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The president of the nation’s largest labor union says she is refusing to work with President Donald Trump and U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos because she does not trust their motives and cannot assume they will do what is best for children and families.

The editorial board of the Connecticut Law Tribune is recommending state lawmakers consider the regulation of homeschooling in order to evaluate the potential for child abuse by parents and assure the level of instruction is “equivalent” to what is offered in public schools.

Using #Questions4Betsy, some on the left mocked U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Twitter leading up to her testimony Tuesday before a Senate Appropriations subcommittee regarding the Trump administration’s proposed education budget for 2018.

U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos toured a rural Ohio public school district Thursday with American Federation of Teachers (AFT) president Randi Weingarten.

A video of a Senate hearing shows two state senators challenging the Texas Association of Business (TAB) president about his dire warnings of economic destruction if the “bathroom bill” is passed. One of the senators accused the TAB official of spreading “absolutely fake news.”

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

The New York City public school system has stopped serving a Kellogg’s brand cereal to students, replacing it with a healthier, organic brand of cereal made by a small California company.

Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy (D-WFP) issued an executive order Thursday instructing the state department of education to develop policies with local school districts that allow gender confused children to use the school bathrooms and locker rooms of whichever gender they identify with at any given time.

U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos says her department’s Office for Civil Rights “remains committed to investigating all claims of discrimination, bullying, and harassment” against “vulnerable” LGBT students in the nation’s schools.

A teacher from a Staten Island, New York school has been disciplined after giving her students a vocabulary assignment that contained an anti-Trump question.

Homeschooling families throughout the nation are voicing opposition to a Republican-sponsored school choice bill that they say will ultimately result in regulation of homeschooling in the United States.

A Dallas public school teacher was filmed in her classroom mockingly shooting President Donald Trump as a live feed was projected of his inauguration ceremony.

One Texas lawmaker’s bill, if passed during the 2017 legislative session, stands to derail school choice options for failing campuses by taking them down a progressive community schools path and bypassing existing options that include re-purposing a campus as a public charter school.

A school district is taking on new measures to shield migrants from federal immigration law, just as President-Elect Donald Trump is expected to crack-down on the issue.

The transgender bathroom battle is being hit straight-on in the Lone Star State. A state senator has pre-filed a bill which she says “seeks to put an end to a controversy that began in Washington D.C.”

Atheist group the American Humanist Association (AHA) is demanding a stop to public school children participating in nonprofit Operation Christmas Child, which collects shoe boxes filled with toys, school supplies, toothpaste, and soap for needy children.

The report, titled “Securing Equal Educational Opportunity,” shows that in fiscal year 2016 OCR processed 16,720 complaints, more than twice the 6,364 filed in fiscal year 2009.

A school district in Buffalo, New York offers services in 85 different languages for immigrants and refugees who enroll in school.

“We’ve contacted the Tacoma Public Schools District via email and letter announcing our intentions to start an After School Satan Club at Point Defiance Elementary, and have requested their Facility Use application so we may follow the correct procedures in applying,” says the Satanic Temple’s website.

A campaign initiated by the National Association for Bilingual Education and the Santa Clara County Office of Education says a teacher who mispronounces a student’s name is causing a negative emotional state that can lead to poor academic success.

While overall support for school choice has remained high over the past year, support for the use of vouchers to access the choice program has fallen, says a newly released Education Next (EdNext) poll.

Boys who “identify as” transgender girls must be allowed to share a room with real girls during overnight school trips, the communications officer for a school district in Maryland told teachers and administrators during a recorded training session.

Students for Life of America (SFLA) says its new initiative will be “the alternate voice to the abortion industry,” and will provide resources to middle schoolers that will “counter the infiltration of the abortion industry led by Planned Parenthood.”

A federal judge has entered an order blocking the Obama Administration’s mandate requiring public schools to allow transgender or gender fluid students to use the bathroom of their choice. The ruling comes just before many schools open for the fall.

President Barack Obama’s deputies will insert a rule in federal regulations on Friday that decrees all single-sex bathrooms in federal facilities must be opened to both sexes.

The new framework comes in response to a 2011 California state law requiring the inclusion of LGBT history in the content of what students are taught in history and social studies classes.

The Republican Platform Committee debated teaching Bible in school, in a measure that was ultimately adopted as a plank into the GOP platform.

According to TheRebel reporter Faith Goldy, a freedom of information request yielded 2,700 documents concerning the “fiasco” of placing “unassimilated Muslim migrant men” into Fredericton High School in New Brunswick.

Americans might ask further: why are people who want to “fundamentally change” America running the country? Indeed, those who have been educated to believe America is hateful will govern accordingly.

While even notoriously liberal San Francisco voters have rejected past efforts to grant voting privileges to illegals, Fox News reports that Mar thinks the backlash against Donald Trump will yield a strong turn-out of Latino and anti-Trump voters to the polls to pass his proposed charter amendment.

Children in kindergarten need to “understand there are many ways to express gender,” says a “core idea” in the newly released Washington State health and physical education standards.

The leaders address the Obama administration’s recent “Dear Colleague” letter that denigrates the traditional common sense safety and privacy gender policy that boys must use boys’ bathrooms and girls must use girls’ bathrooms in school settings.

The president of The Cardinal Newman Society – the premier organization that promotes and defends Catholic education – says Catholic schools should implement “human sexuality policies” that serve to protect the faith, not to conform to the federal government’s social engineering motives.

Oregon’s K-12 schools must allow students to use whichever single-sex bathroom or locker room they prefer, and to play on opposite sex sports teams, say new rules drafted by the state’s education department.

The Department of Justice has announced that 12 current and former Detroit public school principals, one school supply vendor, and one administrator have been indicted for engaging in a scheme worth one million dollars in bribes and kickbacks.

Recent violent attacks against teachers in the St. Paul, Minnesota public schools are being linked to the adoption of the Obama administration’s “equity” policies that have grown into an ideology in which certain racial and ethnic groups have become “untouchable” when it comes to school disciplinary action.