Author: Breccan F. Thies

The Democrats’ 2024 election platform claims that school choice initiatives use tax dollars to “discriminate” despite the fact that school choice proponents say expanding options helps children escape failing schools. Democratic Party members ratified their 2024 platform on Monday in Chicago, where their nominating convention for president is taking place. The education portions of the…

EXCLUSIVE — The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, the flagship school of the state’s university system, has been hit with civil rights complaints spanning 42 scholarships that are only available to preferred races and sexes. The complaint, obtained by the Washington Examiner and sent to the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, was made…

EXCLUSIVE — Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) is calling for an investigation into colleges and universities in the United States that are using federal tax dollars to push diversity, equity, and inclusion ideologies on their campuses. “DEI on college campuses is not only subsidized by families paying higher tuition, but also by taxpayers who fund a…

As the Biden administration’s controversial Title IX rules go into effect Thursday, many due process protections afforded under the Trump era rules are being retracted and returning to what critics called the “kangaroo courts” of the Obama years. President Joe Biden’s rules have been blocked by federal judges across the country, pausing their implementation in…

Three Senate Democrats levied concerns about the Department of Education’s new centralized platform for servicing federal student loans in a letter on Monday to Education Secretary Miguel Cardona. Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Ron Wyden (D-OR), and Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) sent the letter questioning the transparency of the Unified Servicing and Data Solution system, which…

Gender ideology activists expect Vice President Kamala Harris to expand on the Biden administration‘s child gender transition agenda if elected president in November. After President Joe Biden dropped out of the presidential race on Sunday, gay and transgender activist groups and outlets quickly endorsed Harris for president. Many of the groups touted Harris’s past as…

The Secret Service’s failures during the near assassination of former President Donald Trump have once again shone the spotlight on so-called DEI hiring, with Director Kimberly Cheatle being accused of being a box-ticking diversity hire. This Washington Examiner series, Alphabet Soup, will take a closer look at whether the DEI chickens have come home to…

The country’s top human resources group is cutting “equity” out of its diversity, equity, and inclusion framework, the group announced last week, amid national backlash to the ideology. The Society for Human Resource Management, the country’s leading professional association of HR staff, said it would turn its focus to the diversity and inclusion aspects of…

EXCLUSIVE — Rep. Burgess Owens, R-UT, launched a new House caucus on Wednesday meant to combat diversity, equity, and inclusion ideology in education. Owens, chairman of the House Education and Workforce Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Development, announced the “Merit Caucus” on Wednesday morning, the Washington Examiner learned exclusively, saying the Left has a…

A federal judge in Kansas has blocked the Department of Education’s Title IX rewrite in four more states, continuing a pattern of successive losses for the Biden administration on the controversial regulatory overhaul. U.S. District Court Judge John W. Broomes issued an injunction on Tuesday to the Biden administration’s new Title IX rules, which change…