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Absenteeism. Then, no parent should ever wonder what is being said or talked talk to their child in te classroom. Parents come in on the government should be responsible for determining the education of their children bricks. Shannon gop cannot slip to take a put page out of Glenn Youngkin playbook we will ask celinda lake and kellyanne, what Role Education may play in the next election. Quicksand. Good to see a. Are the feds handling the challenges facing students . From the failing and National Report card map scores, reading scores, down. This is very bad for the future of the country. Shannon over Credit Classrooms strained by a surge of migrants progress we are welcoming all these new migrants into our schools with open arms a bit. To the return of mask mandates. Has School Districts in maryland now imposing k and 95 masked mandates on schoolchildren . Are you kidding me . We will discuss with Becky Pringle president of the National Education association the nations Largest Labor union. Plus piglets 6880 plus 27000. Shannon would explain why it more and more families are choosing to homeschool and ask the things Everyone Wants to know. What about the question you always get are they getting socialized . Shannon out right now Fox News Sunday goes inside the state of education. Hello from Foxnews In Washington we begin with some breaking news. Rescue crews are struggling to get to the roads and rebels to search for survivors after a massive earthquake hit morocco this week and killing more than 2000 people and injuring over 2000 more. The quake causing major damage in the city of marrakesh. Some of the aftermath. The biggest quake at two at the North African country in decades but fox news Foreign Correspondent trey yingst joins us live from casablanca. Quick shannon, good morning paid more than 2000 people are dead. Many still missing after a massive 6. 8 magnitude earthquake rocked morocco on friday evening. Overnight Rescue Workers continuing their tedious efforts to find survivors under the rubble for the moroccan government has deployed specialized Military Units to the epicenter of this quake that sits just to the southwest of the city of marrakesh. We do note those soldiers wont just be digging through debris they are setting up Field Hospitals and housing for the now thousands of Displaced Moroccans of aging of a sense of the terrain in this area, the bulk of the destructors or the base or within the high Atlas Mountains so Rescue Workers will need time to get to some of these more remote villages big earthquakes are rare in morocco this was the largest tremor to hit inside the country in 120 years. The initial shaking was felt all the way in portugal was followed by a number of aftershocks. More funerals were held today for the victims in this disaster as King Muhammad the sixth has declared a three day period good morning we are all still in this critical 48 hour period following the earthquake in southern morocco with each passing hour and the probability that people are pulled out alive decreases. Back to you. Shannon trey yingst reporting for morocco thank you very much will continue to monitor that and helping sort turn out to the state of education here in the u. S. There is a debate in this country about the role that schools should play in american life. What say should parents have about what their children are learning . How much information should educators be required to give parents about their childrens experiences behind Classroom Doors . Those are some of the questions we will attempt to answer today. But first Mike Emmanuel reports from the Virginia Suburbs just outside washington d. C. Which has become ground zero in the fight over schools. Shame on you for. Moms and dads are during the pandemic were alarmed by covid restrictions for what they felt like was a political agenda in their schools. And virginia Glenn Youngkin recognize the harbor and run for governor in 2021 on empowering parents. Becoming the first republican to win statewide and what had become Blue Virginia and stu thousand nine. Creating a new political playbook for other republicans to follow in swing states or where democrats are dominant. Glenn youngkin had new policies insisting students use bathrooms and locker rooms matching the birth of Gend Gender Increasingl notification requirements. Parents should be the absolute primary advisor to close them out of this does not make any Sense Piglets in several districts the blue Northern Virginia suburbs, Fairfax County Prince William county, arlington and alexandria Glenn Youngkin has encountered some resistance per. They are worried their names, pronounce impact their very identity will no longer be honored at school. A recent foxpro reveals more than half believe theres not enough focus on reading, writing, math and science. While close to half believe theres too much focus on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity. Fairfax county schools are defined the states of transGender Policies. The superintendent argues the local Gender Policies comply with the federal and state antidiscrimination laws. This showdown could end up in court. Shannon and Mike Emmanuel reporting from virginia thank you very much joining is now here in washington Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin welcome back to Fox News Sunday. Good morning. Thanks for having me and happy anniversary. Its your First Anniversary of your show what a great accomplishment. Shannon i hope thats a good sign thank you much governor. Struck by the headlight i saw a few days ago it says this democrats and republicans have been talking about School Reform for years while everything has gotten worse but this is written by english teacher in dallas he says republicans are marginally better than democrats but they really had not articulated a clear vision on this issue. What can your party do better . Whats lets just begin with the fact theres nothing more important than ensuring a quality education for our children the future of virginia, the future of america will be built by then and they need to be prepared to take on the challenges take advantage of the opportunities that are ahead of them. When i came into the rose governor virginia was elected in novembnovember 2021. I came into a virginia that had been at the heart of the parents matter movement. And what we saw of course was the first first of all an efforo systematically lower expectations by the Progressive Left as the standards were lowered on top of that parents are pushed out of their childrens lives. And on top of that schools were shut for an unnecessary period of time virginia was 44th in the nation getting kids back into school. The Learning Loss as a result has been catastrophic. So we went to work right away first raising expectations and a second, empowering parents make sure they are at the head of the table in the childrens lives. And finally the fact we have to combat this persistent Learning Loss virginia at which used to have the best schools, all the sudden it was ranked the bottom of the pack in fourth grade reading and math and Learning Loss. We have launched a high intensity tutoring program in order to help her to clear third through eighth graders regained what they have lost. We have got a whole generation at risk we need to go to work right now. We have been clear in our policies we have been systematic and moving forward. And i think we owe it to these children who will infect define our future. Shannon you mentioned this weekly test scores came and were not great theres Room For Improvement and virginia as there is in many places you talked about this program you launch there are critics out there, not surprisingly the head of the virginia Education Association James Fetterman says this, after two years all he has a shows a string of bungled proposals, and midstream scandals, proposed budget with cuts to 12 spending and a second year end stagnating test results. Are the challenges bigger than you anticipated is that a fair criticism . Ask first if i want to step back and say as we came in as a new administration, what we inherited was a group of children who had been infected damaged by schools closed and lowered expectations. And of course what is clear third through eighth graders had never been taught the foundational elements that were going to underpin the rest of their education. And so the Learning Loss was not only deep but it was persistent. Therefore we have got to put politics down and go to work. That is why this High Intensity Program is important is three five hours a week of tutoring for reading and math in the classroom either before, during the day or after the School Systems get to decide its not going to cost families a penny. Its being funded by the state and we have this moment where we see almost two thirds of our third through eighth graders at risk or failing their math standards. More than half at risk to fail or failing their reading standards. There is no time for political jargon its time to go to work and we have got to get this done now we have a whole generation is at risk for. Aware of this to be a bipartisan discussion today we repeatedly asked the u. S. Secretary of education to come and join us on the show we were turned down we offered a Pretaped Interview W were turned down for that. I has been out on a bit of a backtoschool tour going to play you a little bit of what he says about republicans for. We have a party that is bent on creating division so they could privatize schools. Shannon that division shows up in toxic disrespect for lgbtq people. You are banning books he says that is your party. I believe this is representative of what the Progressive Left has been championing which is the first you dont know is good for your children were going to push parents and other kids life. Second of all we are going to emphasize equal outcomes over excellence make sure all children get the same education when in fact we know onesizefitsall means one size fits none. And finally on top of that no one can argue with the fact that we have seen catastrophic Learning Loss across this country because of bad policies by the Progressive Left. This is not a political statement it is common sense. And on top of that one of the Biggest Challenges we see in virginia and across the countr countrys chronic absenteeism. What they taught our kids and families was being not in school, thinking a 12inch screen was a quality education was okay. But what we know is it is not okay and weve got to get kids back in the classroom weve got to give them intensive support weve got to rescue this generation is at risk. Shannon lets talk about some of the policies your administration has put forward Mike Emmanuel is reporting that some the controversial ones there were you given guidance to School Districts they need to have kids using facilities and a functioning with the gender assigned at birth and also parents have to approve of a minor student is asking for changes to names and pronouns, those kinds of things a judge in new jersey as black similar policies parents are backing up there he says hes worried about evidence of Mental Health issues, suicide, illicit drug dependency affliction of emotional harm by immediate Family Members for students who arwereforced to reveal leasing o first of all, do you acknowledge those potential risk . Second give a number of districts who sit are not going to complain or can you enforce it . Let me just start where our policies are rested its empowering parents to be engaged in their childrens lives. The previous policy specifically excluded parents and we know this is not right. A child Cannot Go On A Field Trip without parental consent a child in school cannot get an aspirin or a tylenol without parental consent how in the world is it appropriate for a child to be guided and counseled by folks outside of their family on these most important issues when they are questioning their identity at school . Parents must be at the head of the table this isnt controversy of the issue at hand is of course there are protections in place if there is abuse at home. Those protections are appropriate. This is where the argument becomes politicized luster start the truth. Family counseling is the most effective counseling. Parents have a right in Virginia Fundamental right to make decisions with regards to their childs education, their upbringing and their care it is clear we are going to make sure parents have that right and finally the School Divisions that are thinking they have a choice here, dont our Attorney General came out with a very, very clear opinion that it is in code, passed by the Previous Administration and signed by the previous democrat governor. I will issue model policies the schools will adopt a policy is consistent with those. There is no choice here the old toys they have is to adopt policies that are exactly the ones we have laid out for ones that are consistent with them. Unfortunately they have been mistaken in their belief and they need to go back and adopt policies consistent with the ones we have passed. Shannon in winchester or the sprinters made headlines. A lot of people member the case that showed on the Loudoun County which is outside d. C. Here he had a daughter who had been sexually assaulted. He went to a school board was demanding information trying to get answers. It got pretty heated at one point he actually got arrested his name is scott smith. He expressed frustration this fe summary found is going to have to face trout this fall on a remaining charge he said ive yet to hear from our governor Glenn Youngkin is your administration in contact with him about his case . Once we are in contact with him in fact they spo i spoke with mh on friday. At the privilege of telling mr. Smith i would pardon him and we did that on friday. We rented a wrong he never shouldve been prosecuted here. This was a dad standing up for his daughter. Just to remind everyone his daughter had been sexually assaulted in the bathroom of a school and no one was doing anything about it. In fact it took the election of a new governor, me and my directive to our Attorney General to investigate this to uncover the fact the superintendent had in fact covered it up. He was immediately terminated when the final report from the grand jury was issued. Mr. Smith did what any father would do any parent would do was stand up for their child. And even worse with then happened was the perpetrator was moved to another school and sexually assaulted another young woman. This was a gross miscarriage of justice are so pleased to speak with him on friday be able to issue a full pardon for him. Youve talked a lot about virginias fall elections everyone is up for reelection in the state Assembly Said that it should focus for now but the Wall Street Journal notes this if the november 7 elections go well for his party could make a late entry for 2024 president ial race the prospect he has not ruled out. Some National Republicans have pined for, one player little bit of an add your pack head up earlier this year. We can usher in a new era of american values. Shannon is not a campaign at You Cannandyou Cannot Run Againr governor in virginia, when he thinking about 2024 are you definitively ruling it in or out . She and ive been really clear them so focus on 2023 its the most important election in the nation in my view we have a chance to demonstrate common sense conservative policies can in fact result in great outcomes. When i look at whats happened in virginia over the last 19 months is with a great privilege of being hired, i am so encouraged. We have all the sudden gun from near the bottom of j