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Teachers’ unions and their public school allies are pushing states to clamp down on charter schools during the coronavirus school closures.

Actress and radio host Sam Sorbo said the coronavirus crisis has inadvertently become the “impetus” for Americans to rethink education.

The National Education Association (NEA), the nation’s largest labor union, has endorsed Democrat Joe Biden for president.

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.

An 18-year-old Wisconsin high school student was arrested Thursday for fourth-degree sexual assault, child enticement, and exposing his genitals to a child in the school’s gender-neutral bathroom.

Parents in Madison, Wisconsin are suing the school district over a policy that lets children change gender identity without parental consent.

Texas A&M University hosted a sold-out drag queen show at the MSC Town Hall event that was co-sponsored by the A&M LGBTQ+ Pride Center.

A federal appeals court sided with a school district’s “student safety plan” that allows students to use bathrooms corresponding to gender identity.

School vouchers have proven to bring about a win-win situation for education, improving both private and public school outcomes, a new study reveals.

A Boston teacher’s union president has come under fire this week after encouraging Boston public school teachers to wear “Black Lives Matter” apparel to school. The Boston Police Union condemned the teacher demonstration, arguing that “Black Lives Matter” activists make police work “more dangerous than ever.”

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos will personally provide the scholarship that will allow Philadelphia fourth-grade student Janiyah Davis, who attended the State of the Union (SOTU) address, to enroll at the school of her choice.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren told attendees at a town hall in Cedar Rapids, Iowa Sunday that, if she is elected president, her education secretary will have to be approved by a transgender child.

The largest Minnesota teachers’ union is condemning a proposed amendment to the state Constitution that would make a quality public school education for all students a civil right.

New Jersey parents expressed outrage Wednesday over a new state law requiring public school students to learn about LGBT history and rights.

Rep. John Fillmore, a Republican Arizona state senator, is introducing bills to secure the practice of using biological pronouns in schools.

Former Vice President Joe Biden appeared to reverse course on charter schools during Saturday’s MSNBC Public Education Forum 2020 in Pittsburgh.

Arizona students may soon be required to recite the Pledge of Allegiance daily at school it was reported Thursday, as detailed in a bill proposed November 19 by state Rep. John Fillmore (R-AZ).

Warren spent decades stealing the privileges and promotions that came with her false claim of being a Cherokee Indian, and she’s lying about her children’s background.

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.

A transgender Super PAC influenced the election of Chicago school board members who approved a radical policy allowing students who claim to be transgender unrestricted access to locker rooms regardless of their biological sex.

A new study affirms what many public policy analysts say is intuitive — that unstable family structure, including chaotic households and single-parent homes, is a primary factor in racial disparities in school behavior and suspensions.

A Colorado English teacher created controversy by assigning the sexually explicit poem Howl to his high school students without obtaining the approval of parents.

A teacher reportedly defended the presence of a drag queen during a school class, asserting the parents who objected are “bigoted” and “should not have the final say” in raising their own children.

Taxpayers in the small town of Worthington, Minnesota this week hiked taxes to fund an expansion of their school district since mass immigration has overwhelmed teachers, resources and classrooms. 

Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) is proposing to extend existing school days in order to better match up with the average adult’s workweek, Mother Jones reports.

The Austin Independent School District board voted in favor of a radical LGBT sex ed curriculum that normalizes gender ideology.

A concerned mother is challenging an all halal-certified meat policy imposed by the Michigan public school district that includes the Dearborn region, dubbed the “Arab capital of North America,” Breitbart News learned from conservative commentator Pamela Geller.

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.

School “lunch shaming” is now against the law in California, according to a bill signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom on Saturday. 

A new poll finds 81 percent of Democrat primary voters, including 89 percent of black Democrat primary voters, support charter schools.

Students throughout the United States will be celebrating the event known as Bring Your Bible to School Day on Thursday, October 3.

A Virginia teacher who was fired for refusal to use a transgender student’s preferred pronouns filed a lawsuit against the school district.

The Seattle public schools are using math (of all things) as just one more gateway drug into the destructive addiction of victimization.

Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers (R) said state comprehensive sex ed standards sexualize children and place them at high risk.

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.”

Parents in Oak Park, California, are condemning a new elementary school curriculum that pushes gender ideology in the classrooms of young children.