Schools Group That Urged Attorney General’s Anti-Parent Initiative Has Ties to Democrats, Unions

Plus: School System Deflects Charges It Covered Up Rape of Ninth Grade Girl by 'Gender-Fluid' Boy

October 14 2021   Good morning from Washington, where a group representing school boards becomes  infamous for asking President BIden to treat concerned parents as domestic terrorists. Fred Lucas looks into its links to elected Democrats. Our Mary Margaret Olohan reports on a school system's response to accusations that it covered up a restroom rape to preserve a policy catering to transgender students. On the podcast, learn how to track cancel culture on campus. Plus: why China talks tough; Ben Shapiro on the state of the union; and "Problematic Women" celebrates one young woman's victory over breast cancer. On this date in 1964, Martin Luther King Jr., 34, wins the Nobel Peace Prize for nonviolent resistance to racial prejudice in America.      NEWS Schools Group That Urged Attorney General's Anti-Parent Initiative Has Ties to Democrats, Unions By Fred Lucas Leaders of the National School Boards Association, which compares the actions of angry parents to "domestic terrorism," have worked for and contributed to Democrat politicians. More NEWS Virginia School System Responds to Charges It Covered Up Rape of Ninth Grade Girl by 'Gender-Fluid' Boy By Mary Margaret Olohan The victim's father, Scott Smith, says that in May, a boy dressed in a skirt entered a girls restroom at Stone Bridge High School in Ashburn, Virginia, and sexually assaulted his daughter. More ANALYSIS New Database Documents Campus Cancel Culture By Douglas Blair Cancel culture is endemic on college campuses. Every day come stories of professors, speakers, and students who run afoul of the radical left and suffer the consequences. More COMMENTARY Xi Jinping's Taiwan Saber-Rattling Is All About Shoring Up Domestic Power By Dean Cheng Xi likely will stoke nationalist fervor, both by sounding the alarm about "splittists" on Taiwan and blaming foreign powers, especially the U.S. and Japan, for trying to tear China apart. More ANALYSIS A Young Survivor Shares Her Story During Breast Cancer Awareness Month By Virginia Allen Gloria Taylor was diagnosed with breast cancer at age 26. In a matter of days, she went from planning hikes with friends to being faced with life-altering decisions about her health. More COMMENTARY US Should Be Booming. Why Are We Stagnating? By Ben Shapiro "Only in America, when the president tweets about liberation, does he mean 'go back to work,'" Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says. "I think a lot of people should just say no. We're not going back to work." More COMMENTARY ICYMI: Democrats Are Turning America Into European Social Welfare State By Grace-Marie Turner Cradle-to-grave subsidies in Democrats' $3.5 trillion spending bill will create a welfare trap for millions more, send inflation soaring, and drive our nation much deeper into debt. More           Donate to The Daily Signal Find us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter How are we doing? We welcome your comments, suggestions, and story tips. Please reply to this email or send us a note at letters@dailysignal.com. The Daily Signal 214 Massachusetts Avenue, NE Washington, DC 20002 (800) 546-2843     Add morningbell@heritage.org to your address book to ensure that you receive emails from us. You are subscribed to this newsletter as johnmhames1.diogenes--light@blogger.com. If you want to receive other Heritage Foundation newsletters, or opt out of this newsletter, please click here to update your subscription.