Category: school boards

‘Fight Like Hell With a Smile on Our Face:’ CRT Debate Spurs Parents to Run for School Boards

As parents across the nation fight to have a say in their children’s public education, more are taking things into their own hands: running for local school boards. Sean Kaufman in Woodstock, Georgia, is one of them. And his journey began with a school assignment on the American dream. Before that, he never felt any…


‘Fight Like Hell With a Smile on Our Faces:’ CRT Debate Spurs Parents to Run for School Boards

As parents across the nation fight to have a say in their children’s public education, more are taking things into their own hands: running for local school boards. Sean Kaufman in Woodstock, Georgia, is one of them. And his journey began with a school assignment on the American dream. Before that, he never felt any…


Group’s Audit of Florida School District Reveals Officials Often ‘Don’t Know’ Own Curriculum

By failing to properly follow state law, its own founding charter, and sponsoring the school district’s stated policy, a Central Florida high school had to deny about 40 students college credits they had worked a semester to earn. What happened in Lake Wales Charter Schools isn’t evidence of any grand scheme by local administrators to…


Parents’ Rights Movement Spurs New Age of Advocacy in Local School Board Races

Two years ago, Ryan Girdusky was a New York-based reporter for conservative news sites, Tiffany Justice was a former Florida school board member and mother of four school-aged children, and Steve Maxwell was focused on growing his agricultural software business across the Southeast. None had experience in orchestrating political advocacy, recruiting candidates to run for…


Schools Intentionally Dumbing Down Children for Control as Education Becomes Politicized: Alex Newman

Education has come front and center in the United States, where parents are allegedly being targeted through counterterrorism technologies through a request from the school boards. At the same time, the Chinese regime is promoting critical race theory through its state-run media, right here in the United States—raising big questions on why this is happening….


Protests | School’s Out with Sam Sorbo

Recent events at local school board meetings have sparked a great deal of media attention and controversy, including involvement at the highest levels of our government and law enforcement system. What are parents doing to incur the ire of the federal government? Tune in to find out. – Follow EpochTV on social media: Facebook: www.facebook.com/EpochTVus…


Parents Go After Union Stranglehold on School Boards

Commentary Parents who never imagined running for office battled to win seats on local school boards last week; they won some, but lost many. Their fiercest opponents were the teachers unions. The media portrayed these school board races as culture wars, but more than anything they were struggles by parents to wrest control of the…


School Board Group Contacted Biden Administration Before Letter Comparing Parents to Domestic Terrorists

The national school board group that sparked a nationwide backlash with a letter comparing parents to domestic terrorists was in contact with Biden administration officials before releasing the letter late last month, newly released emails show. The National School Boards Association (NSBA) on Sept. 29 urged President Joe Biden to take action to stop what…


The Potential Mistake of Alienating Suburban Parents

Commentary The Democrats may be learning the hard way that it’s a mistake to alienate suburban parents. In particular, that it’s a mistake to say that parents shouldn’t be able to tell schools what to teach their children. Or to brand them as participants in “domestic terrorism” when they vocally protest the teaching of critical…


School Board Meetings Show Only That Freedom Is Messy

Commentary PITTSBURGH—Twenty years ago, Paul Carson said he never would have hesitated to speak out at a school board meeting about any issue affecting his children’s education. But one day, that changed. “I just don’t do it,” Carson told me. A physician who practices medicine in an urban Pittsburgh hospital, Carson said it has nothing…