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Three Tennessee school boards denied the application of the American Classical Academy, a K-12 charter school system affiliated with Hillsdale College that provides students with a classic liberal arts education. The American Classical Academy alleges that these decisions are politically motivated and based on its ties to Hillsdale, which is Christian and conservative, as well as comments made by Hillsdale’s president, Larry Arnn.The American Classical Academy filed appeals with the Tennessee Public Charter School Commission, a group appointed by the governor. In two statements of intent, the American Classical Academy said that the Rutherford and Madison school boards did not...

For decades, political combatants under the hypnosis of leftist ideology have had a stranglehold on academia and the American education system. The largest teacher's union in the country advertises itself as non-partisan, but almost exclusively backs Democrat causes and candidates, and the culture of progressive thought so prevalent at the top trickled down, permeating all levels and spheres of education.We've seen schools devolve from institutions of traditional learning into dens of fallacy and pedophilia. City governments paying adult men for sexual performances in front of children, revisionist history to promote a Marxist agenda, and school libraries housing books with themes...

Florida flipped multiple major school boards from liberal to conservative Tuesday evening, continuing a nationwide trend of parents taking back control of public schools. Florida school board elections have been a major political battleground this cycle, with big names like Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) and Rep. Byron Donalds (R) making endorsements and joining the campaign trail. While primary elections occurred in Florida, New York, and Oklahoma Tuesday, Florida has general elections for school boards, meaning the winners will be the official members of the boards. Many of the winning candidates have been endorsed by the 1776 Project PAC, an organization...

Florida flipped multiple major school boards from liberal to conservative Tuesday evening, continuing a nationwide trend of parents taking back control of public schools. Florida school board elections have been a major political battleground this cycle, with big names like Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) and Rep. Byron Donalds (R) making endorsements and joining the campaign trail. While primary elections occurred in Florida, New York, and Oklahoma Tuesday, Florida has general elections for school boards, meaning the winners will be the official members of the boards. Many of the winning candidates have been endorsed by the 1776 Project PAC, an organization...

Florida flipped multiple woke school boards from liberal to conservative on Tuesday. Conservatives in Florida are fighting back against the left’s mission to brainwash children. The left is trying to force CRT, transgender propaganda and pronouns on young school kids. The good guys won tonight. “We saw massive election victories all throughout the state of Florida tonight,” 1776 Project PAC founder Ryan Girdusky told Breitbart News Tuesday. “It shows the desire of parents and residents across the country for some normalcy in our education system, and that means pushing against transgender ideology, critical race theory, critical gender ideology, and equity...

The two candidates Gov. Ron DeSantis endorsed for the Miami-Dade School Board were poised to win their primary election Tuesday night, with Roberto Alonso winning by a wide margin in the seat to succeed the board’s outgoing chairwoman and Monica Colucci moving forward to unseat longtime incumbent Marta Pérez in a very tight race. Alonso, 41, a businessman and Miami Dade College Board of Trustees member whom DeSantis appointed to the board in 2020, won against two challengers in the open seat vacated by former School Board Chair Perla Tabares Hantman, who had been the District 4 representative since 1996...

Public schools even for the youngest children are becoming playgrounds for the woke, featuring drag queens, transgender closets, Critical Race Theory and more, but if you say a word about it, the National Education Association (NEA) will destroy you. That is the message of a new YouTube ad from the NEA’s New Jersey chapter. According to Fox News Thursday, “the ad flips back and forth between colorful photos of teachers with students and black-and-white photos of parents, arguing that the latter are trying to fuse politics with education.” Which, of course, the hard-Left, thoroughly politicized NEA itself would never ever...

(Excerpt) During a conversation about alleged politicization at the Justice Department, along with former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe, Jordan made the case that the U.S. public has "figured it out" when it comes to the Left generating a lie, "Big Media" reports the lie, Big Tech amplifies the lie, and then they pile on Republicans when they catch on and say something. He said there are agents in the bureau who have realized the same. "Fourteen FBI agents have come to our office as whistleblowers, and they are good people," Jordan said. "There are lots of good people...

America is finally waking up to the fact that poisonous, divisive ideas are proliferating in public education, from pre-K to graduate school. The question is how to push back against such ideas. Solutions are easier in K-12; primary and secondary teachers do not have the same protections of academic freedom that college faculty have, and the K-12 curriculum is more tightly controlled by state agencies. The issue is more complex in academia, where academic freedom reigns and the curriculum is controlled by a decentralized faculty. The situation is also more dire at the college level: Higher education is where the...

The National Education Association passed a resolution during their annual Representative Assembly in Chicago that would allocate thousands of dollars to conduct opposition research on 25 organizations that are supposedly attacking gender identity and sexual orientation freedoms in public schools. "NEA shall compile research to create fact sheets about the largest 25 organizations that are actively working to diminish a students' right to honesty in education, freedom of sexual and gender identify, and teacher autonomy," the resolution said. NEA's resolutions are called new business items (NBI) and represent the teachers' union's opinions and beliefs. They also open the door to...

f it hadn’t been obvious before, it’s long since become a basic reality that those shouting loudest about “threats to democracy” are the threat. Attorney General Merrick Garland warned about threats to democracy in the U.S. and abroad in a commencement speech at Harvard University on Sunday. “Threats to democracy in the U.S. and abroad” is a convenient way to connect external and internal opposition, and thus use counterintelligence and other tools meant to be deployed against foreign adversaries against Republicans. We know this is true because this is what Obama/Biden has done. And we’re not just talking Trump Russiagate....

This past September, the National School Board Association (NSBA) sent a letter to resident Joe Biden claiming that "America’s public schools and its educational leaders are under an immediate threat" from angry parents speaking at school board meetings against mask policies, school closures, and woke critical race theory and gender ideology in K-12 education. To deal with these dastardly parents, the NSBA requested that the Biden Administration utilize "the expertise and resources of the U.S. Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Secret Service, and the National Threat Assessment Center" and that the...

Tina Descovich has been fighting for parental rights since she was elected to the Brevard County, Florida school board in 2016. But her mission is now shared by 85,000 other mothers in 34 states who joined Moms for Liberty and who now show up at school board meetings to hold officials accountable. They are also running for school board spots and other local offices — and winning. They’ve honed their skills by scouring websites and requesting public records to uncover the radical sexual and racial agenda being pushed in public schools across the land. “The sex ed curriculum their kids...

School boards across America continue to make national news for all the wrong reasons. Now, the Hudson School Board in Hudson, Ohio is getting its 15 minutes of fame after one concerned dad dared to challenge members on explicit content contained in the book “Gender Queer.” The dad read portions of the graphic novel titled “Gender Queer” that his two teenage boys found in the High School library at the board meeting. The dad prefaced his comments by making it clear he was NOT there to discuss sexuality. He is simply a caring father that wants to talk about the...

When enough is enough… Parents are suing a Massachusetts public school district for keeping their “genderqueer” and trans children’s identities and new pronouns a secret from them A lawsuit was filed Tuesday by two sets of parents, including parents of an 11 year old “genderqueer” girl and a transgender boy child, against Ludlow Public Schools in Massachusetts for violating their parental rights by actively concealing their two children’s gender identities and pronouns secret from them. The suit stands on the basis of violation of parental rights, due process, and religious freedom through injection of gender identity policies and aims to...

Despite the exposure of pornographic books in school libraries and Marxist critical race theory curricula in K-12 public schools, parental concern about the American school system remains under attack. In light of parents being repeatedly shut out of board meetings or having their concerns not only ignored, but called “distractions,” concerned taxpayers are hitting the ground educating others about school-system failures. Parents and grandparents are developing local websites that highlight questionable materials and policy within public schools. In North Carolina, several communities have come together to create these resources. In Wake County, a group created the Pavement Education Project which...

Transgendered people are foolish for thinking the left cares about them. Women fell for the same thing. The Democrats claimed they were all about “women’s rights” but tossed the babes under the bus when new victims, the transgenders, became the flavor of the day. Women now have no choice but to look at a “woman’s penis” in a spa or locker room. Don’t complain, ladies, lest you be punished. Did your daughter get booted off the team or lose a sports scholarship to a dude in pigtails? Suck it up, Sunshine. There is a new victim in town. Don’t worry...

After two years of pandemic frustrations, new conservative groups are sprouting across Colorado as women lead the GOP ballot for statewide elections.. Seven members of the Liberty Girls on March 15, 2022, in Highlands Ranch. About 315 women make up the Liberty Girls, a group organized by Donna Tompkins (lower right). “We're trying to stand up for things in our state and county and for electing people that we think will represent our values for our kids,” Tompkins said. ... Loveland grandmother Mickie Nuffer grew more concerned by the day as she watched people on television shouting about “defunding the...

States accuse Biden administration of concealing and downplaying its 'culpability' in school board memo.. Thirteen states have signed on to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit seeking Biden administration records on any FBI surveillance of parents protesting school boards. Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita, a former member of Congress, has taken the lead in the lawsuit against President Biden, Attorney General Merrick Garland and Education Secretary Miguel Cardona, citing a failure of U.S. officials to honor FOIA requests. The Indiana attorney general previously demanded all communications and records relating to the FBI's decision to investigate violent threats against local education...

California, one of the bluest states in the country, is sending a flashing warning signal to Democrats. They would do well to pay attention. Famously liberal San Franciscans voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to throw out of office three school board members who had been insufficiently attentive to parents’ concerns about prolonged classroom closures during the coronavirus pandemic. The board members also faced criticism for focusing their energies on uber-woke causes, such as changing the names of a third of the district’s schools (including, embarrassingly, ones honoring George Washington and Abraham Lincoln) and ending merit-based admissions at elite Lowell High School,...