Trump Signs Sweeping School Choice Executive Order Aimed at Empowering Parents
The order states that it is the policy of the Trump administration to “support parents in choosing and directing the upbringing and education of their children.”

The order states that it is the policy of the Trump administration to “support parents in choosing and directing the upbringing and education of their children.”
Liberal white education gurus are dumbing down academic standards in the name of “equity education,” Catholic League president Bill Donohue writes Thursday, a practice that carries “racist undertones.”
“The future of our nation gets brighter when our kids have been effectively educated,” Sen. Tim Scott told Breitbart News.
Stephen Moore criticized Democrats for opposing school choice and said they “care more about teachers’ unions then than they do about kids.”
Parents and students from a Florida charter school have been invited to Florence, Italy to see the Statue of David, after their principle was fired amid complaints of pornographic lessons.
A Tallahassee charter school board chair said Thursday that he presented an employment ultimatum to a principal for multiple reasons rather than just complaints about a Statue of David lesson, as she has reportedly suggested.
Former Gov. Sarah Palin said political corruption of public schools can be a “catalyst” for “Mama and Papa Grizzlies” to protect their children.
Larry Arnn explained how the educational bureaucracy enforces ideological conformity in pedagogy via its control of teacher certification.
KIPP Public Schools, a charter school operator in California, announced on Thursday that one of its teachers identifies as a “proud queer Asian-Latinx educator,” and “often teaches his 5-year-olds about the complexities of intersectionality.”
Hillsdale College, a conservative institute of higher education focused on teaching the Western tradition, is taking a stand against leftist indoctrination in K-12 education by opening a network of charter schools set on portraying America as an “exceptionally good country.”
The proposed rule would require new charter schools to demonstrate “sufficient demand” in a community to be eligible for federal grant money.
An ex-education adviser to former President Barack Obama has plead guilty to wire fraud, the New York Post reported Saturday.
“I want to be the first good governor we’ve had in a very long period of time,” said Larry Elder of his campaign for governor in California.
The murder rate in Virginia rose 43 percent during Terry McAuliffe’s governorship, Republican gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin said.
President Donald Trump pointed out to supporters Friday night at a campaign rally in Macon, Georgia, what he and his administration have done for the black community in America.
A survey showed 66-70 percent of likely voters in 5 battleground states support K-12 school choice, which Joe Biden has rejected.
Rapper-fashion mogul Diddy and motivational education speaker Steve Perry are set to open their third charter school, Capital Prep Bronx, in the Bronx, New York, expanding the pair’s network of college prep schools.
Former California teacher Rebecca Friedrichs asserted on the first evening of the Republican National Convention (RNC) that her court battle against the teachers’ unions became an even greater struggle when the Obama-Biden administration and then-California Attorney General Kamala Harris intervened to defeat her cause.
Democrats have circulated a draft of their proposed 2020 platform. In its present form, it would be the most left-wing platform in the history of U.S. presidential politics.
Larry Elder joined Breitbart News to discuss his recent nomination to the Radio Hall of Fame, reflecting on his nearly three decades in radio.
Schools across the state of Florida have been ordered to reopen in August per an emergency order signed by Florida Department of Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran on Monday.
Rioters in Minneapolis during protests against police over the death of George Floyd on Wednesday evening smashed the windows of storefronts housing local charter schools, along with other tenants in a local commercial district.
Teachers’ unions and their public school allies are pushing states to clamp down on charter schools during the coronavirus school closures.
During his State of the Union address before a joint session of Congress on Tuesday, President Donald Trump announced that Janiyah Davis, a fourth-grade student in Philadelphia, PA, would be awarded a scholarship to attend a school of her choice.
A poll by the American Federation for Children indicates the majority of Democratic primary voters favor continuing to fund charter schools.
The Magic City Acceptance Academy, an LGBTQ-themed charter school, is seeking approval to open in Birmingham, Alabama.
Former Vice President Joe Biden appeared to reverse course on charter schools during Saturday’s MSNBC Public Education Forum 2020 in Pittsburgh.
Hundreds of charter school advocates arrived outside the Democrat debate at Loyola Marymount University on Thursday evening, swamping the small demonstrations of support for the various candidates.
A #RedforEd protest against Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos fizzled in Arizona on Wednesday.
An Angel Mom is urging black Americans to stand with Trump, whose school choice policies offer low-income black families an opportunity to change the trajectory from poverty to success.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) was caught making a false statement on video last week at an event in Atlanta when she was questioned by Sarah Carpenter, a black woman who supports charter schools.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) proposed to end school vouchers in her public education plan released Monday, despite praising them in the past for helping “take the pressure off parents” and encouraging competition.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) on Monday unveiled her public education proposal, which includes halting the “privatization” of public schools, stopping vouchers, enhancing protections for illegal immigrant students, and quadrupling Title I funding.
A new poll finds 81 percent of Democrat primary voters, including 89 percent of black Democrat primary voters, support charter schools.
The education views of Democrat 2020 contender Andrew Yang may differ from many of his colleagues in that he said data show “65-70 percent of our students’ outcomes are determined outside of the school.”
Local school districts and individual schools in Colorado are refusing to implement the state’s sex ed law that mandates teaching about LGBTQ relationships and abortion, claiming the law is “unconstitutional.”
Newly hired teachers in NYC schools received a book with an essay entitled “Dear White Teacher,” which encourages discipline regardless of race.
California is poised to ban both traditional public and charter schools from suspending K-8 students for willfully defiant behavior.
The Marin County area is famously rich, white, and liberal. In 2019, they might finally end the economic segregation in their schools.
A rally of #RedforEd teachers at West Virginia’s state capitol on Monday failed to intimidate the GOP controlled West Virginia State Legislature from moving forward with legislation that would authorize charter schools in the state.