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“I have overridden my people,” Trump said. “We’re funding the Special Olympics.”

Peter Kirsanow explained how Obama-era education policies led to racial and ethnic school disciplinary quotas.

Panelists at the South by Southwest (SXSW) EDU 2019 conference this week urged educators to make “social and emotional learning” (SEL) part of every core subject in K–12 classrooms.

Primary school children from the age of five will be taught about gender reassignment, LGBT “families”, and other controversial topics, with parents denied an opt-out, according to reports.

“The bill states, ‘The Department of Education shall terminate on December 31, 2020,’” wrote the congressman. “Neither Congress nor the President, through his appointees, has the constitutional authority to dictate how and what our children must learn.”

The U.S. Department of Education is now investigating claims of anti-male discrimination at the University of Michigan.

Thousands of Jewish families will leave Britain if the government goes ahead with plans to force schools to promote LGBT lifestyles to children, an Orthodox campaigner has warned.

A federal school safety commission led by members of the Trump administration is recommending that the Departments of Justice and Education rescind the Obama-era school policy that urged more lenient forms of discipline in public schools for students of color and those of other minority groups.

In June, DeVos said it was her hope that adopting some of the education policies of these nations would “help catch us up” to students from other countries.

A recently published document from Department of Education officials includes a proposed policy for investigations into sexual assault accusations on college campuses that adds an emphasis on cross-examination.

In his 2019 proposed budget, President Donald Trump called for heavy cuts across federal agencies, including funding for student loans and medical research.

The Trump administration is investigating a 2011 case of alleged anti-semitism at Rutgers University.

A grassroots parent organizer in Utah says her state is a good example of how Betsy DeVos’s Department of Education is still forcing states to comply with federal mandates that go against the wishes of parents and elected officials.

The “toughest lie,” however, the former education chief said, is that “we say we value kids and we’ve raised a generation of young people … who have been raised on mass shootings and gun violence.”

Vandals reportedly untied Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’s $40 million yacht from its docking station early Sunday morning at a northern Ohio marina, setting the vessel adrift.

The Trump administration on Tuesday will reportedly nullify Obama-era guidelines promoting racial preferences in college admissions to boost campus diversity.

Parents are outraged after a New York City elementary school canceled its father-daughter dance Friday over concerns the event would not be “gender inclusive.”

A New York City high school teacher allegedly became a 17-year-old student’s “sugar daddy,” giving her cash and a taxpayer-funded job in exchange for sex.

Doug Jones, the Democratic candidate for December’s Senate special election in Alabama, found himself at the center of the hot-button issue of transgender people and the use of bathrooms and locker rooms in public schools after a video emerged Monday in which Jones discussed the topic.

A report from an immigration think tank reveals that “fourth-rate purveyors of higher education” are using immigration law to make millions of dollars while tens of thousands of aliens get student visas and work permits from “visa mills.”

WASHINGTON, D.C. — White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced on Wednesday that President Donald Trump’s second quarterly salary will be donated to the United States Department of Education.

“Roughly one out of every 20 water taps” in New York City elementary schools has elevated lead levels, according to a new report.

U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is withdrawing protections put in place by former President Barack Obama for students who have mismanaged or are defaulting on their college loans.

After President Donald Trump’s Education Secretary was barred by progressive activists from entering a Washington D.C. middle school, a reassessment of her security recommended additional protection at the cost of $7.8 million tax dollars thus far.

The president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) says President Donald Trump’s budget blueprint “takes a meat cleaver to public education.”

The president of Liberty University and an early supporter of Donald J. Trump for president told Breitbart News Thursday that he is more pleased with Trump now than when the son of Evangelist Rev. Jerry Falwell Sr. endorsed Trump 12 months ago.

Joe Lieberman, the 2000 Democratic nominee for vice president and former Connecticut senator, told Breitbart News he testified in favor of Betsy DeVos, President-elect Donald J. Trump’s nominee for secretary of education, because she cares about helping schoolchildren, not politics.

Capitol Hill is watching Sen. Cory A. Booker (D-NJ) as he twists and turns to handle the nomination of Elizabeth “Betsy” DeVos to lead President-elect Donald J. Trump’s Department of Education.

On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” school choice advocate, former Obama education transition team member, the Education Policy Committee for Obama’s 2008 campaign, and former DC City Councilman Kevin Chavous (D) praised Education Secretary nominee Betsy DeVos

The real problem the liberal-left has with Milo – and I entirely understand this fear – is that he is so eloquent, charming, well-informed and articulate.

On Monday’s Breitbart News Daily, University of Maryland business Professor Peter Morici told SiriusXM host Alex Marlow that Democrats’ constant allegations of racism and sexism – while they, and institutions they dominate, systematically discriminate against white males – were a major reason Donald Trump was able to defeat Hillary Clinton.

Dozens of Islamic schools are still operating despite Ofsted inspectors finding that the schools are “unsafe”, with children being exposed to extremist ideas as well as being unaware of British values, it has emerged. Many more schools have never been inspected at all.

Texas Attorney General (AG) Ken Paxton sent a letter to administrators in Texas schools informing them that the State was successful in getting President Obama’s public school transgender bathroom policy temporarily blocked. The Court ruling came down just as schools were opening for the fall.

Plaintiffs in one of the lawsuits over North Carolina’s HB 2 (the “bathroom bill”) scored a partial victory Friday when a federal district court made clear it was bound by higher-court precedent to rule for the plaintiffs. But that victory may be short-lived, as the U.S. Supreme Court will likely decide this matter in 2017.

FORT WORTH, Tex.—A federal judge on Monday ruled in favor of 13 states against President Barack Obama’s directive that public schools must allow students and adults to enter whatever bathrooms or showers they choose, a policy imposing transgenderism on the nation’s schools.

The full U.S. House of Representatives swats down a transgender measure, just hours after 43 Republicans voted for a Democratic amendment that would have forced transgender rules on all 50 states, and disqualify faith-based groups including the Salvation Army from doing business with the federal government.