Several appeals courts are distorting clear recent precedents against infringing parents' right to direct religious upbringing of children, challenge to West Virginia's idiosyncratic school vaccine mandate says.
On Tuesday’s “Carl Higbie FRONTLINE,” Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon warned school districts could lose federal funding for violating parents’ rights as the administration cracks down on secret gender transitions in schools.
Jefferson County, Colo., is one of the few public school systems to sue the Trump administration over demands that it revoke transgender protections or face funding cuts.
Supreme Court already requires public schools to honor parental rights before students exposed to LGBTQ "storybooks" or treated as opposite sex, lawyers for Kallie Keeler and mother tell appeals court, seeking emergency block.
Pennsylvania's largest school district partnered with a self-described "revolutionary" organization to run mandatory "liberation" workshops for students, led in part by a convicted felon with a record of antisemitic statements. The School District of Philadelphia hosted a series of symposia between 2025 and 2026 organized through a partnership between a 10th-grade history teacher and the […] The post Philadelphia schools brought a convicted felon and prison abolition group into classrooms for mandatory student workshops appeared first on American Almanac .
Pennsylvania's largest school district partnered with a self-described "revolutionary" organization to run mandatory "liberation" workshops for students, led in part by a convicted felon with a record of antisemitic statements. The School District of Philadelphia hosted a series of symposia between 2025 and 2026 organized through a partnership between a 10th-grade history teacher and the W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School for Abolition and Reconstruction, an outfit that openly describes itself as a "political education program for aspiring revolutionaries." Among the facilitators who led sessions for children as young as seventh grade: Anthony Smith, who pleaded guilty to a felony for his role in torching a police car during the riots…Open
The Department of Justice has filed a first-of-its-kind lawsuit against Kansas City, Kansas Public Schools (KCKPS), alleging the district’s transgender and gender-nonconforming student guidelines violate […] Source
“Parental rights are paramount in the operation of America’s public schools, and Kansas City, Kansas Public Schools does not know children better than their own parents,” Assistant AG Harmeet Dhillon said in a statement.
‘Parental rights are paramount in the operation of America’s public schools’
Under the rules, about 600,000 students in the city's school, which is approximately two-thirds of all students in the city's public education system, won't be allowed to use AI until they enter high school, where it will be allowed only in specific cases.
Students in the nation's largest school district return to classrooms next week.