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More than 5,000 teachers have signed a Zinn Education Project pledge, vowing to defy laws banning the teaching of Critical Race Theory.

Several King County, Washington, activist teachers revealed to Crosscut how they inject race and “equity” lessons into their elementary classrooms.

Summer school was intended to help students catch up after many schools were closed to in-person learning this year, but parents are finding the woes are continuing.

Minneapolis Public Schools defended throwing out bins of books, claiming they no longer met “the guidelines for highest-quality books for our students.”

The U.S. Supreme Court denied review of a case Monday asking if public schools need to embrace transgender policies, leaving in place a lower court’s decision requiring a Virginia high school to allow students to use bathrooms and shared locker rooms of whatever sex they identify with.

Former President Donald Trump twice called for a ban on Critical Race Theory in American schools, the military, and federal agencies at an Ohio rally Saturday.

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s (D) administration recommended Friday students continue wearing masks in the classroom next school year.

The Free to Learn Coalition announced Thursday that it launched a seven-figure ad campaign in an attempt to remove “woke curriculum” from schools and called for essential subjects to be taught in schools free of political agendas.

The Loudoun County, Virginia school board cut off a comment period and sicced police on residents Tuesday after they criticized leaders over transgender and race policies.

School districts that lost student enrollment during the pandemic are facing the reality those students will stay with their new education choices.

The unionized employees of the nation’s largest teachers union have authorized a strike, claiming the National Education Association (NEA) is engaging in “anti-union” tactics amid contract negotiations.

The Paso Robles, California, school district will consider banning Critical Race Theory (CRT) lessons at its Tuesday board meeting.

Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI) earned ire from a constituent after she refused to take a position on Critical Race Theory lessons in classrooms.

A video clip released Wednesday shows an Albemarle County, Virginia school administrator saying parents cannot opt out a student from Critical Race Theory (CRT) lessons because they are “woven through” all class work.

A significant number of students across the country fell behind as ill-equipped school districts attempted to teach them over Zoom and other virtual platforms.

The Wellesley, Massachusetts school district has called for students and teachers to report their peers and colleagues for “incidents of bias.”

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on Monday signed a bill requiring public schools to carve out a daily moment of silence so students can “reflect and be able to pray as they see fit.”

The Cobb County, Georgia school board banned Critical Race Theory (CRT) lessons Thursday from classrooms.

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds (R) signed a bill into law Tuesday that bans the teaching of the tenets of Critical Race Theory (CRT), including “assigning fault, blame, or bias to a race or sex, or to members of a race or sex because of their race or sex.”

The Biden Department of Education outlined Wednesday how it will spend the “American Rescue Plan’s historic funding for schools” in order to advance “equity” as a central focus of education in the nation’s public schools.

The murder rate in Virginia rose 43 percent during Terry McAuliffe’s governorship, Republican gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin said.

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) vetoed a bill that would have exempted graduation crowds from her coronavirus capacity restrictions.

The San Francisco public school enrollment is plummeting as mostly white families are fleeing the district, a report at the San Francisco Chronicle said Wednesday.

Baltimore schools will move all students on to the next grade despite “tens of thousands” of them receiving failing marks during the disrupted academic year.

A Michigan high school will allow the valedictorian to reference her faith in her speech after receiving a letter from First Liberty Institute.

A Long Island high school created two sets of rules for vaccinated and unvaccinated students attending prom this year.

A woke Maine superintendent said an anti-CRT parent may attend his daughters’ graduation if he meets certain “conditions” and “expectations.”

The superintendent of the school district for Cumberland and North Yarmouth, Maine, denied to Breitbart News his district uses Critical Race Theory (CRT), and referred to a parent who has vehemently opposed woke education as “a vile person.”

The Palm Beach, Florida, school board is rethinking its controversial statement to combat “white advantage” from a statement about “equity” in education.

Utah’s House and Senate Republicans passed resolutions this week against using critical race theory (CRT) in schools. 

A Michigan high school created a two-tiered price structure for its prom this year: $80 for unvaccinated students and free for those who have received a coronavirus vaccine.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis made his intentions clear Tuesday for children returning to school in the fall semester during a bill signing ceremony.

The superintendent of Bellingham School District in Washington defended reading a transgender book to first graders without parents’ consent.

A Minnesota school choice movement founded in the black community aims to challenge the “woke” culture narrative that America is a systemically racist nation “structured to undermine the lives of black Americans.”

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt (R) signed a bill Friday that will ban the teaching of Critical Race Theory in the state’s public schools.

Parents were reportedly dismissed by school officials after protesting a teacher’s decision to read a transgender book to first-graders.