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Pictured: Fairfax County School Board Chairman Karl Frisch Stephanie Lundquist-Arora | June 25, 2024 (Washington Examiner) — This Thursday, the Fairfax County School Board is set to vote on controversial changes to the district’s sex education curriculum. The vote likely will include whether to start instruction on gender ideology in elementary school, as recommended by the district’s […]

Stephanie Lundquist-Arora | June 11, 2024 (Washington Examiner) — In Fairfax County’s public schools, where drug possession on school grounds does not necessarily result in suspensions, political infractions, such as attending school maskless or “misgendering” peers, have been severely punished. Fairfax County’s code of conduct transcends “the science.” Even students in elementary school know from the highly

The left’s strategy is to redefine words that have clear definitions while being intentionally vague about terms like ‘marginalized groups.’ Stephanie Lundquist-Arora | May 28, 2024 (The Federalist) — With the rise of leftist, anti-Israel protests on college campuses, Americans increasingly recognize the dangers of the “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) cancer in higher education.

Stephanie Lundquist-Arora | May 23, 2024 (Washington Examiner) — Last week, Fairfax County’s school board members sent an email to the district’s residents soliciting feedback in a survey on the proposed changes to the family life education curriculum. The school board’s appointed Family Life Education Curriculum Advisory Committee members’ recommendations for this year include gender identity instruction in elementary school and

Stephanie Lundquist-Arora | May 17, 2024 (Washington Examiner) — The terms “marginalized group” and “protected class” are being used to hold some students’ interests, access to resources, and safety above others in Fairfax County’s public schools. Earlier this week, I requested information from Nardos King, the district’s chief equity officer, about the definitions and operationalization details for the

Stephanie Lundquist-Arora | May 15, 2024 (Washington Examiner) — On May 9, Fairfax County’s school board held its regular meeting during which the board was scheduled to discuss the recommendations of its appointed Family Life Education Curriculum Advisory Committee, or FLECAC. Fairfax County’s school board members, however, skipped the vote on the committee’s recommended changes to

Stephanie Lundquist-Arora | April 30, 2024 (Washington Examiner) — Members of the Fairfax County School Board only seem to be concerned with students’ and teachers’ “inherent biases” when they are against pre-approved groups. It seems that Jewish students are not among them. According to the Anti-Defamation League, antisemitic incidents are increasing across the country. From 2022 to 2023, ADL reports a 135% increase

(Washington Examiner) — It is not surprising that Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, or TJ, has fallen again in the 2024 U.S. News World Report’s ranking of best public high schools. This year, TJ is ranked 14th, down from 5th in 2023, and 1st for three years before that. Its premier ranking occurred when Fairfax County’s only

Stephanie Lundquist-Arora | April 24, 2024 (Washington Examiner) — On April 11, a public school in DeWitt, Michigan, sent a letter home with its first grade students notifying parents about a plan to teach the 6-year-old children about gender ideology. Not only is this topic a reprehensible overreach of government-funded schools, but it is extremely