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Over the last decade I’ve helped several hundred families fight to get better support for their children. Right now the special education needs system is not working for too many children, too many parents and too many schools. The Government has tried to fix things but I fear that they have left parents with more questions than answers. Their changes will leave young people to the lottery of the system and place too much burden on teachers. We need to focus on real support for those who need it and start asking why the number of children with special education needs has increased so much in recent years.

Over the last decade I’ve helped several hundred families fight to get better support for their children. Right now the special education needs system is not working for too many children, too many parents and too many schools. The Government has tried to fix things but I fear that they have left parents with more questions than answers. Their changes will leave young people to the lottery of the system and place too much burden on teachers. We need to focus on real support for those who need it and start asking why the number of children with special education needs has increased so much in recent years.

Suella Braverman

22,226 views • 6 months ago

More than 71,000+ students from across Punjab appeared for the admission test for 65 Nawaz Sharif Schools of Eminence. This overwhelming response reflects the growing trust of parents in Punjab’s public education system. We remain committed to a transparent, merit-based admissions process, ensuring that every deserving child in Punjab has access to free of cost quality education, world-class learning opportunities, and the foundation for a brighter future in these schools. With 300 Nawaz Sharif Schools of Eminence being established across Punjab, an educational revolution is taking shape.

More than 71,000+ students from across Punjab appeared for the admission test for 65 Nawaz Sharif Schools of Eminence. This overwhelming response reflects the growing trust of parents in Punjab’s public education system. We remain committed to a transparent, merit-based admissions process, ensuring that every deserving child in Punjab has access to free of cost quality education, world-class learning opportunities, and the foundation for a brighter future in these schools. With 300 Nawaz Sharif Schools of Eminence being established across Punjab, an educational revolution is taking shape.

Maryam Nawaz Sharif

832,942 views • 1 month ago

#WATCH | Bengaluru: On circular banning use of school grounds for non-educational activities, Karnataka Education Minister Madhu Bangarappa says, "Parents and children have complained about their ideological mentality, so we had to make an order in the interest of children. Anything not good for children will not be allowed in our schools..."

#WATCH | Bengaluru: On circular banning use of school grounds for non-educational activities, Karnataka Education Minister Madhu Bangarappa says, "Parents and children have complained about their ideological mentality, so we had to make an order in the interest of children. Anything not good for children will not be allowed in our schools..."

ANI

119,013 views • 10 months ago

Our students shouldn't be terrified of just walking into their schools. HB836 makes it clear that no child will be denied a free public education because of citizenship status. Public schools exist to educate our children, not to police our families. Schools should be safe places where kids can focus on learning, growing, and building their futures, not places where families fear deportation. Together we are guaranteeing every child in Virginia the right to an education. 📚

Our students shouldn't be terrified of just walking into their schools. HB836 makes it clear that no child will be denied a free public education because of citizenship status. Public schools exist to educate our children, not to police our families. Schools should be safe places where kids can focus on learning, growing, and building their futures, not places where families fear deportation. Together we are guaranteeing every child in Virginia the right to an education. 📚

Sam Rasoul 🍉

14,701 views • 5 months ago

HUGE‼️ Trumps Plan to Give Parents the Power to FIRE School Principals and Teachers, Bring PRAYER back to the Classroom, Train Children for Meaningful Jobs — and ENDING the Department of Education 🙌 “The United States spends more money on education than any other country in the world and yet, we get the worst outcome. We’re at the bottom of every list…> Our schools must be totally refocused to prepare our children to succeed in the world of work, life, and to keep our country strong, so they can grown up to be happy prosperous & independent citizens. We owe our children great schools that lead to great jobs..> HERE ARE 10 KEY IDEAS TO CREATE GREAT SCHOOLS: 1. Respect the rights of parents to control the education of their children. 2. Empower parents & local school boards to hire & reward great principals/teachers & Fire the bad ones. 3. Ensure our classrooms are focused arithmetic (reading, writing, math, etc) and not political indoctrination. 4. Teach students to love their country, not to hate their country 5. Bring back PRAYER in schools 🙌🙏 6. Achieve schools that are safe, secure, & drug free— with immediate expulsion of a student that harms a teacher or another student 7. Give all parents the right to choose another school — School Choice 8. Ensure students have access to project based learning experiences in the classroom to train them for meaningful work outside the classroom. 9. Strive to give all students access to internships & work experiences to set them on a path to their first job “I want them to be more successful than Trump.… I will be the happiest person in the world.” ❤️❤️❤️ 10. Ensure all schools provide excellent jobs and career counseling, so high school & college students can get a head start on jobs & careers best suited for their God-given talents PLUS+ “I will be closing up the Department of Education, Washington DC, and will send all education BACK TO THE STATES”

HUGE‼️ Trumps Plan to Give Parents the Power to FIRE School Principals and Teachers, Bring PRAYER back to the Classroom, Train Children for Meaningful Jobs — and ENDING the Department of Education 🙌 “The United States spends more money on education than any other country in the world and yet, we get the worst outcome. We’re at the bottom of every list…> Our schools must be totally refocused to prepare our children to succeed in the world of work, life, and to keep our country strong, so they can grown up to be happy prosperous & independent citizens. We owe our children great schools that lead to great jobs..> HERE ARE 10 KEY IDEAS TO CREATE GREAT SCHOOLS: 1. Respect the rights of parents to control the education of their children. 2. Empower parents & local school boards to hire & reward great principals/teachers & Fire the bad ones. 3. Ensure our classrooms are focused arithmetic (reading, writing, math, etc) and not political indoctrination. 4. Teach students to love their country, not to hate their country 5. Bring back PRAYER in schools 🙌🙏 6. Achieve schools that are safe, secure, & drug free— with immediate expulsion of a student that harms a teacher or another student 7. Give all parents the right to choose another school — School Choice 8. Ensure students have access to project based learning experiences in the classroom to train them for meaningful work outside the classroom. 9. Strive to give all students access to internships & work experiences to set them on a path to their first job “I want them to be more successful than Trump.… I will be the happiest person in the world.” ❤️❤️❤️ 10. Ensure all schools provide excellent jobs and career counseling, so high school & college students can get a head start on jobs & careers best suited for their God-given talents PLUS+ “I will be closing up the Department of Education, Washington DC, and will send all education BACK TO THE STATES”

MJTruthUltra

1,750,127 views • 1 year ago

Why is there a push to close Chicago Public Schools on May 1? According to the Illinois State Board of Education, only 1 in 3 CPS elementary students are proficient in reading and only 1 in 5 are proficient in math. Our kids need more time in the classroom, not less, yet Chicago parents are being asked for their kids to lose another day of school on May 1st for a political Day of Action. Parents and kids rely on schools for learning and consistency. Closing schools will send parents scrambling for babysitters or losing wages to stay home to care for their kids. For some kids, schools are where they get their meals and are the safest place they’ll be that day. As a CPS mom, I have skin in the game and expect my son to be in school where he belongs on May 1st. Keep Chicago’s students in the classroom, parents at work, and focus on the city’s test scores, not its politics. #chicago

Why is there a push to close Chicago Public Schools on May 1? According to the Illinois State Board of Education, only 1 in 3 CPS elementary students are proficient in reading and only 1 in 5 are proficient in math. Our kids need more time in the classroom, not less, yet Chicago parents are being asked for their kids to lose another day of school on May 1st for a political Day of Action. Parents and kids rely on schools for learning and consistency. Closing schools will send parents scrambling for babysitters or losing wages to stay home to care for their kids. For some kids, schools are where they get their meals and are the safest place they’ll be that day. As a CPS mom, I have skin in the game and expect my son to be in school where he belongs on May 1st. Keep Chicago’s students in the classroom, parents at work, and focus on the city’s test scores, not its politics. #chicago

Susana A. Mendoza ☮️

39,847 views • 5 months ago

Meet Nakia Hardy, the incoming Superintendent for Franklin County Schools in North Carolina. Nakia went on a podcast and promoted DEI polices which include “understanding implicit bias, equitable practices, and culturally responsive pedagogy." She says she focused on pushing race/gender-based curriculum on children to create an "inclusive" environment. This woman will be in charge of your children's education. Parents, BEWARE h/t Stephen Horn

Meet Nakia Hardy, the incoming Superintendent for Franklin County Schools in North Carolina. Nakia went on a podcast and promoted DEI polices which include “understanding implicit bias, equitable practices, and culturally responsive pedagogy." She says she focused on pushing race/gender-based curriculum on children to create an "inclusive" environment. This woman will be in charge of your children's education. Parents, BEWARE h/t Stephen Horn

Libs of TikTok

313,267 views • 8 months ago

The DOJ signed new interagency agreements focused on ‘Student Privacy’ Schools will be forced to allow parents to opt their kids out of curriculum pushing political agendas and the LGBTQ agenda - The Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment requires parental consent or opt-out for surveys and evaluations on sensitive topics like sex, family relationships, religion, political beliefs, mental health and gives parents rights to inspect related materials - The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act gives parents the right to inspect and review their child’s education records, request corrections and control disclosure of personally identifiable information Schools receiving federal funds must generally provide access and notify parents of rights annually States like California and Kansas have major lawsuits for transitioning kids and hiding it from their parents, even when the parents request the info Many states are changing kids genders on forms and transitioning kids too We need both this legislation and these school staff should face criminal punishments in my opinion

The DOJ signed new interagency agreements focused on ‘Student Privacy’ Schools will be forced to allow parents to opt their kids out of curriculum pushing political agendas and the LGBTQ agenda - The Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment requires parental consent or opt-out for surveys and evaluations on sensitive topics like sex, family relationships, religion, political beliefs, mental health and gives parents rights to inspect related materials - The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act gives parents the right to inspect and review their child’s education records, request corrections and control disclosure of personally identifiable information Schools receiving federal funds must generally provide access and notify parents of rights annually States like California and Kansas have major lawsuits for transitioning kids and hiding it from their parents, even when the parents request the info Many states are changing kids genders on forms and transitioning kids too We need both this legislation and these school staff should face criminal punishments in my opinion

Wall Street Apes

25,049 views • 2 months ago

It has been reported that at-home learning enrolments in Queensland have increased by 229% in the past five years. Today there are 11,250 students being homeschooled in the state. Parents are pulling their kids from Queensland schools in unprecedented numbers, and here’s why: · Bullying, which is no longer confined to the playground but entering every victim’s home via social media · Poor academic records and performance, and · Woke, activist teachers and school curricula. The nation’s largest homeschool education provider said parents consistently say they’re dismayed at what’s being taught – and what’s not being taught – in Queensland schools. These parents deserve a pat on the back for taking a keen interest in their kids’ education and shielding them from the indoctrination taking place in our schools. Students must be educated, not indoctrinated. Students should be taught how to think, not what to think. They shouldn’t be forced to recite acknowledgements of country, touching their hands to the ground. They shouldn’t be taken out of school to attend protests. Any teacher that indoctrinates children should be sacked and never permitted to teach in Australia again. They can always get a job with a Greens senator who will happily indulge their woke extremism and hatred of Australia. One Nation is taking an education policy to the Queensland state election that will stop this indoctrination of innocent children. We’ll focus on the basics to improve literacy and numeracy. We’ll reward teachers whose classes achieve good academic results. And we’ll put parents at the centre of education decision-making, ensuring they have a meaningful say in what their kids are taught.

It has been reported that at-home learning enrolments in Queensland have increased by 229% in the past five years. Today there are 11,250 students being homeschooled in the state. Parents are pulling their kids from Queensland schools in unprecedented numbers, and here’s why: · Bullying, which is no longer confined to the playground but entering every victim’s home via social media · Poor academic records and performance, and · Woke, activist teachers and school curricula. The nation’s largest homeschool education provider said parents consistently say they’re dismayed at what’s being taught – and what’s not being taught – in Queensland schools. These parents deserve a pat on the back for taking a keen interest in their kids’ education and shielding them from the indoctrination taking place in our schools. Students must be educated, not indoctrinated. Students should be taught how to think, not what to think. They shouldn’t be forced to recite acknowledgements of country, touching their hands to the ground. They shouldn’t be taken out of school to attend protests. Any teacher that indoctrinates children should be sacked and never permitted to teach in Australia again. They can always get a job with a Greens senator who will happily indulge their woke extremism and hatred of Australia. One Nation is taking an education policy to the Queensland state election that will stop this indoctrination of innocent children. We’ll focus on the basics to improve literacy and numeracy. We’ll reward teachers whose classes achieve good academic results. And we’ll put parents at the centre of education decision-making, ensuring they have a meaningful say in what their kids are taught.

Pauline Hanson 🇦🇺

105,384 views • 2 years ago

Today I announced support for HB 1285, which will further cement Florida as the best state in the nation for education. Some of the reforms it institutes include: - Simplifying the process to get failing schools turned around so no child is stuck in a poor-performing school, - Incentivizing school districts to grow their roster of Purple Star Schools to support military families, and - Streamlining the content objection process for parents and preventing activists from making bad-faith objections More to come on this legislation tomorrow. Florida is #1 in education!

Today I announced support for HB 1285, which will further cement Florida as the best state in the nation for education. Some of the reforms it institutes include: - Simplifying the process to get failing schools turned around so no child is stuck in a poor-performing school, - Incentivizing school districts to grow their roster of Purple Star Schools to support military families, and - Streamlining the content objection process for parents and preventing activists from making bad-faith objections More to come on this legislation tomorrow. Florida is #1 in education!

Ron DeSantis

213,611 views • 2 years ago

🚨OUTRAGED: Activist Teachers Let Kids Skip Class to Protest ICE – Schools Are NOT Protest Zones!🚨 As a former high school teacher and a parent, I'm absolutely **outraged** by these activist teachers who are allowing—or worse, encouraging—high school students to skip class and protest ICE enforcement. Schools are for learning math, history, science, and real skills—not turning into political activism hubs that disrupt education and push divisive agendas. Our kids deserve better than being used as pawns in anti-enforcement protests while basic instruction gets sidelined. This kind of indoctrination has no place in our classrooms. Time to restore discipline, focus on education, and stop the radical activism that's hijacking public schools. Linda McMahon Donald J. Trump — as Secretary of Education and President, please step in and make it crystal clear: No more allowing schools to host or permit these disruptive protests during school hours. Protect our children's education from political exploitation. Return schools to teaching—not activism. #MAGA #EducationFirst #NoMoreIndoctrination

🚨OUTRAGED: Activist Teachers Let Kids Skip Class to Protest ICE – Schools Are NOT Protest Zones!🚨 As a former high school teacher and a parent, I'm absolutely outraged by these activist teachers who are allowing—or worse, encouraging—high school students to skip class and protest ICE enforcement. Schools are for learning math, history, science, and real skills—not turning into political activism hubs that disrupt education and push divisive agendas. Our kids deserve better than being used as pawns in anti-enforcement protests while basic instruction gets sidelined. This kind of indoctrination has no place in our classrooms. Time to restore discipline, focus on education, and stop the radical activism that's hijacking public schools. Linda McMahon Donald J. Trump — as Secretary of Education and President, please step in and make it crystal clear: No more allowing schools to host or permit these disruptive protests during school hours. Protect our children's education from political exploitation. Return schools to teaching—not activism. #MAGA #EducationFirst #NoMoreIndoctrination

Reverend Jordan Wells

19,159 views • 7 months ago

🚨MAJOR ALERT🚨 Trump’s Education Secretary is preparing the biggest assault on public schools in modern history: Elizabeth Warren puts it best: Maybe the WWE wasn’t the place to find a Department of Education head?! Here are the facts you need to know about Trump’s FY 2026 budget request: ✅ A proposed $12 BILLION cut — 15% of the entire Department of Education budget. This would wipe out more than 40 federal programs, slash Title I funding for low-income schools, gut special education services, and put up to 420,000 teaching and support jobs at risk. Imagine skyrocketing class sizes, fewer special ed services, and the total dismantling of equity programs. ✅ Freezing $6.8 BILLION in already-allocated K–12 funds. This is money districts were counting on for the new school year — funding for after-school programs, English-learner and migrant education support, teacher training, and enrichment programs. All stopped in their tracks, leaving schools scrambling. ✅ Laying off 1,400 Department of Education employees. These aren’t redundant staff — these are civil rights lawyers who enforce anti-discrimination laws, teams that oversee special education compliance, and workers who manage student financial aid. With these layoffs, expect delays, fewer protections for vulnerable students, and chaos for families counting on federal support. ✅ Canceling $900 MILLION in education research. These are critical studies on literacy, teacher effectiveness, school safety, and equity. Killing this research means states and schools will be flying blind when it comes to improving outcomes for kids. This isn’t draining the swamp. It’s draining the future of every child in America who depends on public education. BLAST THIS EVERYWHERE! #ClassroomsNotCuts

🚨MAJOR ALERT🚨 Trump’s Education Secretary is preparing the biggest assault on public schools in modern history: Elizabeth Warren puts it best: Maybe the WWE wasn’t the place to find a Department of Education head?! Here are the facts you need to know about Trump’s FY 2026 budget request: ✅ A proposed $12 BILLION cut — 15% of the entire Department of Education budget. This would wipe out more than 40 federal programs, slash Title I funding for low-income schools, gut special education services, and put up to 420,000 teaching and support jobs at risk. Imagine skyrocketing class sizes, fewer special ed services, and the total dismantling of equity programs. ✅ Freezing $6.8 BILLION in already-allocated K–12 funds. This is money districts were counting on for the new school year — funding for after-school programs, English-learner and migrant education support, teacher training, and enrichment programs. All stopped in their tracks, leaving schools scrambling. ✅ Laying off 1,400 Department of Education employees. These aren’t redundant staff — these are civil rights lawyers who enforce anti-discrimination laws, teams that oversee special education compliance, and workers who manage student financial aid. With these layoffs, expect delays, fewer protections for vulnerable students, and chaos for families counting on federal support. ✅ Canceling $900 MILLION in education research. These are critical studies on literacy, teacher effectiveness, school safety, and equity. Killing this research means states and schools will be flying blind when it comes to improving outcomes for kids. This isn’t draining the swamp. It’s draining the future of every child in America who depends on public education. BLAST THIS EVERYWHERE! #ClassroomsNotCuts

CALL TO ACTIVISM

60,278 views • 1 year ago

Casten: Since we will not be together on Halloween, I thought I would share spooky stories with you. These. all real and lifted from the Project 2025. The Department of Education should be eliminated. Eliminate the head start program… And no public education employee should use a name to address a student other than the name listed on their birth certificate. And this will be a problem for James Donald Bowman, James David Hamel, JD Hamel, or as they now identify J.D. Vance.

Casten: Since we will not be together on Halloween, I thought I would share spooky stories with you. These. all real and lifted from the Project 2025. The Department of Education should be eliminated. Eliminate the head start program… And no public education employee should use a name to address a student other than the name listed on their birth certificate. And this will be a problem for James Donald Bowman, James David Hamel, JD Hamel, or as they now identify J.D. Vance.

Acyn

128,314 views • 1 year ago

Trump announces ten point plan to revitalize American schools, with a final point that he will end the Department of Education and give power back to states: 1. Parental choice in education. 2. Hire and reward greatness, fire poor performers. “They will be fired, like on The Apprentice: ‘You’re fired.’” 3. Classes focused on knowledge and skills, not political indoctrination. 4. Students will be taught to love their country. 5. School prayer will be supported. 6. Immediate expulsion for violence and tough policies on drugs. 7. School choice guarantee for parents. 8. Access to project-based learning for meaningful work. 9. Access to internships. “I want them to be more successful than Trump.” 10. Ensure that all schools provide career and job counseling for high school and college students to secure jobs aligned with their “God-given talents.” Follow: AF Post

Trump announces ten point plan to revitalize American schools, with a final point that he will end the Department of Education and give power back to states: 1. Parental choice in education. 2. Hire and reward greatness, fire poor performers. “They will be fired, like on The Apprentice: ‘You’re fired.’” 3. Classes focused on knowledge and skills, not political indoctrination. 4. Students will be taught to love their country. 5. School prayer will be supported. 6. Immediate expulsion for violence and tough policies on drugs. 7. School choice guarantee for parents. 8. Access to project-based learning for meaningful work. 9. Access to internships. “I want them to be more successful than Trump.” 10. Ensure that all schools provide career and job counseling for high school and college students to secure jobs aligned with their “God-given talents.” Follow: AF Post

AF Post

445,348 views • 1 year ago

The news cycle changes on a whim and the issues Michiganders are facing continue to grow, so today I sat down for our first episode of: Kitchen Table Issues. Today we’re talking Michigan’s state budget crisis that could force me to lay off over 400 people in my department, with many more workers at risk. My team and I are working on a plan to protect as many jobs as we can, and do our part to offer solutions that can help avoid a shutdown. But what about the cuts this budget will make to the rest of the state in our schools and healthcare options? These are people and programs that keep our state running, and they shouldn’t be held hostage by political games. Tell your legislator: Get it done.

The news cycle changes on a whim and the issues Michiganders are facing continue to grow, so today I sat down for our first episode of: Kitchen Table Issues. Today we’re talking Michigan’s state budget crisis that could force me to lay off over 400 people in my department, with many more workers at risk. My team and I are working on a plan to protect as many jobs as we can, and do our part to offer solutions that can help avoid a shutdown. But what about the cuts this budget will make to the rest of the state in our schools and healthcare options? These are people and programs that keep our state running, and they shouldn’t be held hostage by political games. Tell your legislator: Get it done.

Jocelyn Benson

39,486 views • 11 months ago

Trump’s America is the “Golden Age” of POVERTY for many once well off middle class Americans. The way prices keep rising on everyday products, and food especially is completely UNSUSTAINABLE in the long term, and they KNOW that. This is happening because the whole idea of being middle class comfort and basic ownership rights are being snuffed out, on purpose, as part of Agenda 2030. “You will own nothing, and you will be happy.” Part of the “Great Reset” is to create a MASSIVE lower class, who are struggling so much to survive, that they will beg the Government for help, especially once AI or robots inevitably replaces their job. The LAST thing they want is for you to be self-sufficient, and that is why Elon Musk said in the next 10 years that money won’t matter anymore. For those who cant make it on there own, Universal Basic Income will ensure that the vast majority of Americans are permanently indentured slaves of the system, and permanently lower class.

Trump’s America is the “Golden Age” of POVERTY for many once well off middle class Americans. The way prices keep rising on everyday products, and food especially is completely UNSUSTAINABLE in the long term, and they KNOW that. This is happening because the whole idea of being middle class comfort and basic ownership rights are being snuffed out, on purpose, as part of Agenda 2030. “You will own nothing, and you will be happy.” Part of the “Great Reset” is to create a MASSIVE lower class, who are struggling so much to survive, that they will beg the Government for help, especially once AI or robots inevitably replaces their job. The LAST thing they want is for you to be self-sufficient, and that is why Elon Musk said in the next 10 years that money won’t matter anymore. For those who cant make it on there own, Universal Basic Income will ensure that the vast majority of Americans are permanently indentured slaves of the system, and permanently lower class.

The Patriot Voice

20,833 views • 1 month ago

It is insane that they are allowed to vote on whether they should EXPOSE themselves, their crimes, not to mention what they use OUR taxpayer funds to cover up. A new system needs to be created as a checks/balance on Congress. They should not be allowed to vote for their own pay raises, time off, etc. They should not be allowed to receive any personal "funds" from lobbyists. They should not be able to Insider Trade. They should not be able to vote to protect themselves from the public view of the atrocities they've committed as well as not showing receipts for hush payments. This system is fckd up. We deserve Change and need to demand it.

It is insane that they are allowed to vote on whether they should EXPOSE themselves, their crimes, not to mention what they use OUR taxpayer funds to cover up. A new system needs to be created as a checks/balance on Congress. They should not be allowed to vote for their own pay raises, time off, etc. They should not be allowed to receive any personal "funds" from lobbyists. They should not be able to Insider Trade. They should not be able to vote to protect themselves from the public view of the atrocities they've committed as well as not showing receipts for hush payments. This system is fckd up. We deserve Change and need to demand it.

Rick D

21,023 views • 6 months ago