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Instagram posts
stated on December 16, 2024 in an Instagram post:

Photo of a young man in a tie shows Wisconsin school shooter Natalie Rupnow.

By Sofia Ahmed • December 17, 2024
Threads posts
stated on December 10, 2024 in a Threads post:

“Texas declares bringing a pride flag to the classroom a crime.”

By Sofia Ahmed • December 12, 2024
Instagram posts
stated on November 16, 2024 in a video:

Video shows President-elect Donald Trump announcing “free college education” in November 2024.

By Ciara O'Rourke • November 27, 2024
Threads posts
stated on November 18, 2024 in a Threads post:

The Associated Press misspelled Mississippi in a headline about the state’s literacy program.

By Sofia Ahmed • November 21, 2024
Instagram posts
stated on November 13, 2024 in an Instagram post:

“Breaking: Trump names Boebert secretary of education”

By Sofia Ahmed • November 15, 2024
Lisa Grafstein
stated on October 12, 2024 in a campaign mailer:

Scott Lassiter “repeatedly campaigned to promote” North Carolina's “largest-ever” school funding cut, sending public school money to “unaccountable private schools” and ending science education.

By Paul Specht • October 25, 2024
Donald Trump
stated on September 18, 2024 in a speech in New York:

When Haitians go to school in Springfield, Ohio, they “take the place of our children in school” and “each one will have a private interpreter."

By Amy Sherman • September 23, 2024
Facebook posts
stated on September 8, 2024 in a social media post:

Photos that show lists of school names are “school shooting lists.”

By Andy Nguyen • September 15, 2024
Social Media
stated on August 29, 2024 in a post on Instagram:

“BREAKING: Illegal Aliens in San Diego, California, tried to hijack 2 school buses filled with children.”

By Madison Czopek • September 4, 2024
Instagram posts
stated on June 16, 2024 in an Instagram post:

California Assembly Bill 1955 “would allow schools to secretly, socially and perhaps medically transition your child without your knowledge and consent."

By Jeff Cercone • June 21, 2024
Facebook posts
stated on April 30, 2024 in a Facebook reel:

Video shows “protesters at Harvard replace American flag with Palestinian flag.”

By Sara Swann • May 3, 2024
Mike Johnson
stated on April 24, 2024 in an interview with CNN:

Said Columbia University has told students, “Well, if you’re Jewish, maybe you do want to stay home.”

By Louis Jacobson • April 29, 2024
Megyn Kelly
stated on April 18, 2024 in a Facebook post:

“School allows students to be terrorized by colleagues who identify as ‘furries.’”

By Madison Czopek • April 26, 2024
Facebook posts
stated on November 20, 2023 in a video:

Video shows teacher teaching gender pronouns and being confronted by students

By Grace Abels • November 27, 2023
Facebook posts
stated on July 19, 2023 in a Facebook reel:

Photos show children wearing satanic clothing and participating in a satanic club.

By Sara Swann • July 21, 2023
Fox News Channel
stated on July 5, 2023 in a chyron:

Gender Queer on NEA Summer Reading List for Kids.

By Sofia Bliss-Carrascosa • July 11, 2023
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.”

By Sevana Wenn • June 22, 2023
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."

By Louis Jacobson • June 6, 2023
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.”

By Gabrielle Settles • June 1, 2023
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.”

By Matthew Crowley • May 31, 2023
Facebook posts
stated on April 6, 2023 in a video shared on Facebook:

U.S. public schools don't teach the Declaration of Independence.

By Madison Czopek • April 7, 2023
Kat Cammack
stated on March 2, 2023 in a speech at CPAC:

The Justice Department has been “calling parents that are concerned about what their kids are being taught, they are labeling them terrorists.”

By Madison Czopek • March 2, 2023
Winsome Earle-Sears
stated on February 2, 2023 in a radio interview.:

Brown v. Board of Education “was never about sending Black children to white schools. It was about parents being able to decide where to send their children to school.”

By Warren Fiske • February 22, 2023
Lauren Boebert
stated on February 7, 2023 in a tweet:

Joe Biden closed schools during the COVID-19 pandemic.

By Amy Sherman • February 8, 2023
Marjorie Taylor Greene
stated on February 1, 2023 in a House committee hearing:

Illinois “received $5.1 billion at an elementary school there that used it for equity and diversity.”

By Jeff Cercone • February 3, 2023
Scott Walker
stated on January 5, 2023 in Twitter:

“Let’s be clear: ‘drag shows’ are strip shows.”

By Laura Schulte • January 25, 2023
Scott Perry
stated on January 8, 2023 in ABC This Week interview:

"Parents that go to school board meetings" and question the curriculum are being "flagged by the Department of Justice and the FBI for attending a meeting."

By Amy Sherman • January 10, 2023
Kari Lake
stated on September 20, 2022 in a tweet:

Said Katie Hobbs “fought to” “prevent students from learning (about) the Pledge of Allegiance, Constitution, Mayflower Compact and Declaration of Independence.”

By Haley Tenore • November 2, 2022
Deidre DeJear
stated on October 19, 2022 in a tweet:

"Kim Reynolds doesn’t think nurses are educated."

By Liam Halawith • October 31, 2022
Joe Biden
stated on October 23, 2022 in a forum with Now This:

Student loan forgiveness is “passed. I got it passed by a vote or two. And it’s in effect.”

By Louis Jacobson • October 25, 2022

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