday, as President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration approaches, insisting “schools need to be open.”

Public schools across the country are quickly responding to Wednesday’s events at the U.S. Capitol by offering “emotional support” for students and teaching vocabulary words such as “insurrection” and “sedition.”

The Santa Barbara, California, school district is considering a proposal to ban D and F grades “to address student inequities.”

Democrat wins in the Georgia Senate runoffs would give a Joe Biden administration a clear path to spend billions more in taxpayer dollars on government schools that have already failed low-income students, despite billions already spent on progressive initiatives like the Common Core Standards.

Attitudes about school choice are at “all-time highs” EdChoice found in its recent survey of parents, group vice president Paul DiPerna told The Kyle Olson Show this week.

A leader of the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) wants kids to remain out of the classroom because schools are “unsafe,” but she made the claims in the midst of a sunny vacation in Puerto Rico.

An attorney representing several students sexually abused by teachers told The Kyle Olson Show this week that the Redlands Unified School District in Redlands, California has the dubious distinction of allegedly having the most perpetrators per student in the state.