Tag: school board

California Parents Blast School Boards for Linking Criticism of CRT With Domestic Terrorism

Parents opposed to critical race theory (CRT) in California classrooms are outraged over accusations from school boards that criticism of ethnic studies curriculums based on CRT and other neo-Marxist ideologies is linked to domestic terrorism. The National School Boards Association (NSBA), which denies CRT is being taught in K-12 schools, in a Sept. 29 letter…


Pennsylvania Democrats Protest Curriculum Transparency Bill

The idea of parents having easy access to their children’s school curriculum was vigorously debated Wednesday in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. Pennsylvania code already allows parents to have access to school curriculum, but house Bill 1332 proposes putting that information on school websites. Some school districts already do this, but other districts require parents…


NTD Evening News Full Broadcast (Oct. 5)

A Facebook whistleblower testifies before the Senate, the director of the National Institutes of Health will step down by the end of the year, and the Department of Justice launches an effort with the FBI to combat threats parents have directed toward school board members.


Education Secretary Miguel Cardona Won’t Say Parents Are ‘Primary’ Stakeholders in Children’s Education

U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona refused to say at a congressional hearing that parents are the “primary” stakeholders in their children’s education. Near the end of his Sept. 30 hearing before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, Cardona was asked by Sen. Mike Braun (R-Ind.) about what he thinks of parents…


Learn from Minnesota: How to Run for School Board…. And Win!

Commentary It’s fair to say the rise of Critical Race Theory—the idea that one’s race, rather than one’s character, is the most important thing in one’s life—as the governing principle in many, if not most, U.S. schools at all levels has both astonished and alerted parents across the country to what has happened to our…


Virginia School Board Rejects State’s Transgender Pronoun, Restroom Policies

A county school board in Virginia last week rejected the state’s new policy regarding the treatment of transgender students after hundreds of community members showed up to voice their opposition to the rule changes. Watched by a crowd of nearly 500 concerned citizens, the Russell County school board on July 16 voted 7–0 to reject…


Virginia School Board Meeting Cut Short, Parent Arrested Amid Heated Debate on Transgender Policy

Police declared an unlawful assembly and arrested one at a Loudoun County, Virginia, school board meeting on Tuesday night, as tension escalated over the board’s proposed policy on transgender students. The proposed policy (pdf) in question, according to the school district’s website, would require staff at Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) to address “gender-expansive or…


NTD Evening News Full Broadcast (June 22)

A United States Senator tells NTD that a democrat-backed election bill does not hold up to its namesake “For the People,” hundreds of parents, students, and community members flood a school board meeting in Loudoun County, Virginia, and a transgender weightlifter is headed to the Olympics amid criticism from athletes and woman.


‘I Was Stunned’: Minnesota Girl Speaks out Against BLM Poster in Classroom

A 9-year-old girl from Minnesota has gone viral online after confronting her local school board, which she said had contradicted its own “no politics” policy by displaying a Black Lives Matter (BLM) poster in a classroom. The girl, who only identified herself as “Novalee,” is a student at an elementary school in Lakeview Area Schools,…


Petition Calls for Resignation of New Jersey School Board Members After Holiday Names Replaced With Generic ‘Day Off’

A petition has been launched calling for the resignation of school board members in a New Jersey county over their vote last week to remove holiday names from the school calendar and replace them with a generic “day off” designation. The petition, created on the platform Change.org by a user identified as Thomas Tatem on…