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July 21, 2021

Pro-CRT group promoted by Biden admin locks Twitter account following Fox News report

The Abolitionist Teaching Network protected its Twitter account after a Fox News report revealed its connection to the Biden administration.

July 21, 2021

GOP AG celebrates Biden admin's reversal on critical race theory handbook as 'big win for parents'

The Biden administration claimed that it was an "error" when the Department of Education linked to a radical activist group’s handbook that pushes critical race theory in schools, distancing itself from the organization to the relief of South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson.

July 21, 2021

Lawrence Jones knocks Biden admin pointing schools to racial group advocating critical race theory

"Fox & Friends" reporter Lawrence Jones knocked the Biden Administration's federal school guidance promoting an activist group known as the "Abolitionist Teaching Network." A Fox News investigation uncovered website links to the groups’ materials in the Department of Education’s COVID-19 reopening handbook.

July 21, 2021

'It was an error' to promote CRT group, Biden admin says following Fox News report

The Biden administration said "it was an error" to promote a radical group that advocated for educators to "disrupt Whiteness and other forms of oppression."

July 21, 2021

Biden admin promotes radical group pushing critical race theory in schools

The Department of Education's handbook helping schools reopen linked to the Abolitionist Teaching Network, a radical group that pushes critical race theory tenets.

July 14, 2021

Biden nominee claims Trump-era Title IX regs protecting due process allow students to 'rape with impunity'

President Biden's pick to head the civil rights division under the Department of Education (DOE) testified Tuesday that she would uphold a Trump-era Title IX regulation even though she claimed it lets students "rape and sexually harass students with impunity."

June 24, 2021

GOP rep chastises Cardona for 1619 Project-inspired grant proposal: 'I would encourage you to live by the law'

Rep. Tim Walberg, R-Mich., gave Education Secretary Miguel Cardona a stern warning that a proposal of his for American history and civics education runs afoul of federal law by seeking to influence the content of school curriculum.

June 16, 2021

Rep. Virginia Foxx: How to fight critical race theory, other dubious ideologies and end student indoctrination

Indoctrination. It’s an apt description of the left’s overhaul of civics and history education in American schools.

May 23, 2021

Teachers, unions and education officials push 'woke,' leftist policies in schools across US

Many teachers and teachers unions in recent years have pushed left-leaning policies both in schools and in the public sphere – a phenomenon that's been highlighted by a more intense focus on schools and unions amid the coronavirus pandemic and battles over how to teach about race in schools.

May 18, 2021

Ruthless podcast rips Politico's 'offensive' report on Biden, teachers unions reopening schools: 'Shameless'

The co-hosts of the conservative podcast "Ruthless" accused Politico of “revisionist history” over its report about the so-called “campaign” being launched by the Biden administration and teachers unions to reopen schools full time.