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Former Vice President Mike Pence speaks about educational freedom at Patrick Henry College in Purcellville, Va., Thursday, Oct. 28, 2021. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) ** FILE **

‘Perfect storm’: Pence lauds Loudoun County fight against wokeness

By Valerie Richardson and Mica Soellner - The Washington Times

Attorney General Merrick Garland testifies before the House Judiciary Committee oversight hearing of the United States Department of Justice, Thursday, Oct. 21, 2021. on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Michael Reynolds/Pool via AP)

House Judiciary Republicans urge AG Garland to call off probe into school disputes

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Attorney General Merrick Garland speaking at the Justice Department in Washington, Friday, Oct. 22, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Poll: Majority opposes Garland plan for FBI to probe school board meetings

By Emily Zantow - The Washington Times

In this Jan. 6, 2021, file photo, Trump supporters try to break through a police barrier at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. A House committee tasked with investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection is moving swiftly to hold at least one of Donald Trumps allies, former White House aide Steve Bannon, in contempt. That's happening as the former president is pushing back on the probe in a new lawsuit. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

AG Garland defends Jan. 6 prosecutions, denies he’ll shield school boards from vocal parents

By Dave Boyer and Emily Zantow - The Washington Times

Attorney General Merrick Garland testifies during a House Judiciary Committee oversight hearing of the Department of Justice on Thursday, Oct. 21, 2021, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Greg Nash/Pool via AP)

Garland stumped by rape case that spurred parent’s outburst at school board meeting

By Mica Soellner - The Washington Times

School Board Elections Illustration by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Why local school board elections are so important

By Lou Holtz

Jennifer Feucht, candidate for Olentangy Local Board of Education, delivers campaign flyers and yard signs to Brad and Tina Krider Thursday, Oct. 7, 2021, in Westerville, Ohio. Across Ohio and the nation, parental protests over social issues like mask mandates, gender-neutral bathrooms, teachings on racial history, sexuality and mental and emotional health are being leveraged into school board takeover campaigns. (AP Photo/Jay LaPrete)

Local school boards emerge as hot races in November election

By Julie Carr Smyth and Patty Nieberg - Associated Press

In this Aug. 5, 2021, photo, Attorney General Merrick Garland speaks at a news conference at the Department of Justice in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) **FILE**

GOP lawmakers alarmed Biden’s DOJ appears to be ‘policing’ parents’ free speech

By Emily Zantow - The Washington Times

Attorney General Merrick Garland announces a lawsuit to block the enforcement of a new Texas law that bans most abortions, at the Justice Department in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 9, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

Critics say DOJ move to stop school board threats will deter free speech

By Emily Zantow - The Washington Times

In this Sept. 9, 2021, photo, Attorney General Merrick Garland announces a lawsuit to block the enforcement of a new Texas law that bans most abortions, at the Justice Department in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **

AG Merrick Garland directs FBI to target ‘disturbing spike’ in school board threats

By Emily Zantow - The Washington Times

Illustration on the National School Boards Association's view of parents by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

National School Boards Association declares conservative parents to be domestic terrorists

By Everett Piper

Tay Anderson, Denver School Board at large director, uses a bullhorn to speak during a protest outside the State Capitol over the death of George Floyd, a handcuffed black man in police custody in Minneapolis, Friday, May 29, 2020, in Denver. More than 1,000 protesters walked from the Capitol down the 16th Street pedestrian mall during the protest. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Denver students walk out to demand removal of school board member

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

In this Aug. 12, 2021, file photo, protesters against a COVID-19 mandate gesture as they are escorted out of the Clark County School Board meeting at the Clark County Government Center, in Las Vegas. A growing number of school board members across the U.S. are resigning or questioning their willingness to serve as meetings have devolved into shouting contests over contentious issues including masks in schools. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP, File)

Hostile school board meetings have members calling it quits

By Carolyn Thompson - Associated Press

Virginia Governor Ralph Northam announces that all state workers must be vaccinated or face weekly testing for COVID-19 as he speaks to reporters inside the Patrick Henry Building in Richmond, Va., Thursday, Aug. 5, 2021. (AP Photo/Richmond Times-Dispatch, Bob Brown)./Richmond Times-Dispatch via AP)

After some schools push back on masks, Virginia orders them

By Sarah Rankin - Associated Press

A person raises their fist in front of a Black Lives Matter flag after the 2020 presidential election is called for President-elect Joe Biden in Los Angeles, Saturday, Nov. 7, 2020. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu)

Oregon school board votes to ban Black Lives Matter, pride flags

Associated Press

School board races primed to explode with critical race theory backers, opponents

By James Varney - The Washington Times

In this May 25, 2021, file photo, a man holds up a sign against critical race theory during a protest outside a Washoe County School District board meeting in Reno, Nev. (Andy Barron/Reno Gazette-Journal via AP) **FILE**

Critical race theory explodes from obscure debate to front line of culture war

By Emily Zantow - The Washington Times

Illustration on Marxism in schools by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Stopping communism one school district at a time

By Robert Knight

In this July 26, 2017 file photo, people with the Human Rights Campaign hold up "equality flags" during an event on Capitol Hill in Washington, in support of transgender members of the military. Defense officials say the Pentagon will sweep away Trump-era policies that largely banned transgender people from serving in the military and will issue new rules that broaden their access to medical care and gender transition. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

School system to appeal reinstatement of teacher in transgender flap to Va. Supreme Court

Associated Press

A photo collage of Lamar High School staff hangs on the wall in the school in this file photograph taken March 31, 2015. Colorado lawmakers are considering a proposal to ban Native American mascots in public schools and colleges. the state Senate Education Committee is scheduled to discuss a measure Thursday, April 1, 2021, that would impose a $25,000 monthly fine on public schools, colleges and universities that continue to use an American Indian-themed mascot after June 1, 2022. (RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post via The AP) ** FILE **

America’s public school servants are out of control

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times