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Education Expert Urges Trump, McMahon to Use Dept. of Ed Powers to Save American Kids, Not Shut it All Down

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Conservative education reformer John Droz is warning that America’s K-12 system is collapsing by design. He says the U.S. Department of Education could be used to reverse the decline if President Donald Trump and Linda McMahon are willing to lead.

While many Republicans want the Department abolished, and celebrated last month’s 6-3 decision by the Supreme Court to shutter the Department, Droz says scrapping it will only remove one of the few tools available to fight the Left’s monopoly control and stranglehold over government education. Instead, he calls for using the Department’s full authority and budget to dismantle ideological indoctrination, set clear national standards, and restore a curriculum based on critical thinking.

President Trump said in February that the Dept. of Education would be abolished. Droz hopes that Trump can at least use its statutory authority and funding to give relief to American parents who are sending their children to what he called “indoctrination camps.”

Droz publishes his research and findings on Substack, “Critically Thinking about Select Societal Issues.” Droz previously testified before Congress several times in 2012 about necessary policy changes to reform American education.

Right now, Droz says, the nation’s schools are left-wing bastions that are teaching left-wing values, not skills or common sense academic standards. The current goals of American education, from his studies, are: “1) to be anti-American, 2) to substitute atheism for the Judeo-Christian standards of most of their parents, 3) to buy into Socialist and Marxist ideology, 4) to normalize hate, gender dysphoria, sexual perversion, drug use, etc. plus 5) to be non-thinking sheeple.”

From Independent Thought to Indoctrination

According to Droz, the education establishment has replaced teaching “how to think” with teaching “what to think,” and the “what” is controlled entirely by the Left. Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) is now a fixture in teacher training and lesson plans nationwide. Droz calls SEL a Trojan horse for Marxist ideology, disguised as harmless self-help and empathy training.

Meanwhile, there is no meaningful plan in most states to teach critical thinking. “The current system rewards conformity, not inquiry,” Droz told The Gateway Pundit. “Whether it is history, science, or math, the ideology is baked in and the Right has completely abdicated.” Droz notes that one of the few states that outlines a state-level goal to pursue Critical Thinking, North Carolina, currently has no accompanying curriculum that teaches the concept to achieve the goal.

The NGSS Conformity Agenda

Droz points to the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), adopted by 49 states, as an example of curriculum built to enforce mental compliance. Instead of teaching the scientific method, NGSS tells students to accept consensus views, defer to authority, and embrace politically-correct goals without asking questions.

“It is the opposite of science,” Droz said. “It is training children to be lemmings.”

As well, Droz notes, that when he questions education leadership around the country about how they accomplish these goals, they begrudgingly admit that it is all ultimately “up to the teachers.”

And surveys of teacher political attitudes show that they consider themselves to be far-left Democrats, with typical results 90% identifying as Democrats.

Proving Reform Works

Droz cites a network of 16 affordable, Christian-founded private schools in North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia that explicitly commit to producing critical thinkers, the “Thales Academy.” https://www.thalesacademy.org/ Their approach uses traditional instruction, including the Socratic method, and they are so popular that their waiting list is currently two years for admission.

No State Meets the Standard

For Droz, the problem is national in scope. “No state in America is delivering a high-quality K–12 education product,” he said. “Maybe six states have a reasonable grasp of the problem. The rest are doing nothing effective.”

The result is a patchwork of weak policies and inconsistent standards and goals on issues as diverse as pornographic and violent books in school libraries, politically-slanted lesson plans, the purpose of education, and teacher training programs and requirements.

This results in an inconsistent patchwork of results for the nation’s 49.6 million students enrolled in K-12 government education every year, in the nation’s 98,500 government schools.

Eighty Billion Ways to Act

Droz says the Department of Education’s $80 billion annual discretionary budget alone could be used and channelled to set a national goal: replace “what to think” with “how to think.” Federal funding could be tied to states that adopt critical thinking curricula and reform teacher certification to remove ideological content.

“The most effective thing that could be done right now, since no state is providing high-quality K-12 education, is to provide clear, strong leadership to the nation and set a goal that American schools will empower our children with the skills to think critically,” Droz said.

“This one change could completely alter the direction of American education,” Droz says. “If Trump and McMahon lead on this, they could save our schools and save the country. This is an opportunity our country may never have again.”

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Former AOC Campaign Organizer Arrested Over Terror Threats Against Jewish High School

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A former campaign organizer for Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been charged over alleged terror threats she made against a Jewish high school.

Iman Abdul, who previously worked as a youth organizer for AOC, was arrested on Friday for allegedly urging her 25,000 social media followers to “attack” the Leon M. Goldstein High School for the Sciences in Manhattan Beach.

“If anyone needs a public school in NYC to attack for whatever reason … Lexus driving Israhell (sic) loving Zionisits (sic) all attend here,” she wrote in a social media post, which has since been deleted.

“They’ve all gone on ‘Birthright,’” she added added, referencing a program that provides free 10-day trips to Israel for young Jews.

The post in question showed the location of the school on Google Maps so that her followers could locate it.

According to The New York Post, officers from the New York Police Department (NYPD) took Abdul into custody at her Brooklyn residence on Friday.

She was later charged with making her making terror threats, aggravated harassment, threatening mass harm, and endangering the welfare of children

In the summer of 2018, she was involved in the Democratic primary campaigns of progressive figures Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and state Senator Julia Salazar, even serving as a paid canvasser for Salazar.

Abdul’s post was first flagged by the online campaign group StopAntisemitsm, who said she should be “prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”

She later messaged the group directly, where she denied having made physical threats of violence.

“I never called for an attack on the school in the sense of mass organization or not even individual people attacking individuals, that’s literally stupid,” she wrote.

“I called for an attack on the school, the Zionist institution funded by our public dollars … we have every right to verbally attack the school.”

She has since deleted all her social media accounts and is expected in court at a later date.

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Jimmy Kimmel Blames ‘Repulsive’ Liberal Activists For Trump’s Return to Power (VIDEO)

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Late-night comedian Jimmy Kimmel has blamed “repulsive” liberal activists for enabling President Donald Trump’s return to power.

During an appearance on the Sarah Silverman Podcast on Thursday, Kimmel said without a shred of irony that “loud voices” had scared people away from the Democratic Party.

“I’s not the party. It’s not the majority,” Kimmel insisted. “ It’s the loud voices that scare people from saying what they believe and make you think twice about a joke or whatever.”

“You know, a lot of their points are valid, but a lot of them are also just repulsive, in that they repel people,” he continued.

“They go like, ‘Oh, you’re no fun. I don’t want to be around you.’ And I think that if you had to boil it down to one thing, that’s kind of what it is.”

It is not the first time that Kimmel, who is himself a committed left-wing activist, has accused humorless liberals of costing the Democrats the 2024 election.

“I think a lot of the outrage is completely manufactured, and it’s like, a lot of these people who are angry aren’t really angry,” Kimmel said back in April.

”I think these liberals who’ve done such a good job of viciously attacking comedians are a big part of the reason why Trump is the president right now.”

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Following Trump’s victory last November, Kimmel choked up on air as he moaned about the “hard-working immigrants” who might be deported under the administration.

Last month, Kimmel had a social media meltdown after his fellow late-night comedian Stephen Colbert was canned by CBS.

“Love you, Stephen. Fuck you and all your Sheldons CBS,” he wrote at the time.

President Trump, meanwhile, warned that Kimmel may well be next on the chopping block.

“I absolutely love that Colbert got fired,” Trump wrote after hearing the news of Colbert’s firing. “His talent was even less than his ratings.”

“I hear Jimmy Kimmel is next. Has even less talent than Colbert!” he continued.

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National Security Advisers From Europe and Ukraine Hold Meeting Today in England, Hosted by UK Foreign Secretary Lammy and US Vice President Vance

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UK’s Lammy and US Vice-President Vance will host the European and Ukrainian ‘allies’ for a meeting today.

As we have reported previously, Vice President JD Vance’s holiday in the UK is actually filled with relevant work pushing President Donald J. Trump’s foreign policy.

Today, a meeting of National Security Advisers from the US, UK, as well as European ‘allies’ and Ukrainians, is being held, hosted by Foreign Secretary David Lammy and Vance.

The meeting is taking place at Chevening, Secretary Lammy’s ‘official country residence’ in Kent where Vance is staying during his days in the UK.

Daily Mail reported:

“The aim of the meeting is to bring together advisors from the US, Europe and Ukraine – it is understood to have been requested by the US.

A Downing Street spokesperson said that Keir Starmer and Volodymyr Zelensky agreed the meeting would be a ‘vital forum to discuss progress towards securing a just and lasting peace’.

‘Both leaders welcomed President Trump’s desire to bring this barbaric war to an end and agreed that we must keep up the pressure on Putin to end his illegal war,’ the spokesperson added.”

This meeting follows the news that Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold a peace summit in Alaska on August 15.

“’The highly anticipated meeting between myself, as President of the United States of America, and President Vladimir Putin, of Russia, will take place next Friday, August 15, 2025, in the Great State of Alaska,’ Trump wrote. ‘Further details to follow. Thank you for your attention to this matter!’”

This stay by Vance highlights that Foreign Secretary Lammy has somehow managed to become closer to the Trump administration, having previously called the president a ‘Neo-Nazi sympathizing sociopath’.

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