Schools are allowed to keep a childs sexuality a secret from their parents. The Senior National correspondent kevin corke is live in dc with the breaking information on this. Kevin good evening. Reporter evening trace. Three Monmouth County new jersey districts are being sued by the state of new jersey for passing versions of policy requiring teachers to inform parents if a student is seeking a transgender accommodation, such as using a new pronoun or bathroom. Today was the first time the state publicly argued its case against the middletown, marlboro and Manalapan EnglishtownSchool Districts, districts whose leaders agree that the aim here, trace, is to strike a balance between care for the children and the rights of parents. I dont think that our policy is discriminatory in any way. I think we carefully crafted it to be compassionate and to actually attend to the needs of our district. Reporter meanwhile a spokesperson for the Office Of The Attorney General in new jersey said in a statement tonight, the state has always respected the rights of parents and agrees that parents should be involved in important decisions regarding their children and any characterizations to the contrary are flatly incorrect. To be clear, the state has never sought and never will seek a ban on parental notification. Now, the battle, as you can imagine, also centers around the idea of children, were talking about kids, attempting to change names and bathrooms and Gender Identification as well as sports team participation. By the way the superior court judge in this case David Baumann says he will release his decision on this issue shortly. We dont know how soon that is. Shortly could mean as far as a week well keep you posted but for now back to you. Trace we that you see it would be today but not the case. Kevin corke well goat back to you as the news breaks. Thank you. Trace well, the fox news at night Common Sense Department had to go back and reread a Statement Released by the los angeles superintendent of schools. The statement needed a double take because it was astonishing in its hypocrisy. Los angeles is now urging students to come to school sick, sneezing, coughing, sniffles, no problem. The superintendent says quoting, we cannot continue an environment where 40 of our kids are chronically absent. Common sense would like to offer this reminder. During covid, los angeles unified had the strictest Safety Protocols in the country, keeping schools closed well beyond when the vast majority of students had already gone back. And even after the Los Angeles CovidInfection Rate said it was safe to go back, instead, la unified bowed to the Teachers Union and locked kids out for years. Which, according to the surgeon general, leads to, quote, anxiety, depression, social, emotional stressors and Suicidal Ideation not to mentaling tragic test scores now the la unified Chief Medical Officer says quote, schools are some of the safest places for children to be the. Maybe some honesty is in order, like acknowledging schools lose hundreds of millions in State Funding when kids dont show up. Common sense thinks its sad and hypocritical when the road to a healthy budget relies on sick kids. Lets bring in the director of the Education Freedom Center at the independent womens forum Ginny Gentles and American Federation senior fellow corey deangelis, welcome to you both. Corey, well talk about common sense in a minute but i want to hit the breaking news kevin was talking about, the new Jersey School districts with you, the whole concept of these three School Districts having to go to court to fight this battle over whether parents can be notified about a child changing genders. I mean, its happening across the country but its a very big deal. I cant believe this is the hill that theyre willing to die on. Theyre fighting so hard to keep sexuality secrets about children from their own parents. You have these far leftist communists, essentially, indicating that they believe kids belong to the government and not their parents. So hopefully the judge rules in favor of parents, but, you know what . Judges can be taken over by Judicial Activism just as much as politicians. Trace thats exactly true. Ginny im wondering this and you have to ask because the whole concept of this is when you do these polls, these parent polls, the vast majority of parents are in if favor of, yes, we need to know everything about our kids and yet you have these schools fighting seaing, well, that could be dangerous in some cases. Right, and theyre absolutely wrong. Parents love their kids, they know whats best for them. Its unprecedented that schools would be Hiding Information from parents, especially information like social transitions, which are not a neutral act. This is a psycho social intervention that pushes children into these new identities hides that information from parents and then leads them down a path to medical transitions which we know have lifelong consequences and Serious Health risks. So over a thousand School Districts have these policies in place. We know that through the parents defending education analysis, and this has to stop. Trace i want to pivot back now if i can corey to common sense because the whole concept of the la unified superintendent telling sick kids to come on back to school after forcing them to stay home for as long as anybody in the country. Yeah. Wait, hold up, wasnt this the same district that had the Teachers Unions calling for medicare for all, a wealth tax and Police Free Schools in order to stay open. They see kids as dollar signs and now theyre realizing so many fled the district that they get 21,000 or so dollars per student per year, theyre losing money and they want the kids back. Their plan to keep schools closed with tax pay money and now theyre begging families to sends kids back. Trace i want your thoughts ginny because it shocked even the la times and the la times was on board with keeping the schools closed for a very long time. We knew as parents that our kids needed to be in classrooms. Virginia, leak california, kept schools closed. And i watched my children struggle. Thankfully schools are open again, but la is facing 40 Chronic Absenteeism and keep in mind these students are absent 10 of the school year or more. Theyre not learning to read. They are at high risk of failing, and dropping out. Obviously, the superintendent has a big budget hole that he needs to fill with federal Emergency Supplemental Funding drying up. La received 2. 6 billion in funding and hes nervous. Trace he is nervous. I want to put this on the screen because corey you tweeted this and it is a fairly fascinating. The National Center for education statistics, school funding, 18,000 per student, average class size, 24 students, 436plus thousand per classrooms, 66,745 the average teachers salary. Ive got about 20 seconds for each of you. Where is the money going . Corey. Well, you know what trace . I think weve got to hire a thousand administrators to get to the bottom of this ca number drum and figure it out. Obviously the blow of Staffing Shortages in the schools and maybe theyre sending some of the money to ukraine as well, i dont know where its going but not to the classroom because the Government School system is a monopoly that has no incentive to spend the dollars wisely. Reporter 436,000 per classroom and the test scores havent been this low in decades. Your final thoughts . Tests have plummeted in every state, and funding has doubled after inflation per pupil since i was in school back in the 1980s, districts have plenty of funding they need to be targeting it to teachers and figuring out creative ways. Like let teachers teach 12 months out of the year, and let them have more than 190 day contract if they want to teach more and make more. Trace yeah, Ginny Gentles, corey deangelis, thank you both. Thank you. Trace meantime former President Trump in defiance over the latest charges brought against him in georgia, and he says he will present proof of president ial Election Fraud at a News Conference next week. Jeff paul is live with the very latest news on this. Jeff good evening. Well, trace, buckle up. If you thought yesterdays fourth indictment of the former president was dizzying, this is only the beginning. As it stands, follow me, trump has an october court date regarding a business fraud case. Then his trial involving the January 6th Riots is set to begin january of 2024. Roughly two months later trump is back in court regarding the Stormy Daniels hush money case. Another two months later, the maralago classified documents case is supposed to start in may. While we dont know when his judge case is supposed to have started, The Da Said Last Night she would like to start within six months of last night. So we spoke with a former federal prosecutor, kendall coffee, he said the idea of preparing for several trials while also running a president ial campaign seems almost impossible. The frustration that i think is legitimate is the effort to push this to trial at what amounts to a velocity that is not consistent with usual cases of this magnitude. Reporter now coffee also says normally state and federal prosecutors communicate more to either condense a schedule but that doesnt seem to be happening and it might come counsel to each Prosecuting Office cant give up the idea of making history, taking on a former president. Trump said he will be exonerated and has scheduled a News Conference for monday. And cameras will be there waiting. Lets bring in nelson perez, i want to play this sound bite from mccarthy and get your thoughts on the other side. Watch. It is not easy to get 19 defendants to trial. I dont know how on earth they can do that in six months and i would remind people a number of people who are indicted here are in themselves lawyers. There are going to be voluminous pretrial litigation in this case. I mean, they want this thing by february, right . What do you think . Any possibility of this thing falling in line. I dont see this going to try by february. I absolutely do not see that. Like you said, there are 19 defendants named in this indictment. There will be voluminous discovery. It takes time, this is a complex investigation, a complex case. Trace i wanted to bring something to your attention, about a year ago, August 8th Of 2022 when we first heard about the raid at maralago and americans were absolutely shocked. I was shocked. A Special Agent in the miami division, i was not present but i was absolutely shockedment a year later look where were at, if you heard there was a raid at maralago now you wouldnt flinch. Theres one indictment after another after another and i think americans have become accustomed to this happening. Half americans say is this justice . Half of america says thinks malice and thats no. Gay place when half the country doesnt trust our criminal Justice System any longer, its that bad. I hate to interrupt but i think part of the plan is had you alvin bragg come out first and it was just so weak on its face that everybody beyond that stopped listening. Senator john kennedy said this and it kind of Segues A Comment by trump into the biden administration. Watch. All we get out of washington is more indictments on President Trump and all the sleaze surrounding hunter biden and david weiss. No wonder the American People have started to hate government. I mean, nobody is trusting you see these polls, nicole, and nobody has trust in these institutions that are so value in our country. And that is quite a shame and that is when there is a threat to our democracy. We need to have an unbias criminal Justice System. We have not seen that. I have spoken to former colleagues theyre treating President Trump as if hes on the fbi top 10 most wanted list. You know what . Hes not. The vigor in which theyre investing, one indictment after another, is not reasonable at this point. It seems extremely excessive. Im one who believes hold people accountable no matter where you stand on the political spectrum. Look at hunter biden and his family, they skate on by and thats not far. Trace hunter biden text message april 12, 2018, quoting, my dad has been using most lines on this account which i, through the great offers of eric sha waring, seth to go before the House Oversight committee, have paid for the last 11 years. The another damning piece of evidence the media is largely ignoring. Your final thoughts . Right whats going to happen as a result, is anyone going to be held accountable thinks special counsel, david weiss on the case is he going to do anything and actually charge hunter biden. Because as of right now we see no substantial charges. The plea deal fell apart and im curious to see what happened. Trace im curious as well. Nicole parker great to have you on as always thank you. Thank you. Trace union saying the brazen Smash And Grab robberies is because of no cash bail meaning the suspects who ransacked the nordstroms for Hundreds Of Thousands might be right on the street if they get caught. Marianne rafferty is back. Reporter draw dropping the way to describe it, in just one week Los Angeles County has seen so two socalled flash somebody Smash And Grab robberies, lapd searching for two dozen suspects who looted nearly 1,000 of merchandise from a nordstroms store. What has occurred is unacceptable, and those that are committing these crimes will be held accountable. Reporter but a Union Representing lapd officers says that accountability rarely ever comes and blames the citys controversial zero cash bail no the surge in smash and grash robberies. A spokesperson for the union tells Fox Digital The Elimination of cash bill for these kind of offenses those that break the law so brazenly pushes them over to say hey if im going to be caught ill be right out again. They tell fox 1500 people have been affected since the court rule to reinstate cash bill and of those 226 have been released and rearrested for committing crimes. And that has rapper 0. 50 posting to his instagram, quote, i told you la was finished. Across the u. S. Organized retail crime has cost businesses over 100 billion. Trace. Trace crazy maryanne. Lets bring in Wendy Patrick and sheriffs deputy Meagan Mccarthy. Welcome to you both. I look at this video and we put it up on the screen again because i was kind of astonished when i first saw this went i didnt have. You know its a retail game and exactly what theyre going after but a fun fact when you look at this and think, okay, this is not just retail gangs and Robert Luna The Sheriff in la county said the following, quoting, theres individuals here that have been released, not these nordstrom, that have been released talking about zero bail across the thing, released on zero bail and turned around and committed murder in the last several weeks. So its not just gangs or shoplifters, there are serious deadly people getting out and doing nefarious thing. You know, for a lot of criminals, zero bail means zero consequence. You know, Second Chances are for first offenders not repeat criminals. I hear these things being referred to as flash mob mentality. These are orchestrated preplanned sophisticated events. They are targeted, targeted for the resale value of what they steal, in public areas, highend stores, luxury items. So this is anything but spontaneous its sophisticated and preplanned. I know meghan is a former deputy and also victim of crime. The former sheriff of la county Alex Villanueva and i want to show you this video from Hacienda Heights yesterday. This is a woman who had perfect purse stolen and she was dragged across the street by this person who got away and thats the whole concept here meghan is these people are not being put in jail. Exactly. I mean, when you have such low numbers for the police, i mean, lapd has seen under nine you this thousand cops the low nest two decades. Youre asking them to do the work of a hundred cops so how can they be proactive against crimes when they have to react to situations and the criminal Justice System isnt even having their backs to prosecute the crimes. Its amazing because the warnings are going out, the