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REPORT: Dept. Of Ed. Opens Investigation into Alleged Sexual Assault by Trans Wrestler During Match

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The Department of Education has launched an investigation after a high school wrestler from Washington State accused a transgender opponent of sexually assaulting her during a school wrestling match.

Kallie Keeler, 16, a sophomore wrestler at Rogers High School in Puyallup, Washington, claims that she was assaulted during a December 6 girls wrestling match against Emerald Ridge High School when her opponent — a teen boy who identifies as a girl — tried to push his fingers into her vagina during competition.

“I was just kind of like, what? What the heck?” a shocked Keeler exclaimed. “I didn’t really know what to do or how to handle that situation. I just wanted the match to be over.”

It has since been revealed that there have been more than a dozen complaints that this transgender wrestler is inappropriately touching female wrestlers during wrestling events, according to OutKick. (Read more from “REPORT: Dept. Of Ed. Opens Investigation into Alleged Sexual Assault by Trans Wrestler During Match” HERE)

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Supreme Court Lets Trump Admin Move Forward With Slashing Education Department Staff

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The Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration on Monday to move forward with major cuts to the Department of Education.

The majority paused a lower court order requiring the administration to reinstate nearly 1,400 employees.

In May, a Biden-appointed federal judge blocked the department’s effort to eliminate nearly half of its employees.

“Today, the Supreme Court again confirmed the obvious: the President of the United States, as the head of the Executive Branch, has the ultimate authority to make decisions about staffing levels, administrative organization, and day-to-day operations of federal agencies,” U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon said in a statement. “While today’s ruling is a significant win for students and families, it is a shame that the highest court in the land had to step in to allow President Trump to advance the reforms Americans elected him to deliver using the authorities granted to him by the U.S. Constitution.”

Justices Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented. (Read more from “Supreme Court Lets Trump Admin Move Forward With Slashing Education Department Staff” HERE)

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Rogue Judge Blocks Trump Admin From Cleaning Up Education Department

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The judicial coup from rogue district court judges continues apace, as a far-left federal judge in Massachusetts has blocked the Trump administration from being able to clean up the U.S. Department of Education after decades of waste and abuse.

President Donald Trump promised to diminish, and eventually (with congressional approval) end the department on the campaign trail in 2024. He was elected by the American people in part to do just that — a goal of many for years.

To start fulfilling this, on March 11, Education Secretary Linda McMahon initiated a reduction-in-force (RIF), laying off about 50 percent of department staff, and on March 20, Trump signed an executive order directing McMahon “to the maximum extent appropriate and permitted by law, take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure of the Department of Education.”

Numerous left-wing states, special interests, unions, and school districts — many of which had become comfortable relying on the department as a slush fund for their bad practices — promptly sued the department.

On Thursday, unelected and unaccountable U.S. District Judge Myong J. Joun, an appointee of former President Joe Biden who is already an active participant in the coup via another case, issued an injunction where he appears to believe he has the authority to govern the day-to-day functions of the department. (Read more from “Rogue Judge Blocks Trump Admin From Cleaning Up Education Department” HERE)

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Trump Admin Investigates Chicago Public Schools For Racial Discrimination

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The U.S. Department of Education has launched an investigation into Chicago Public Schools (CPS) for alleged racial discrimination in its “Black Student Success Plan,” which reportedly only focuses on the academic achievement of black students.

The Title VI investigation comes after education advocacy organization Defending Education filed a complaint with the department’s Office for Civil Rights in February. The Education Department’s press release states that the “Black Student Success Plan” deals with “remedial measures only for black students, despite acknowledging that Chicago students of all races struggle academically.”

“Chicago Public Schools have a record of academic failure, leaving students from all backgrounds and races struggling and ill-prepared to meet the challenges and enjoy the rewards of contemporary American life,” Craig Trainor, acting assistant secretary for civil rights, said. “Rather than address its record honestly, CPS seeks to allocate additional resources to favored students on the basis of race. The Trump-McMahon Department of Education will not allow federal funds, provided for the benefit of all students, to be used in this pernicious and unlawful manner.”

“To CPS, I say this: Every American student deserves access to a quality education, and the Trump Administration will fight tirelessly to uphold that ideal and ensure all students are treated equally under law,” he added. (Read more from “Trump Admin Investigates Chicago Public Schools For Racial Discrimination” HERE)

Education Department Opens Investigation Into University With ‘Deep Involvements With Chinese Entities’

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The Department of Education (ED) opened an investigation into the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) Friday over its reported ties to Chinese sources, the Daily Caller News Foundation has learned.

ED claims the university has failed to report “hundreds of millions of dollars” it received from foreign government over a span of several years, prompting the department to initiate a records request, the DCNF was told. The foreign funding sparks concerns the school has “deep involvements with Chinese entities” and may be sharing information about research and “important technologies.”

The Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in 2023 found “grave research security concerns” with UC Berkeley due to the school’s partnership with the CCP-controlled Tsinghua University and the Shenzhen government. (Read more from “Education Department Opens Investigation Into University With ‘Deep Involvements With Chinese Entities'” HERE)

Education Department Funded ‘Remixing Textbooks’ To Advance Pseudo-Science And Gender Theory

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It’s no secret that the Biden administration did everything it could to use the Department of Education to advance its left-wing worldview, but with the agency’s (hopefully) impending dissolution, it’s worth reviewing the exact flavor of evil it’s been involved with sowing.

Open the Books has released a snapshot of a forthcoming, more exhaustive report on waste, fraud, and abuse from the Department of Education. The millions spent on indoctrinating children show that the department has not just been a place where bureaucrats dictate education to states from an ivory tower or collude with teachers unions to the detriment of American students and families, but more malevolently, it’s been a money laundering scheme for Democrats to fund far-left social theories to fundamentally destroy American family and civil life.

“Everyone understands that essential protections for all students must be preserved somewhere in the federal purview,” Open the Books CEO John Hart told The Federalist. “Once we get past that conversation, it hardly takes five minutes to find examples of tax dollars spent to inject progressive dogma into the classroom. It’s not limited to universities; we find it at public secondary schools as well. It’s a misuse of public funds intended to have lasting impact on a generation of students.” . . .

From 2021 through 2024, the Department of Education awarded $1.3 million to fund a project at Framingham State University called “Remixing Textbooks Through an Equity-Focused Lens” (ROTEL).

The project covered a wide swathe of pseudo-science and indoctrination, and ultimately published the information in open-source textbooks. (Read more from “Education Department Funded ‘Remixing Textbooks’ To Advance Pseudo-Science And Gender Theory” HERE)

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Trump Expected To Sign Order Dismantling Education Department

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President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order on Thursday dismantling the Department of Education, a long-awaited move that would fulfill a key promise he made on the campaign trail.

A summary of the order shows that it directs Education Secretary Linda McMahon to take “all necessary steps to facilitate the closure of the Department of Education and return education authority to the States.”

However, the order also directs the “uninterrupted delivery of services, programs, and benefits on which Americans rely,” according to the summary.

McMahon was only confirmed as Education Secretary earlier this month, but Trump previously said he hoped she would put herself “out of a job.”

A number of Republican governors, advocates for parental rights in education, and others are expected to be at the signing on Thursday. (Read more from “Trump Expected To Sign Order Dismantling Education Department” HERE)

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Trump Expected to Sign Executive Order Abolishing the Department of Education: Report

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President Trump is set to sign an executive order to eradicate the Department of Education as early as Thursday, according to a report.

Trump will reportedly use his executive powers to direct Education Secretary Linda McMahon to “take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure of the Education Department” based on “the maximum extent appropriate and permitted by law,” according to the Wall Street Journal, which viewed the drafted order.

“The experiment of controlling American education through Federal programs and dollars–and the unaccountable bureaucrats those programs and dollars support–has failed our children, our teachers, and our families,” the draft order, which was labeled as “pre-decisional,” reads.

The order – which supports the president’s pledge to have the federal agency shuttered – has been in the works since Trump’s transition, the outlet reported. . .

McMahon, 76, who was confirmed along party lines Monday, cited the commander in chief’s upcoming move in an email to staffers mere hours after she was approved to head the department, the outlet reported, saying she would “send education back to the states.” (Read more from “Trump Expected to Sign Executive Order Abolishing the Department of Education: Report” HERE)

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Education Department Slashes $600 Million In Funding For ‘Social Justice Activism’ Teacher Training

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The U.S. Department of Education announced Monday it cut over $600 million in grants spent on training teachers in “social justice activism,” critical race theory, and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) ideology.

The grants were used to fund institutions and nonprofits involved in training teachers on concepts like “anti-racism” and claims about white privilege and white supremacy. The grants also helped fund discriminatory staff recruiting strategies that targeted candidates based on their race.

“It’s hard to overstate how radical these teacher trainings are — we are talking about forcing teachers to talk about their race at work, asking educators to ‘take personal and institutional responsibility for systemic inequities,’ promoting abolitionist teaching practices and defining equity as equal outcomes,” Erika Sanzi, director of outreach for Parents Defending Education, said in a press release. “And not for nothing but all we see are declining outcomes for the students that these trainings purport to help most.”

The Department of Education noted several of the trainings — meant for future classroom teachers — the grants funded, including “Requiring practitioners to take personal and institutional responsibility for systemic inequities (e.g., racism) and critically reassess their own practices,” and “Receiving professional development workshops and equity training on topics such as ‘Building Cultural Competence,’ ‘Dismantling Racial Bias’ and ‘Centering Equity in the Classroom.’” (Read more from “Education Department Slashes $600 Million In Funding For ‘Social Justice Activism’ Teacher Training” HERE)

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Why ‘Education Experience’ Makes An Education Secretary Worse

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President Trump’s education secretary nominee Linda McMahon began her confirmation hearings the morning of Feb. 13. One of the chief attacks against her is bemoaning “a thin resume on education,” as industry lobbying outfit Education Week puts it.

“McMahon’s background in education is limited. She served for about one year on Connecticut’s State Board of Education,” says government-funded mouthpiece NPR. The government-funded New York Times notes “critics” highlighting “a relative lack of experience in education.”

“Unlike President Joe Biden’s education secretary, McMahon has little experience working in schools,” USA Today bleats. Formerly government-funded Politico says she “has minimal education experience.” . . .

Homeschool parents are better teachers than the average person with a teaching degree. Now, it shouldn’t make any sense that people with zero experience or preparation for a field significantly outperform people with experience and preparation. That is not true of just about any endeavor — except education.

Almost everywhere, homeschool parents need no college or even high school degree. They need to take no classroom management or even parenting classes. They need to demonstrate no knowledge whatsoever. Despite this, the children educated by homeschool parents constantly outperform the children educated by state-certified teachers — and on just about every measure, not just academically. (Read more from “Why ‘Education Experience’ Makes An Education Secretary Worse” HERE)