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The head of South Carolina ‘s Department of Education is on the receiving-end of criticism after local media highlighted concerns about potential First Amendment violations over an email to employees. The message was sent prior to an upcoming Q-and-A meeting, and asked employees planning to attend to state their goals for their students in a […]

The Department of Education has launched a federal civil rights investigation into Harvard University over its legacy admissions practices, weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against Harvard and barred the consideration of race in college admissions. A spokesperson for the Department of Education confirmed to the Washington Examiner on Tuesday that the department had

The Kentucky Board of Nursing mandated nurses to take an ” implicit bias ” course to “recognize the history of racism in healthcare” and threatened “discipline” for failure to do so. The ultimatum to complete the “mandatory continuing education” training, which was developed by the Kentucky Nurses Association , forced nurses to complete the training

The Virginia Department of Education honored parental rights in new model policies on how schools should respond to children who claim to identify as transgender . The new policies, which must be adopted by all of Virginia’s public school districts, prohibit schools and school staff from accommodating a student’s request to use a different name

Sens. Roger Marshall (R-KS) and Bill Cassidy (R-LA) sent a letter on Tuesday to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Mandy Cohen regarding her agency’s recent guidance on so-called “chestfeeding.” The two senators in leadership positions on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee referenced the recent health equity guidance from the CDC

The Supreme Court ‘s ruling that allowed a Christian website designer to decline requests to create same-sex wedding websites could have sweeping implications in other legal disputes involving creative occupations, according to attorneys who argued in the case of 303 Creative v. Elenis . Attorneys for the conservative legal firm Alliance Defending Freedom asked two

Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) warned that national security was being undermined by woke military policies, including the COVID-19 vaccine mandate, as he announced his “Mission First” proposal for the Pentagon . “Our mantra on Jan. 20, 2025, as commander in chief will be very simple: mission first, accomplish the mission,” DeSantis told a crowd Tuesday

Republicans on the House Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Energy Policy, and Regulatory Affairs held a hearing Tuesday on the Department of Energy’s proposed appliance efficiency standards aimed at regulating home kitchen appliances, arguing that the efforts will be costly and burdensome. The hearing comes after the DOE unveiled in February its new “Energy Policy and