Legislative Topic: Education

Parents Sue Massachusetts School District For Allegedly Excluding White Students From Events

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A Massachusetts school district allegedly held racially segregated events that specifically excluded white students, according to a federal lawsuit filed by a non-profit group representing three families. Non-profit group Parents Defending Education filed a lawsuit in federal court on Tuesday afternoon, arguing that Wellesley Public Schools violated the constitutional rights of their students, and also suppressed students’ First Amendment … Continued

House Republicans Asked AG Merrick Garland to Withdraw Memo Tasking Feds to Investigate Parents

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Republicans on the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary have asked U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland to withdraw the memo (PDF) he wrote in response to the National School Boards Association’s letter (PDF) to President Joe Biden requesting that the federal government investigate parents under the Patriot Act for “domestic terrorism.” Parents across the country have been … Continued

Missouri and Ohio Terminate National School Board Association Membership Over Letter Labeling Parents ‘Domestic Terrorists’

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The National School Board Association on Friday apologized to the Biden Administration characterizing concerned parents at school meetings as potential domestic terrorists. The letter came just one day after the Washington Free Beacon obtained emails revealing the Biden Regime was coordinating with the NSBA in the weeks leading up to the program targeting and attacking American … Continued

Parents’ Group Sues Mass. School District Over Racial Segregation, Abuse of Students

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national parents’ group filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against a public school district in Massachusetts for allegedly violating the U.S. Constitution by racially segregating students into “affinity groups” and imposing a student speech code. The lawsuit comes as parents and the education establishment across the United States are battling over critical race theory and the systemic … Continued

The battle over school boards is a disaster for Democrats

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The recent announcement by the Justice Department that the FBI would be looking for coordinated patterns of violence at local school board meetings is a broad overreach and an abuse of power that goes beyond the FBI’s jurisdiction. If the Justice Department were serious about investigating coordinated violence in America, it would long ago have started … Continued

17 States Warn Federal Government Not to Threaten Parents Who Protest Local School Boards

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The National School Boards Association (NSBA) wrote a letter (PDF) to President Joe Biden in September asking for “federal assistance to stop threats” against school board members. Parents across the country are upset about what government schools are teaching their children, and school boards claim parents have threatened them. The organization invoked the Patriot Act, a controversial … Continued

‘Unprecedented’ Supply Chain Problems Hit School Cafeterias Across US

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A growing number of school districts have said that supply chain bottlenecks have forced them to suspend services or food items. A spokesperson for Denver Public Schools (DPS), Theresa Hafner, said Sunday that the district is “struggling to receive enough milk to serve to every child at breakfast and lunch every day,” saying that parents … Continued

Youngkin at Parents Matter rally in Culpeper: “The country needs us to win Virginia”

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Around 150 people, including representatives from various national and global media outlets, packed into The Pier restaurant in downtown Culpeper Wednesday for a “Parents Matter” campaign rally with Republican gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin. “We gotta all win together,” said the 54-year-old native Virginian and former CEO of The Carlyle Group private equity firm, in addressing … Continued

Virginia Dad Takes On the School Board

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Harry Jackson learns that educators don’t care what parents have to say. Harry Jackson left the Fairfax County School Board meeting Thursday night feeling frustrated. The father of a Thomas Jefferson High School sophomore, he had signed up to address the board about sexually explicit material in the school library, including work he and other … Continued

Remembering the Courage of Christopher Columbus

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By Ambassador Callista L. Gingrich and Speaker Newt Gingrich. Today we remember the Italian explorer Christopher Columbus, who in October 1492 landed in the Bahamas and became the first Western European to discover what the Europeans would call the New World. When Columbus and his crew of approximately 200 sailors left Spain in three crowded ships – … Continued

UCLA Professor Who Refused to Lower Grading Standards for Black Students Files Lawsuit Against UC System Over Lost Income

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In the aftermath of George Floyd’s death in 2020, a white student asked a professor to lower grading standards on the final exam for black students because of the “unjust murders of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor and George Floyd.” Accounting professor Gordon Klein thought this would be demeaning to black students. “Shocked by the student’s … Continued

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