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George Zimmerman stated on July 11, 2023 in an interview with the Daily Athenaeum “The percentage of students that are going to college (in West Virginia) has been declining for five years.” E. Gordon Gee stated on August 18, 2023 in an interview with the Daily Athenaeum Foreign languages are “not a high priority” nationally West Virginia University Faculty Senate stated on September 9, 2023 in a no-confidence resolution During E. Gordon Gee's presidency of West Virginia University, "student enrollments have steadily decreased." Facebook posts stated on September 25, 2023 in a video A video shows children disappearing from inside a school bus. Randi Weingarten stated on September 20, 2023 in an X post "Texas teacher fired for reading Diary of Anne Frank to class.” Unleash Prosperity Now stated on August 13, 2023 in a political ad “Gov. Roy Cooper is blocking a pioneering school choice bill that would give thousands of low-income parents the funds to allow their kids to get a high-quality education.” Joe Biden stated on September 14, 2023 in a speech “I taught at the University of Pennsylvania for four years.” Ron DeSantis stated on August 4, 2023 in a town hall “We’ve eliminated critical race theory in our K through 12 schools.” Kamala Harris stated on July 21, 2023 in in a speech in Jacksonville, Florida "Some states have “tried to ban teaching Latino and Hispanic history.” Facebook posts stated on July 19, 2023 in a video shared on Facebook. Video shows a van “‘Queer testing’ kids without parental approval … (that) involves clothing removal.” Kamala Harris stated on July 20, 2023 in a speech to the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Florida “decided middle school students will be taught that enslaved people benefited from slavery.” Facebook posts stated on July 19, 2023 in a Facebook reel Photos show children wearing satanic clothing and participating in a satanic club. Fox News Channel stated on July 5, 2023 in a chyron Gender Queer on NEA Summer Reading List for Kids. Ron DeSantis stated on June 29, 2023 in a tweet Donald Trump is an “affirmative action advocate.” Tim Scott stated on June 18, 2023 in a TV interview “Think about parents who show up at school board meetings. By this DOJ, they’re called domestic terrorists.” Nikki Haley stated on June 4, 2023 in a CNN town hall Having "biological boys … in their locker rooms” is a reason why “a third of our teenage girls seriously contemplated suicide last year." Instagram posts stated on May 22, 2023 in a post Video shows boxes of books removed from a middle school library that were “banned by the DeSantis regime in Florida.” Ron DeSantis stated on May 24, 2023 in a Twitter Spaces event “There's not been a single book banned in the state of Florida.” Francis Suarez stated on May 21, 2023 in a TV interview “Just last year,” Miami-Dade Public Schools “had over 14,000 new children, 10,000 of which came from four countries of Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela and Haiti.” Kathy Hochul stated on May 9, 2023 in a news conference The New York state budget covers 96% of eligible preschoolers Load more
George Zimmerman stated on July 11, 2023 in an interview with the Daily Athenaeum “The percentage of students that are going to college (in West Virginia) has been declining for five years.”
E. Gordon Gee stated on August 18, 2023 in an interview with the Daily Athenaeum Foreign languages are “not a high priority” nationally
West Virginia University Faculty Senate stated on September 9, 2023 in a no-confidence resolution During E. Gordon Gee's presidency of West Virginia University, "student enrollments have steadily decreased."
Facebook posts stated on September 25, 2023 in a video A video shows children disappearing from inside a school bus.
Randi Weingarten stated on September 20, 2023 in an X post "Texas teacher fired for reading Diary of Anne Frank to class.”
Unleash Prosperity Now stated on August 13, 2023 in a political ad “Gov. Roy Cooper is blocking a pioneering school choice bill that would give thousands of low-income parents the funds to allow their kids to get a high-quality education.”
Joe Biden stated on September 14, 2023 in a speech “I taught at the University of Pennsylvania for four years.”
Ron DeSantis stated on August 4, 2023 in a town hall “We’ve eliminated critical race theory in our K through 12 schools.”
Kamala Harris stated on July 21, 2023 in in a speech in Jacksonville, Florida "Some states have “tried to ban teaching Latino and Hispanic history.”
Facebook posts stated on July 19, 2023 in a video shared on Facebook. Video shows a van “‘Queer testing’ kids without parental approval … (that) involves clothing removal.”
Kamala Harris stated on July 20, 2023 in a speech to the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Florida “decided middle school students will be taught that enslaved people benefited from slavery.”
Facebook posts stated on July 19, 2023 in a Facebook reel Photos show children wearing satanic clothing and participating in a satanic club.
Fox News Channel stated on July 5, 2023 in a chyron Gender Queer on NEA Summer Reading List for Kids.
Tim Scott stated on June 18, 2023 in a TV interview “Think about parents who show up at school board meetings. By this DOJ, they’re called domestic terrorists.”
Nikki Haley stated on June 4, 2023 in a CNN town hall Having "biological boys … in their locker rooms” is a reason why “a third of our teenage girls seriously contemplated suicide last year."
Instagram posts stated on May 22, 2023 in a post Video shows boxes of books removed from a middle school library that were “banned by the DeSantis regime in Florida.”
Ron DeSantis stated on May 24, 2023 in a Twitter Spaces event “There's not been a single book banned in the state of Florida.”
Francis Suarez stated on May 21, 2023 in a TV interview “Just last year,” Miami-Dade Public Schools “had over 14,000 new children, 10,000 of which came from four countries of Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela and Haiti.”
Kathy Hochul stated on May 9, 2023 in a news conference The New York state budget covers 96% of eligible preschoolers
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