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SAN ANTONIO, Texas — Just outside the federal immigration courtroom in downtown San Antonio, organizers with the Party for Socialism and Liberation led an anti-ICE protest attended by more than 100 people. One passionate speaker identified herself as a San Antonio public school teacher, leading the crowd in chants calling for the end of ICE and the Police. Breitbart Texas captured video of Corrie Rosen, who identified herself as a public-school teacher and protest organizer with the San Antonio chapter of the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) at a protest on Sunday outside San Antonio’s city hall. Demonstrators carried...

An Oregon middle school encouraged students to dress up as "drag queens" and their favorite "queer hero" this week in celebration of Pride Month, but one parent said families weren't notified ahead of time. At the Arts & Technology Academy in the Eugene School District 4J, students celebrated "Pride Spirit Week" with a different theme each day intended to celebrate the LGBTQ+ community, according to a memo obtained by Fox News Digital. On Monday, students were encouraged to "wear as many colors as they could" for "Rainbow-Out" day. On Tuesday, they were told to wear all black "in remembrance of...

The New Jersey Senate is set to consider a bill on Thursday that would require families who homeschool their children to register with their local governments and the governments to publish their data. Senate Bill 1796 (SB 1796), sponsored by New Jersey state Sen. Angela McKnight (D) would require a “parent or guardian to annually notify” their local school district, in written form, of their intention to homeschool their children. “The letter shall include the name, date of birth, and grade level of the child, and the name of the person who will provide instruction to the child,” the latest...

America’s eighth-largest school district handed taxpayer cash to Planned Parenthood to train teachers that biological sex is a “myth,” according to documents obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. Philadelphia School District (PSD), which oversees almost 200,000 students, paid Planned Parenthood Southeastern Pennsylvania (PPSP) nearly $40,000 in Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) HIV grant funds to provide up to 70 trainings which decry biological sex as a “myth,” support medical child sex-changes and normalize men in women’s sports, according to documents obtained by the DCNF through a public records request. Planned Parenthood delivered Comprehensive Sexual Education to more...

What do a BDSM expert from a clinic providing trans surgeries and representatives from organizations that help facilitate gender transitions have in common? They were scheduled to speak at a California high school during a recent week of events supporting LGBTQ students, Susan Crabtree at RealClearPolitics reports. And this will shock you – parents were not notified beforehand.

An Arkansas kindergarten graduation descended into madness when a large brawl broke out between parents, forcing school officials to scold the “unacceptable” behavior displayed in front of the little tykes. Several adults threw punches at each other in the hallway of West Memphis’ Faulk Elementary on Wednesday as the frightened screams of nearby children filled the crowded corridor. Multiple men and women were in the center of the melee, plowing through the school as other parents rushed to get their children away from the danger, according to video obtained by WREG. Kids could also be heard crying “stop” in the...

The State Board of Education suspended Jesse Ruiz's license for two years after finding he wrote inappropriate messages in students' yearbooks. (the message was "hail satan")

Parents across the political spectrum are up in arms after San Francisco's school district announced a new plan that will see pass marks lowered. Superintendent of Schools Maria Su unveiled the new 'Grading for Equity' plan last night that will scrap homework and weekly testing, and allow students to pass with scores as low as 41 - down from the current pass mark of 61. It comes after left-wing activists argued that homework and testing disproportionately affects students from poorer backgrounds and creates an uneven playing field. But even liberals pushed back against the new policy. Ro Khanna, a Democratic...

The father of a teen football star who was stabbed to death at a college track meet has challenged a school's decision to let his killer graduate. Jeffrey Metcalf has filed a formal complaint about Centennial High School awarding Karmelo Anthony his diploma - despite being accused of murdering his son Austin. Anthony, 18, is alleged to have pulled the knife on 17-year-old Austin at the stadium in Frisco, Texas, on April 2, before his victim bled out in his twin brother's arms. The sickening attack has since sparked a toxic culture war as some rowed in behind the attacker...

A transgender student filmed three boys in a Virginia high school locker room who he claimed were bullying him for his gender identity. But his attempt to ostracize them backfired when parents of the accused tormenters and the state's governor questioned why the three boys were being filmed secretly inside the locker room in the first place. Earlier this month, Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) launched a Title IX investigation after the trans student recorded a friend group that was uncomfortable with a biological female being in the changing room. Stone Bridge High School, where the video was taken, is...

A 24-year-old Venezuelan migrant was arrested for pretending to be a minor to enroll in an Ohio high school. The Venezuelan man claimed to be a trafficked teenager and enrolled in the school in January 2024. Perrysburg, Ohio, police officers arrested 24-year-old Anthony Labrador on May 19 during a traffic stop after learning of his alleged fraudulent school enrollment. The Venezuelan migrant was illegally present in the United States after his visa expired in 2023. A Perrysburg family with adopted children took the man, claiming to be a 16-year-old boy, into their home, WTVG ABC13 reported. Labrador’s plans came unraveled...

A local megachurch is rallying behind three male students at Stone Bridge High School in Ashburn, Virginia, who are being investigated for sexual harassment after complaining about a female student who identifies as a boy in the boys' locker room. On Sunday, Gary Hamrick, senior pastor of Cornerstone Chapel in Leesburg, introduced the boys to his congregation and pledged his support for them. "When I had heard about these three young men who attended Stone Bridge High School had been accused of sexual harassment just because they questioned a female in the boys' locker room, I just felt compelled, as...

A Hernando High School teacher and football coach was arrested last week after police say he gave a student Kratom. Kratom is a drug that, in low doses, produces stimulant-like effects like high energy and increased alertness. In high doses, it can act as a sedative. The Hernando County Sheriff’s Office said on May 9, a school resource deputy responded to a classroom where a 17-year-old student was having a medical emergency. The student was unresponsive, had a rapid pulse, shallow breathing and was hot to the touch, the deputy said. He performed a sternum rub on the student, who...

The Texas House on Wednesday passed with strong bipartisan support a bill to address what’s been called the “sexual abuse crisis” in Texas public schools. HB 4623, filed by state Rep. Mitch Little, R-Lewisville, seeks to provide redress in response to tens of thousands of complaints filed against Texas educators. “We have a sexual abuse crisis in our public schools in Texas. It’s indisputable and we can’t look away,” Little said when discussing his bill on the House floor Tuesday night. “In 2019, this chamber established a mandatory educator misconduct reporting portal. Between September 21, 2021, and July 2024, there...

Shocking footage captured the moment parents exploded into a wild brawl after a children's choir concert in Texas. The melee unfolded Monday at West Plains High School in Amarillo after students finished performing for their families. Several parents were seen shoving each other in the hall, including one woman in a blue top who punched a man in the back of the head. One man in a vest appeared to be at the center of the fight when it broke out, and he was held back by several others as he squared off with another man in a white t...

An alleged teen killer accused of stabbing a sporting rival in cold blood has been thrown another bone after being granted bail. Karmelo Anthony has now been told he can graduate from high school, Daily Mail can reveal. Frisco Independent School District's about-face, deciding Anthony, 17, can graduate from Centennial High School despite his first-degree murder charge, as confirmed by his adviser and spokesman Dominque Alexander to DailyMail.com. The reversal is likely to be controversial. The murder case has become a flashpoint about race and privilege, garnering national attention. Anthony is accused of stabbing Austin Metcalf, 17, in the chest...

CV NEWS FEED // The Educational Choice for Children Act (ECCA) is included in House Republicans’ omnibus tax bill, US Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-LA, announced May 12. Cassidy, a chief sponsor of the ECCA, said in a post on X that the inclusion of the act in what President Donald Trump has called the “one big, beautiful bill” is a victory for parents and children. Cassidy and US Sen. Tim Scott, R-SC, led the introduction of the ECCA, which offers a charitable donation incentive for people and businesses who help fund scholarship awards to offset expenses for qualified students’ public...

A school board in Colorado cannot remove sexually explicit, profane, and “transgender” books from school libraries because the school board is conservative, according to a federal judge touted as the first openly lesbian judge west of the Mississippi. The ACLU’s Colorado chapter filed a suit on behalf of two minors, the NAACP Wyoming State Area Conference, and the Authors Guild, claiming that the school district engaged in viewpoint discrimination when removing the books. The judge granted a preliminary injunction in March, forcing the Elizabeth School District (in Elizabeth, a suburb southeast of Denver) to restore the books. Judge Charlotte Sweeney...

A newly enacted Tennessee law prohibits schools from punishing employees and teachers for referring to trans-identified students by their given name and pronouns, as public school staff in other states have faced professional repercussions for declining to use trans-identified students' preferred names and pronouns. Tennessee's Republican Gov. Bill Lee signed House Bill 1270 into law Friday. Lee's approval of the legislation follows its passage by the Republican-controlled Tennessee House of Representatives in a 77-18 vote and the Republican-controlled Tennessee Senate in a 27-6 vote. The vote in the Senate fell along party lines, with all support for the measure coming...

Many parents believe sex education is simply part of a standard education, but a closer look at its origins paints a disturbing picture of its true nature. Few are aware that some of the power players in sex education today have an extensive history with the porn industry, direct ties to a researcher who recruited pedophiles for his ‘research,’ and ties to a man who wanted to destigmatize bestiality. Many of the founders and originating leaders of SIECUS (originally known as the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States) — a member of the Future of Sex Education...