_WHAT’S HAPPENING_

The Trump administration's Department of Education (DOE) is launching a coordinated crackdown on school districts it says are violating federal parental rights laws.

Multiple investigations have been announced targeting districts across the country for allegedly pushing inappropriate material and activities on students without parental knowledge or consent. Unlike under the previous administration, districts found in violation could now be stripped of federal funding.

_THE FACTS_

  • Burlington Public Schools in Massachusetts admitted it administered a survey to seventh graders with sexually explicit material after parents explicitly opted their children out, violating federal law.

  • Minnesota is under investigation over plans to provide transgender dolls with interchangeable genitalia to schools for children as young as four years old, without parental notification or opt-out options.

  • Secretary of Education Linda McMahon stated: "No four-year-old should be exposed to such material — especially without a parent's knowledge or consent."

  • Bethel School District in Washington is under investigation after a high school Pride display included vials of testosterone, a controlled substance; local law enforcement removed the display due to health and safety concerns.

  • Denver Public Schools is being investigated following allegations that a teacher made two female students kiss in class.

  • The Department's Office for Civil Rights is examining whether the districts in Washington and Colorado violated Title IX.

  • Districts that fail to comply with federal parental rights laws risk losing all federal funding.

  • DOE will soon roll out "significant actions,” including what it called an "Administration-wide crackdown on school districts that are secretly 'transitioning' students and hiding it from parents."

_OUR TAKE_

For years under Biden, school districts quietly operated as though parental rights didn't really apply to them. They ignored opt-out requests, hid sensitive content from parents, and gave materials to young children without telling anyone, like asking them about their “gender identity.” None of this was legal.

Now the Trump administration is actually enforcing the law, and districts are being made to put parents first. The Trump administration is not forcing conservative dogma into curricula or censoring anybody. They are simply asking schools to just be normal and not push woke, leftist ideologies onto children.

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Jennifer Vaughn3 months ago

People seeking to destroy children's innocence & identity need to be prosecuted. Schools should not be getting tax payer money to indoctrinate children into indecency & extreme leftism. I pray normal parents wake up and realize they can do better raising their own kids than leaving it up to these school systems. And I pray the woke/leftist parents also wake up and realize how much harm they are causing.

I pray that repentance and revival will sweep across our country... and that all the children already harmed by the various agendas of moral decay will find God and be healed.

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B Zimring3 months ago

Not only should woke schools lose federal funding but all schools should. The federal government has no constitutional role in education funding. This is a local and state matter. Get the feds out of the schools, period.

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Dennis Horak3 months ago

I agree withe the educational part. Maybe the only Fed funding could be used for hard goods; buildings, technology and maybe be bussing. This whole woke stuff is a bunch of crap.

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Joachim Huber3 months ago

Absolutely.

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Return to Faith3 months ago

Let's be thankful that the Trump administration is going after these rogue schools. They have absolutely no right to hide this brainwashing from the kids' parents. What arrogance these ideologues have.

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Jim Powers 3 months ago

Losing the funding won’t do it. The people responsible need to feel the pain.

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Jorge Rios3 months ago

Any school providing children with irroneous, twisted, false information should be completely defunded and criminal charges filed for child abuse and contributing to delinquency of a minor.

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Stuart Denny3 months ago

Jim Powers has it right. Teachers, administrators and school board members need to be made to feel pain through any and all legal means is available. Defunding is just a starting point.

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CD Hoopes3 months ago

The board/staff violating the law should be fired and prosecuted.

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Jim Powers3 months ago

Money speaks volumes to schools. I know that after working for a school district for 20 years. Take the money away and prosecute those guilty of these crimes.

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Lisa C3 months ago

This is why I voted the way I did. I was concerned about public schools in the state I live in (CA). I already took my kids out of public schools for charter schools. These public schools lost their purpose and really are indoctrination camps and training grounds for SJWs. I found a worksheet from the 2nd grade with a word match for words like “protest” “march” “ inclusive “ “inequality”. Why should a 2nd grader have to be learning these words at that age?

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Kylee Compton3 months ago

Ah yes, whatever happened to reading, Writing, arithmetic? You know, educating students on education stuff. Science experiments. History. What is education supposed to be? These schools have taken the Liberty to decide that gender ideology is more important than reading skills and math. It's an Abomination. Thank goodness I live in Texas! I know Texas is not perfect and there's probably stupid stuff going on here too, but for the most part Texas is still pretty conservative. Of course I chose to homeschool my children 12 years ago. I just couldn't stomach the way discipline and classroom management was happening with my ADHD child. No regrets!

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John Carr3 months ago

Should already have lost funding and be prosecuted

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Don G3 months ago

With the poor academic education currently pushed by liberal school boards it’s absolutely yes take away federal funding.

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Bonnie Hissom3 months ago

Yes, woke schools should not only lose their funding, but should be charged. Surely there’s a law.

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Jim Harmon3 months ago

Schools that ignore the law and the standards wanted by the majority of parents should not use taxpayer money to violate those standards. Let George Soros fund them.

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Fred Scott3 months ago

YES YES AND YE!

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Robert Daniels3 months ago

As a teacher, I am in agreement with the Trump Administration. Woke teachers need to go, woke administrators need to go, woke districts need to go. The problem starts at the top of the pile, if leadership doesn't give actual consequences to teachers for saying and doing the wrong things in class then you will get what we currently have in schools.

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Daniel Horwath3 months ago

Taking away funding is a waste of time. Money will be given back while the staff that perpetuated the problem remain . To get rid of the many problems in public " Education" there needs to be a complete overhaul, with emphasis on the 3 "R's".. Nothing else.

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Michael H.3 months ago

The woke agenda has NO PLACE in public education. Giving CHILDREN materials on subjects like sexuality should be done ONLY by the parents. More importantly, OPINION based lessons are for the PARENTS to teach. Public school teachers should teach FACTS rather than opinion. Also, it is extremely dangerous to keep vital information like a child "wanting" to "transition" from parents.

The concept of "transitioning" should not even be considered for CHILDREN under 18. They are not adult enough to vote, smoke cigarettes, or drink beer, how are they responsible enough to make such MAJOR life altering decisions?

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Steve Fredricks 3 months ago

Yes they should, our education system was not this odd in the 1950’s

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Alc Cookeville3 months ago

Yes! And ineligible for reinstatement for 100 years.

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Dennis Marchant3 months ago

yes, they are breaking the law and there should be consequences. Only Progressive Socialist believe in breaking the law without consequences.

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Pete Walton3 months ago

If there is sufficient evidence of persistent violating federal law, the schools should be warned in a "two strikes you're out and your history is your first strike". If they persist, they will not get federal funding, the government will assist parents in suing officials and teachers and federal charges should be implemented against violators. If you want to be tougher, "Strike on, you're out" It's about time that someone does something. Add it to the list of things this administration has done to improve the lives of American families at all income levels

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Terry McCall3 months ago

It they deny parental rights as outlined in the law, then yes. They have no right to take away parental choice.

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WILLIAM MCKENZIR3 months ago

That question answers itself. No sane person could possibly think otherwise.

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Christine Campbell3 months ago

Thank goodness! It's about time these schools are called to account for pushing ideological sexual and political content on to children while failing to adequately educate them in basic fundamental knowledge and life skills. Treating parents as if they have no right to guide what their children are exposed to and participate in is shameful at best, and hiding nefarious underlying agendas at worst.