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Nearly 73 percent of Democrats believe teachers’ unions should have more authority over children’s educations than parents, according to a Trafalgar Group survey.

The American Federation of Teachers (AFT), led by union boss Randi Weingarten, announced Tuesday it would partner with NewsGuard, a news rating tool the Media Research Center (MRC) found to “heavily skew” in favor of left-wing outlets.

A CA mother claims two LGBTQ activist teachers “secretly manipulated” her 11-year-old daughter, “into believing she was a transgender boy.”

New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D) announced Wednesday she will be asking National Guard members and state employees to become certified to fill in as substitute teachers as teacher staffing shortages continue to skyrocket.

Nearly 4,200 schools will be closed or condemned to remote learning this week as officials fear the low-risk omicron variant of the coronavirus.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that the Chicago Teachers’ Union had their teachers take part in an “illegal walkout” by refusing to show up for in-person learning over fears of coronavirus.

Texas teacher Sarah Beam has been charged with locking her son in the trunk of her car to protect herself from catching the coronavirus.

Nikole Hannah-Jones, the non-historian behind the widely discredited New York Times “1619 Project,” admitted on Twitter Wednesday that virtual learning is harmful to children as teachers’ unions across the country call for school closures.

Teachers’ unions across the country are demanding that schools shut down in favor of virtual learning amid concerns over the low-risk omicron variant of the coronavirus.

Teachers have quickly become the one American profession in which they strike not to return to work, as is the case in Chicago, where their union has voted against in-person learning.

On Monday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street,” Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) said the coverage of the “saber-rattling by teachers’ union leadership” has ignored “the devastating effect that remote learning had on our children and on their families.”

A parent in Arlington, Virginia, slammed the teachers’ union in the state by editing an error-ridden letter that demanded officials delay reopening schools and posted the corrected version on social media.

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.

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.”

A member of the board of directors of the National Education Association (NEA) posted a message to Facebook that denounced unvaccinated individuals who claim religious exemptions and asserted they deserved to die, according to the Libs of Tik Tok social media account, which shared a screenshot of the post on Tuesday.

President Joe Biden’s Department of Education will no longer ask school districts for data pertaining to teacher-on-student sexual assault allegations, according to Fox News.

Author and journalist Abigail Shrier said authenticated documents and audio files sent to her reveal activist teachers are working to personally recruit middle-school-age children for “LGBTQ clubs” by tracking their Google searches, all while subverting parents.

As public school cancellations abound across the nation, districts are citing “fatigue” and the need for teacher “mental health day[s]” as the cause for staffing shortages despite the fact that many teachers have been home for over a year due to the coronavirus, according to Fox News.

Republican wins in the top government posts in Virginia this month came about largely because GOP candidates listened to parents who were fighting in their local school districts against leftist educrats who attempted to deny they were teaching Critical Race Theory (CRT).

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.

CNN’s Pamela Brown found some Virginia mothers who voted for Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election but ended up voting for Republican Glenn Youngkin in the governor’s race last week.

A Science, Technology, Engineering, Math (STEM) educator and administrator in the largest school district in Indiana addressed parents in a video in which he asserted when school officials say they are not teaching Critical Race Theory (CRT), “we’re lying.”

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” author and Staff Writer at The Atlantic Caitlin Flanagan said that Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe’s (D) statement that parents shouldn’t be telling schools what to teach was McAuliffe “siding with the teachers’

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher stated that education will be the big issue in the 2022 elections because “Parents vote, and they don’t like what’s going on in school.” And that Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry

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.

The Michigan House and Senate passed bills Tuesday that would provide tax credits to state residents who contribute to a scholarship program that families may use to choose alternative education settings for their children.

A higher education trade union in Britain has drawn criticism for supporting its members to self-identify as another race.

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.

United Federation of Teachers is urging its members to “document issues” related to Mayor Bill de Blasio’s coronavirus mandates.

A meeting in March with Dr. Anthony Fauci and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Rochelle Walensky raises questions of “outside influence” regarding President Joe Biden’s federal vaccine mandate, Breitbart News has learned exclusively.

The United States Conference of Mayors adopted a resolution pledging support to the teaching of Critical Race Theory in K-12 education.

The Biden administration tightened its masking guidance after one of the country’s most powerful teachers’ unions — the National Education Association (NEA) — threatened White House officials with publicly releasing harsh criticism of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), according to internal emails obtained by Fox News.

UTLA President and BLM member Cecily Myart-Cruz dismissed “learning loss” during the school closures, since children learned the words “insurrection” and “coup.”

American Federation of Teachers head Randi Weingarten said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that the teacher’s union needs to be working with employers on COVID-19 vaccine mandates for teachers.

A local NEA teachers’ union has filed a lawsuit against a school board and a parent to block the release of Critical Race Theory and gender theory records.

Connecticut’s public sector unions say any potential state mandates for coronavirus vaccinations must be negotiated at the bargaining table.