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VIDEO Commies and their Democrat allies HATE transparency in government. They much prefer to work in secret so as to keep their real agenda out of the public eye. One of these odious types is one Arben Istrefi who in his role as vice chair of the Loudoun County (VA) School Board. Despite running for school board on a platform supporting "transparency" this lying weasel voted AGAINST the use of cameras at public meetings of the school board. He also tried to glom onto another government job by running for the Virginia House to be a Delegate but, fortunately, was...

In total, the Minnesota Parents Alliance says it helped 80 candidates win elections to local school boards this election cycle.. In just its third election cycle since its inception, the Minnesota Parents Alliance saw its endorsed candidates win a number of pivotal school board races across the state. The grassroots organization said its candidates helped clinch parent-aligned majorities in four major school districts this election: Lakeville, Prior Lake-Savage, Elk River and Forest Lake. In Lakeville School District #194, MPA-endorsed candidates Paul Carbone and Matt Swanson won two of the three seats up for grabs among a field of nine candidates....

Two members of a North Texas school board that voted to remove a superintendent who objected to a same-sex "kiss" during a school play belong to the same LGBT-affirming denominational church. A recent investigation commissioned by the Sherman ISD Board of Trustees revealed that former Superintendent Tyson Bennett intervened in the casting of the high school musical "Oklahoma!" with the intent to prevent same-sex kissing. This intervention came to light after a female student who identifies as a male was removed from her leading male role in the production last November, a decision that sparked a national conversation surrounding gay,...

On Monday, the Supreme Court declined to hear a case brought by parents who accused the Department of Justice of improperly using the FBI to target them for their opposition to school board curricula or policies, the Washington Examiner reported.

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson appointed a new school board Monday, days after all seven members resigned amid an escalating fight over control of the public schools in the nation’s third-largest city. Johnson has been trying to oust Chicago Public Schools CEO Pedro Martinez, who was named to the job in 2021 by Johnson's predecessor, former Mayor Lori Lightfoot. Johnson, a former Chicago Teachers Union organizer, has clashed with Martinez, including over how best to close gaps in the district's nearly $10 billion budget. Martinez has declined to resign, citing the need for stability in the district. Rather than step into...

SMYTH COUNTY, Va. (WJHL) — The vice chairman of the Smyth County School Board has been arrested on charges of child exploitation, according to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). The DOJ announced in a news release that Todd Stewart Williams was arrested at his home Friday. Williams allegedly spent more than $10,000 between May 2022 and January 2024 to purchase nude images and sexually explicit videos from juvenile victims. The DOJ reports Williams enticed at least six victims during that time. An investigation into Williams began after a 15-year-old in Oklahoma reported to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)...

The noteworthy British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli once remarked that “there are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics.” The Ancient Greek playwright Aeschylus also observantly wrote ”in war, truth is the first casualty.” There could easily be another corollary to these great quotes that could go ... in the battle over school board recalls, there are lies, damn lies, and recall campaign slogans. The Temecula Valley Unified School District recall campaign against current School Board President Dr. Joseph Komrosky is a prime example of the lies and mistruths perpetrated by a leftist dominated coalition of local...

HENRY COUNTY, Ga. — After a court victory, a former teacher who sued her school district is hoping for a victory at the polls. A jury awarded former Cotton Indian Elementary teacher Sheri Mimbs six-figure monetary damages after she says she was fired for not giving students grades they didn’t earn. “It was like a sigh of relief. A weight off my shoulders,” Mimbs told Channel 2′s Tom Jones about the six-year battle against the Henry County School System, and a jury reaching a verdict in her favor. “That’s a victory for me. That’s a victory for these teachers,” she...

The Loudoun County School Board has a concerning parallel to George Orwell’s Ministry of Truth in 1984. After voting to turn off the cameras during public comment this week, the district’s school board members are now considering additional measures to further limit and silence dissent during their meetings. The majority of the school board members would like to teach their beliefs, such as the acceptability of allowing males to use females’ school bathrooms and locker rooms, and suppress parents’ ability to say otherwise. On Thursday, Democratic-endorsed school board member April Chandler outlined more ways they might restrict parental input. Claiming...

This is a story you won’t see in the mainstream media. If this can happen in a rural Indiana town of only 15,000 people in a Republican “fly-over” state, it can happen in your town. A brave 11-year-old girl spoke out at a Lebanon, Indiana school board meeting earlier this year on January 16, 2024 in which she describes how she and other girls are forced to share a locker room with a boy while at school. “I’m here to discuss the matter of a male being in the female locker room. Imagine this is you -- you’re an 11-year-old...

Grandpa RIPS this school board to shreds.

Billionaire Harvard donor Bill Ackman is calling for the resignation and replacement of the school's board, which he says is just as much to blame for its problems as ousted president Claudine Gay.Gay resigned yesterday, finally bowing to calls to stand down a month after her calamitous congressional testimony about campus antisemitism and amid growing accusations of academic plagiarism throughout her scholar career...Unsatisfied with Gay's resignation, he says the school's leadership is so deeply flawed that it requires a total overhaul.'The Corporation Board should not remain in their seats protected by the unusual governance structure which enabled them to obtain...

A Maryland county claims under the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, it can create a school board seat that only illegal immigrants can vote for, according to reports. The Washington Times reported that Howard County officials appeared before a federal court of appeals last month and defended its current process of having a school board seat occupied by a student, in which only public school students are allowed to vote for. Some Howard County residents are challenging the practice on the basis of it being unconstitutional discrimination in voting, particularly against the county general electorate and students at religious...

In a move that has raised eyebrows and stirred controversy, Fairfax County School Board member Karl Frisch was recently sworn into his second term on a stack of homosexual-themed books, a deliberate choice that diverges from the traditional practice of taking an oath on a religious text. Among these books, one notably included graphic content featuring children. This act, symbolic of Frisch’s stance, is a manifestation of the broader debate surrounding the inclusion of such books in school curriculums and libraries. This incident provides a window into the ongoing discourse regarding the appropriateness of LGBTQ-themed books in educational settings. Books...

Taking a sworn oath of office on a Bible meant that you were imperiling your immortal soul if you lied or broke your oath. What in the world are you committing to when you swear in on erotic quasi-fiction for pederasts and groomers?Well, I can’t answer that question, but Karen Smith, an incumbent school board president for Central Bucks School District in Doylestown, Pennsylvania sure could! Last week, Smith was reelected to “serve” as head of the board, and instead of ceremoniously swearing in on a Bible, she opted for a stack of “banned” books, including at least three controversial...

A school district in Lynchburg, Virginia, has received multiple death threats after the Washington Post published an article that claimed the board created a “blueprint for how to belittle, betray and dismiss kids” because it refused a $10,000 donation from a radical LGBT-pushing group. The Lynchburg City School Board voted 7 to 2 against the creation of LGBT “safe spaces” in its schools – designed to take children out of lessons and allow them to talk about their feelings in “comfortable chairs, blankets and low light” – with funds from the charity “It Gets Better.” The rejection infuriated Petula Dvorak...

A parent school board meeting in Brooklyn descended into hate and chaos as more than two dozen people, including many Israel supporters, were tossed from the virtual event. The Wednesday meeting was the first for the Community Educational Council for District 14, which covers Williamsburg and Greenpoint, since its controversial promotion of a Nov. 9 pro-Palestinian rally in which hundreds of students walked out of school, including some who yelled “f–k the Jews!” A father who questioned the organizations CEC 14 partnered with for the walkout, including Youth for Palestine, was told by Vice President Marissa Manzanares, “Redirect yourself or...

A 1st-grade teacher in Palm Beach County, Florida, a “River From the Sea Palestine Will Be Free” advocate, is about to find out how decent Americans support each other in times of crisis, and so will the Palm Beach County School District. Lauren Gross of The Gross Family Center For The Study of Antisemitism And The Holocaust has inspired five hundred people to send a letter to Superintendent Burke and the School Board of the School District of Palm Beach County asking for the dismissal of Layann Alhunaidi. On Nov. 10, I wrote about Layann Alhunaidi, a local elementary school...

During the public comment section of a recent school board meeting, a Florida mother attempted to share a sexually explicit image featured in a school library book, but she was promptly interrupted, the New York Post reported. Julie Gebhards, a Tampa resident, addressed the Hillsborough County school board, hoping to bring attention to an inappropriate graphic novel in the district’s libraries. Gebhards explained that “Blankets” by Craig Thompson, which features sexually explicit images and passages, was approved unanimously by Plant City High School’s seven-person panel, despite being challenged by parents. “This is in children’s libraries here in Hillsborough County,” she...

What would you call a person who refused to honor the victims of 9/11 and now opposes honoring the victims of Hamas’ brutal attack in Israel? The answer? A Fairfax County school board member. ... Glenn Youngkin is governor of Virginia today because northern Virginia school boards have veered so far left that they engage in conspiracies to hide trans-“women” raping girls in their bathrooms, and terrorist sympathizers oppose condemning terrorists. Fairfax and Loudoun Counties both abut the District of Columbia and are filled with government workers and contractors who form the core of the Democrat coalition, which means they...