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A teacher equates traditional expectations for students with white supremacy, emails reveal the CDC implemented stricter COVID guidelines after threats from a teachers union, a new report shows today’s school boundaries are linked to 1930s-era housing segregation, and more.

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Proof that masking children in schools actually works is hard to find, a high school is allegedly forcing student athletes to wear ankle monitors, and a teachers union president admits relief funding is being used to recruit future dues-paying members.

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More mandates from schools give families more reason to flee government run education, a teachers union claims school choice "has a racist history," a teacher is ordered to pay a fine for quitting his job, and more.

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The teachers unions' plan to control the system backfires as states let parents decide what's best for their kids, chaos erupts at local board meetings over mask mandates, a teacher delivers a tearful speech as she resigns over 'highly politicized agendas’ being pushed on kids, and more.

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The CDC reverses course again with new guidance on masking students in schools, teachers are receiving ‘hazard pay’ just for showing up to work in classrooms, a fourth grader says her teacher instructed the class not to tell their parents about an ‘equity’ survey that included questions on gender identity, and more.

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States are mandating masks in schools despite new guidance, the Washington Post can't understand why Democrats and teachers unions don't want to give poor kids school choice, and an alarming number of Baltimore students have a grade point average below a 'D.'

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Two new polls find support for school choice is increasing after a year of pandemic closures, schools are accused of wasting the billions of dollars in COVID relief funds, and a variety of tactics are being used to claim the public's concerns about critical race theory are overblown.

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Families sue after watching their children with special needs slide backward during school closures, the Biden administration may restore race-based school discipline policies, a union-funded survey says teachers are more likely to experience job-related stress than the general population, and more.

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School board meetings get heated as parents stand up against divisive curriculum and policies, a governor needs to check his math when it comes to school funding in his state, and new data show that red states offered in-person learning at twice the rate of blue states during the pandemic.

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The latest 'Nation's Report Card' reveals schools are failing students in science education, parents want their kids to repeat the lost school year, an angry teacher lectures board members for catering to parents regarding reopening policies, and more.

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Viewers blast teachers union boss Randi Weingarten live on C-SPAN, a congressman discusses legislation that would ban federal funding to schools that teach critical race theory, advocates fight to keep a school choice program alive, and more.

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Parents are starting to fight back against critical race theory lessons and other forms of indoctrination in classrooms, a governor signs the biggest expansion of school choice in the state's history, a district brings students back for just one day of in-person learning so it can get a share of millions in reopening funds, and more.

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A bombshell report reveals the CDC colluded with the AFT teachers union on school reopening guidance, Senator Tim Scott mentions school choice in the Republican rebuttal to Biden's address to Congress, a Democrat state lawmaker tells his colleagues that he will vote against school choice when they send their kids to public school, and more.

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School districts are spending millions in COVID relief money on employees, Senator Rand Paul wants to use Title I to fund students instead of systems, and one state is on the verge of the biggest expansion of private school choice in history.

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How a DC charter school is addressing kids' mental health compared to a school district right across the border in Maryland, an update on the homeless encampments that remain on school grounds in Seattle, and why the Chicago Teachers Union is telling its members not to enter high school buildings this week.

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Corey once again has to explain the truth about education spending, a big-city school board won't meet with parents despite homeless encampments on district grounds, and even though billions of unprecedented federal dollars have been thrown at public schools, districts are still suing to block charter schools and school choice programs.

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Lockdowns lead to the unlocking of school choice programs in states across the country, Corey corrects another major newspaper for another major error about school district spending, and teachers union policies are systemically racist based on the left's own definition.

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A governor vetoes a school choice bill even though he sent his own kid to a private school, a big city teachers union sues their school district for racism, and homeschooling explodes during the pandemic.

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A governor says teachers don't need an education degree, high school students get promoted with failing GPAs, and a satirical video mocks teachers unions' endless excuses for new reasons to block schools from reopening.

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Congress passes a huge spending bill that includes $128 billion for K-12 schools, an embarrassing post in a private teachers union Facebook group finds its way to the media, and politics, not funding or science, is driving decisions on when to return to in-person learning.

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A local California teachers union president is caught on video taking  his child to in-person learning while fighting to keep public schools  closed, the COVID debate pivots in Texas schools, Education Secretary  Miguel Cardona releases a five-point plan critics call "policy theater."

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A new lawsuit appealed to the United States Supreme Court could remove the obstacles in place to leave teachers unions, a new study combines charter school academic performance with how much less funding per student they get compared to districts, and student ignorance hits TikTok.

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Vice President Kamala Harris dodges multiple interview questions about reopening schools, federal legislation aims to create school choice for every low-income family whose public schools are not open for in-person learning, and a school district in a major city may have changed the grades of 90,000 students.

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Some school districts are receiving double their annual per-student spending in federal COVID relief money, a defender of Missouri district schools gets flustered when testifying about school choice at a state hearing, a city government sues its own school board, and more.

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Joe Biden is now the President of the United States. Guess how much money he says is needed to reopen K-12 schools. Also, a flurry of new school choice legislation is popping up across the country. And Bob gets into a Twitter war with an NPR reporter. All this and more.

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Are teachers unions about to experience the second phase of their Faustian bargain to trade schools reopening for fresh new cash? Los Angeles students were told to get the vaccine when it comes around or be refused admission. And a Florida principal claims the school district discriminated against her because of her “alcohol dependency problem.” All this and more.

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Would Biden have picked a more strident education secretary if he knew the Democrats would be controlling the confirmation? Also, about half of Chicago teachers refuse to show up for work as ordered. And Corey takes apart an author who incorrectly claims the average private school spends more per student than traditional public schools. All this and more.

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Corey and Bob count down the top K-12 education stories from this year, Joe Biden makes his pick for education secretary, and much more on the last episode of the year.

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Betsy DeVos triggers a cavalcade of misleading mainstream media headlines, public schools use truancy laws to bring kids to juvenile court for the crime of not logging into class, and parents pose an awkward question that didn't get an answer: "Will private companies own students' DNA from compulsory coronavirus tests to use however they want?"

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A deep dive into one of the establishment's very favorite catchphrases: school choice is an attempt to 'defund' public schools, why the vice  president of the Michigan state school board says charter schools aren't  accountable to parents, a first-year Oregon teacher freaks out at  anti-lockdown protesters, and more.

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The in-person education flip-floppers, from epidemiologist Dr. Fauci to New York City Mayor de Blasio, a new must-see number-crunching study of Georgia's private school choice program, the conflict of interest soup in the rejection of what would have been West Virginia's first charter school, and much more.

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The NBC Today Show talks about the mental health impacts school shutdowns are having on kids, New York City Mayor de Blasio surprises parents with the news that schools will be shut down -- the next day, and a local Florida television report only has airtime for anti-charter school opinions. Plus, some exciting personal news from one of your beloved co-hosts!

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Could a Biden administration Department of Education become a field office for a national teachers union? A tidal wave of school districts announces "Hell No!" to in-person education for the foreseeable future, how one national education reporter screwed up this week, and some pontifications on Twitter versus Parler.

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What the election could mean for education, Washington state passes a referendum mandating sex education starting in kindergarten, and the California governor announces he's sending his kids back to in-person learning -- at a private school.

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The Nation’s Report Card says American 12th graders aren’t proficient at math, the Biden campaign releases a video of teachers criticizing Trump and DeVos, and educators in Brooklyn circumvent regulations by avoiding the word “school.”

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A new video blows apart the logic of residential school assignment, students thank teachers for not lying about being sick, and a governor proposes zero accountability for public school teachers.

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How school choice became part of the Amy Coney Barrett confirmation hearing, public school districts praised for diversity accused of hiding racism in how they award access to their gifted student and AP classes, and an online California charter school goes "rogue."

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What Samantha Bee omits in her mockery of school choice, how Randi Weingarten accidentally endorses school choice and a blockbuster new book on our favorite subject.

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The Buffalo school board isn’t anti-charter — there are just too many parents picking them, why a Tennessee court struck down education savings accounts, and what privacy rights do families have when teachers see into homes via online classes?

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Teachers unions oppose in-person education, while ABC News reports brick-and-mortar school closures hurt low-income students most, presidential candidate spouse Jill Biden calls for more school spending, and districts across the country promote Black Lives Matter.

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Both Trump and Biden talk reopening while only Trump mentions choice, a  new Congressional bill would earmark 10% of federal education funding for parental options and a new study shows private school attendance reduces the odds of unplanned pregnancies and criminal convictions.

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Numbers pour in on the public school exodus, Trump's RNC speech cites wealthy elites who only support school choice for themselves and Betsy DeVos helps Joe Biden remember a speech he gave about school choice in 1997.

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Tim Scott makes school choice appeal at RNC, a "1776" project presents a positive curriculum about America rather than negative, and a writer calls out alleged education equity advocates who don't seem to care about charter schools getting less per student.

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The U.S. Attorney General on school choice, districts closed for teaching charge for 'daycare' and new data prove a correlation between politics and school reopening policies.

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Ten years ago Kamala Harris explained why truancy should be a crime,  School reopening policies curiously correspond to political views, a NJ  principal apologizes for school's pro-police event that he now calls  "racist," and a social justice charter school prepares to open in DC.

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Are public schools too dangerous for teaching, but not too dangerous for daycare? Rand Paul introduces major federal school choice legislation. And what message was the AFT union giving to conservative, dues-paying teachers, when it directed a pollster to ignore their opinions?

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Teachers unions do the Safety Dance to ask for everything, Biden criticizes CDC guidelines while praising scientists, and local news stations discover a “microschool explosion.”

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Pandemic pods may revolutionize education, unions sue to keep schools closed, and Obama Education Secretary Arne Duncan says how “white liberal” policies have hurt people.

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Feds, states, unions, parents all clash over school reopening plans, Trump promotes school choice in the Rose Garden and the charter alliance flips on a controversial conference speaker.

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Corey and Bob discuss Joe Biden's pledge of loyalty to teachers unions, whether schools should be funded by the federal government if they won't even be open, an education council member's freak out over another member's 'racist behavior' for holding a black baby on his lap. And more.

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