Trump's orders take aim at critical race theory, antisemitism on college campuses

These college students were Jewish, Muslim, Black, Palestinian and various other races who were simply protesting what they viewed as a genocide in Gaza,

Mitchell said

If the U.S. denies young people this knowledge, it has little hope of eradicating racism,

he said

Today is a sad day because the Trump administration is doing exactly what it accuses others of: creating division and fear in classrooms across America,

she said

Ending ... Parents have witnessed schools indoctrinate their children in radical, anti-American ideologies while deliberately blocking parental oversight."

Trump’s executive order on CRT, ... reads

President Trump just showed the American people why he won the parent vote by 9 points,

Corey DeAngelis, senior fellow at the American Culture Project and executive director of the Educational Freedom Institute, told Fox News Digital

When our public education system fails such a large segment of society, it hinders our national competitiveness and devastates families and communities,

the executive order reads

Expanding Educational Freedom and Opportunity for Families ,

Trump’s executive order on school choice

Such an environment operates as an echo chamber, in which students are forced to accept these ideologies without question or critical examination. In many cases, innocent children are compelled to adopt identities as either victims or oppressors solely based on their skin color and other immutable characteristics."

It goes on to say

Frederick M. Hessamerican political scientist (born 1968)

This stuff is directionally significant,

said Hess

It is the policy of my Administration to support parents in choosing and directing the upbringing and education of their children,

the president said in the order

As a candidate, he said there was radical indoctrination of students,

she said

It is intended to scare teachers away from supporting transgender students by making it seem as though that is somehow connected to sexually exploiting a student or unlawfully practicing medicine. Of course there’s absolutely no basis to any such claim,

Shannon Minter, the legal director at the National Center for Lesbian Rights, wrote in a statement

This is nothing but an empty threat designed to intimidate teachers and further stigmatize and demean transgender people,

he added

The discrimination was deliberate, open, and offensive, going so far as to have a Frequently Asked Question on the event website explaining why White students were not invited,

Jacobson added

We are pleased that the Dept. of Education has opened a formal investigation into racial discrimination against White students at ICSD,

Cornell professor William Jacobson and founder of the Equal Protection Project , said of Ithaca City School District, in a statement to Fox News Digital

The District informed OCR that the affinity groups listed on the announcement and scheduled for February 8, 2023, did not take place. The District further informed OCR that all of the District’s programming is open to all participants regardless of race and there are no affinity groups or other programs that are exclusionary based on race. OCR confirmed that the announcement listing the affinity groups no longer exists on the District’s website."

They quote a 2023 communication from the school district to the office of Civil Rights that says

As a recipient of federal financial assistance from the Department, the District must comply with Title VI and its implementing regulations,

the letter reads

The Frequently Asked Questions section of the official SOCU Summit website even included an explanation as to ‘Why aren’t White students invited?’ and required that registering students ‘acknowledge that this is a Student of Color ONLY event.’

They add

Colbey Decker, a mom from Green Bay, Wisconsin, has a dyslexic son who was denied reading resources because he is white,

WILL said in a press release