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August 30, 2021

Biden Education Department opens civil rights investigations into 5 states for banning school mask mandates

The U.S. Department of Education is opening an investigation into whether prohibitions on indoor masking mandates constitute discrimination against kids with disabilities.

August 19, 2021

Amid Afghanistan chaos, Biden asks for 'legal actions' against governors who ban mask mandates

President Biden on Wednesday said he's asking Education Secretary Miguel Cardona to go after states with bans on mask mandates in schools, up to and including taking "legal action" against them, even as a crisis rages on in Afghanistan.

August 17, 2021

Special education teacher shortage impacting 48 states

The U.S. Department of Education says most states don't have enough special education teachers fill vacancies.

August 4, 2021

Biden admin is 'intimately involved' with critical race theory, former Trump official says

The Biden administration backtracked on its promotion of a critical race theory group only after officials were “caught with their hand in the cookie jar,” Russ Vought told Fox News in an exclusive interview.

July 28, 2021

Trump OMB chief Russ Vought investigating Biden admin ties to CRT group

Russ Vought, a former top Trump administration official, on Wednesday demanded the Department of Education hand over documents that could show who was involved in promoting a radical critical race theory group in official government guidance.

July 23, 2021

Top Republican pressures Cardona to purge CRT material from Education Department

Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., on Friday called on President Biden's Education Secretary to fully and publicly denounce Critical Race Theory (CRT) material after the department promoted the radical Abolitionist Teaching Network in an official school reopening handbook, which officials later said was in "error."

July 22, 2021

Biden's Dept. of Education will deny it is 'trying to transform US into a Marxist utopia': Star Parker

Star Parker, Center for Urban Renewal and Education president, speaks out against the push for critical race theory by Democrats, Biden and the Dept. of Education.

July 22, 2021

CRT group promoted by Biden admin has ties to top Education Department officials

Bettina Love, a critical race theory activist whose group was promoted by the Biden administration, has ties to two top Department of Education officials.

July 22, 2021

Republicans pile on Biden administration for promoting CRT group

Sen. Marsha Blackburn and Elise Stefanik criticized the Biden administration for promoting a pro-critical race theory group.

July 21, 2021

Abolitionist Teaching Network, far left group cited by Biden administration, has deep ties in US academia

The radical activist group that the Biden administration said it erroneously included in guidance on post-coronavirus school reopenings was already spreading its messaging in schools and universities across the country.