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Education Secretary Cardona said it will “take years” to address the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the nation’s education system.

Social-Emotional Learning has now become the primary vehicle for Critical Race Theory and anti-white racism in schools.

Stanley Kurtz warns the  proposed “action civics” curriculum will teach students how to community organize for leftist causes with a woke education program based on Critical Race Theory.

The same Washington establishment that championed the Common Core standards and encouraged more federal involvement in education has endorsed a civics initiative that seeks to indoctrinate K-12 students into woke “action” political organizing, under the guise of restoring “unity.” In

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.”

If enacted, the Equality Act would have a major impact on children and their parents, upending the culture as American families now know it.

If enacted, the Equality Act could have a major impact on children and their parents, upending the culture as American families now know it.

Dr. Rochelle Walensky said the updated CDC school guidelines were created “free from political meddling,” after hearing from “stakeholders.”

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot said the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) has “aspirations” that are “akin to a political party.”

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.”

Colorado Democrats proposed legislation that would seek to teach school children how to differentiate between fake and credible media sources.

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

The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) is poised to strike following an order by Mayor Lori Lightfoot that teachers return to in-person learning in their classrooms.

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 Minnesota Department of Education has released its first draft of K-12 social studies standards for the next ten years, a proposal that omits most of the significant events in American history and focuses, instead, on “systemic racism” and the oppression of “marginalized” people throughout U.S. and Minnesota history.

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.

A new website is tracking woke curriculum and liberal indoctrination in schools and invites parents to submit examples from their children’s schools.

Education secretary Betsy DeVos said teachers’ unions’ bid to keep schools closed during the pandemic amounts to “playing politics with children’s lives.”

A U.S. parents’ coalition asserts the indoctrination of students in revisionist history has led to the current battle over the 2020 presidential election.

Joe Biden falsely claimed U.S. schools are unable to open for in-person learning during the pandemic because “they need a lot of money.”

A Brown University economist’s analysis of data on nearly 200,000 children in 47 states has concluded K-12 schools are not “super-spreaders” of the coronavirus.

A survey showed 66-70 percent of likely voters in 5 battleground states support K-12 school choice, which Joe Biden has rejected.

The Mona Shores, Michigan, school board has rescinded its support for the Black Lives Matter movement after a resolution backing it drew the ire of many in the community.

House Republican Reps. Ken Buck and Rick Allen introduced a bill that would ban federal funds for teaching the New York Times’s revisionist “1619 Project.”

U.S. Civil Rights Commissioner Peter Kirsanow said the “1619 Project” is “one of the most significant attempts to propagandize history.”

In an audio clip of a reported conference call between Los Angeles County Public Health Director Dr. Barbara Ferrer and school officials, Ferrer is heard saying K-12 schools within the county would not be opening until after the election in November.

Chaos and turmoil descended upon one of the largest K-12 public school systems in the suburbs of Buffalo, New York, after Williamsville Central Schools Superintendent Scott Martzloff announced Friday that virtual classes for more than 1,000 students in grades 5-12 would be delayed because 90 staff members took leaves of absence because of coronavirus and more than 100 resigned or retired.

The office of Utah Gov. Gary Herbert (R) confirmed late Wednesday students and employees of the state’s K-12 schools who refuse to wear masks in the buildings may be faced with a misdemeanor charge.

Two Wall Street Journal reporters write that the national experiment in remote learning, courtesy of the coronavirus pandemic, has failed.

Parents are fully capable of teaching their children at home, said Dr. Kathleen O’Toole, associate provost for Hillsdale College’s K-12 charter school initiative, on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily.

A study reveals a historic drop in U.S. student reading and math scores since the adoption of the Common Core standards more than a decade ago.

Teachers’ unions and other stakeholders in government-run K-12 schools are seeking billions of dollars in funding in coronavirus relief.

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has released resources for K-12 teachers and local officials on managing student privacy and ensuring disabled students receive required services during school closures due to the coronavirus outbreak.

Washington parents are fighting a Democrat bill that would mandate LGBTQ-focused sex ed for children, including kindergartners.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) announced Friday he is officially putting an end to the Common Core Standards in his state and replacing them with standards that “embrace common sense.”

A U.S. Education Department investigation has initially revealed $1.3 billion in unreported donations to U.S. universities from foreign countries such as China, Russia, and Qatar.