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Fulfilling a campaign promise, the Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction, Tom Horne, officially launched a tip line for parents to report “inappropriate” teaching in the classroom. The tip line, called the Empower Hotline, was lauded on the state’s Department of Education website. The state agency’s website said the tip line allows for the reporting “about inappropriate […]

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has squared off against The College Board, which is an organization that designs Advanced Placement (AP) courses in high schools across the country, over an AP course on black American history. DeSantis, and the Florida Department of Education, claimed that The College Board bowed to their demands to remove offensive, age-inappropriate […]

Multiple school districts in Florida are at an impasse with the Florida Education Association (FEA) teachers’ union when it comes to distributing pay raises to teachers, which pay raises will come from a sum of $800 million. School districts blamed the teachers’ union for stalling their efforts to raise teacher pay, but the FEA did […]

The top deputy to Biden’s education secretary was accused of violating an ethics pledge of the Biden administration after openly coordinating efforts between a former employer and the Department of Education. Donna Harris-Aikens, who is Secretary Miguel Cardona’s deputy chief of staff, apparently violated the Biden Ethics Pledge which prevented Biden appointees from engaging in […]

The state of Florida rejected The College Board’s Advanced Placement (AP) course on African-American studies over allegations of “woke” material. Gov. Ron DeSantis said that the state education agency rejected the course because it pushed a political agenda, which claim the course’s authors rejected. The Associated Press reported the news, which came about a week […]

Leave it to the federal government to mess up or create more confusion, especially when it comes to pandemic relief funding. The Department of Education, run by Education Secretary Miguel Cardona, recently issued guidance on how school districts should use federal funds. The 74 reported that the federal agency released a ninety-seven page document which […]

West Virginia admitted that it is having a certification problem with teachers, with many teachers not carrying the proper teaching certification for the classrooms that they currently teach. WV Metro News reported that 1,544 teachers are not fully certified to teach in their classrooms, which is a marked uptick from previous years. Last year, the […]

The Florida Department of Education placed the state’s teachers on notice: If teachers choose to violate the “Parental Rights in Education” law, they could lose their professional teaching license. Local news outlet WPTV reported about the punishment for potentially-disobedient teachers, which spurred further criticism from the Left. The law, called the ‘Don’t Say Gay” law […]

In an act of defiance, the Biden administration signaled that it will continue to receive and process applications for its student loan debt forgiveness program while lawsuits to stop the program are filed across the country. NBC News reported that the Department of Education will move forward with its student loan debt forgiveness program despite […]

The Department of Education used taxpayer dollars to fund a webinar supportive of transgender and nonbinary students that also disputed common biological knowledge. The Washington Free Beacon reported that the webinar featured remarks from a Denver public school teacher named Sam Long. Long is a transgender person and teaches biology at Denver South High School. […]

The Virginia Department of Education, which has sparred with the left-wing media and transgender activists, declined to release emails and documents about Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s proposals about transgender student policies. Youngkin, much to the chagrin of the Left, announced that the state of Virginia will empower parents and limit teacher or administrator control over students. […]

After weeks of waiting, the Biden administration delivered a blow to its own progressive agenda by scaling back its major campaign promise: forgiveness of student loan debt. Initially, Biden said that he would forgive student loan debt for the majority of borrowers. Yet, last week, the Department of Education quietly and stealthily changed the scope […]