The Trump administration is seeking to replace education with indoctrination in America’s K-12 public schools, demanding schools paint a fairy tale picture of the American story that focuses only on the good while ignoring the bad and the ugly. We owe our children better.

Alarmingly, the administration wants to withhold billions of dollars in federal aid to schools unless they bow to its dictatorial demands.

An executive order signed by President Trump, titled “Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling,” says that schools must instill in students “a patriotic admiration for our incredible nation and the values for which we stand.” It denounces schools that teach “anti-American, subversive, harmful, and false ideologies.” The order gives the federal government dangerously wide latitude to censor what it considers impermissible educational content.

Another Trump executive order on schools denounces “gender ideology” and “the false claim that males can identify as and thus become women and vice versa.” It is being used by the Trump administration to demand that transgender students be barred from athletic teams and restrooms that align with their gender identity.

In addition, a memo sent by the U.S. Education Department to state education officials in April threatened to cut off federal aid to public schools unless the schools end their diversity, equity and inclusion or DEI programs, which the memo claimed are illegal even though no court has........

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