Leaders of education and parents rights groups across the country sounded off after first lady Jill Biden claimed that her husband, President Biden, will always be “the education president.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“I knew that Joe would always be the education president, because he knows that \u2026 the success of our nation starts with you, the educators who shape our students’ lives,” Jill Biden told a crowd at the 2023 NEA teacher\u2019s union\u2019s annual meeting on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The first lady\u2019s comment sparked criticism from education leaders across the country who took issue with the president\u2019s record on education, including Sheri Few, president and founder of United States Parents Involved in Education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“In light of who her audience was, she was probably 100% accurate when it comes to Biden supporting the liberal NEA agenda,” Few told Fox News Digital in a statement. “Biden is THE most anti-parent education president in the history of this country! And he is THE education president that carries the water for the NEA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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First lady Jill Biden speaks at the American Federation of Teachers’ headquarters in Pittsburgh in support of local candidates, Nov. 2, 2022. (AP Photo\/Gene J. Puskar)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“He is THE education president whose Department of Justice wanted to label parents as domestic terrorists for objecting to pornography and critical Marxist theories in schools.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Few continued, “He is THE education president whose Press Secretary insisted that trans kids are \u2018our kids\u2019 and \u2018belong to all of us.\u2019 And he is THE education president who said, \u2018There is no such thing as someone else\u2019s child\u2026 Our nation\u2019s children are all our children.\u2019”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jill Biden\u2019s comment comes shortly after the “Nation\u2019s Report Card” showed that reading and math scores for 13-year-olds dipped to their lowest rate in decades exacerbated by school closures that Biden\u2019s critics said he encouraged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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President Biden delivers remarks during a joint press conference with U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak at the White House on June 8, 2023. (Kevin Dietsch\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“If being the education president means sharing a bed with the teachers’ unions, locking children out of their schools for over a year and vilifying their parents for objecting, and subsequently, presiding over the total evaporation of two decades of progress in reading and math, then yes, the title fits perfectly, and he deserves a crown,” Erika Sanzi, director of outreach at Parents Defending Education and a former educator, told Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dr. Jameson Taylor, American Family Association senior fellow and director of policy for AFA Action, told Fox News Digital that Biden had a “once-in-a-generation opportunity” to become “the education president” but ultimately “failed America\u2019s kids.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Instead, Biden took the easy way out of enabling the mediocre status quo,” Taylor said. “He has also failed to prioritize the things that matter \u2013 reading, writing and math \u2013 and is preoccupied with making every school in the country comply with CRT and transgender ideologies that are compromising student safety<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Leaders of education and parents rights groups across the country sounded off after first lady Jill Biden claimed that her husband, President Biden, will always be “the education president.” “I knew that Joe would always be the education president, because he knows that \u2026 the success of our nation starts with you, the educators who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":15208,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[9585,3719,1169,9588,9586,9587],"class_list":["post-15207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-american-kids","tag-bashing","tag-biden","tag-education-president","tag-first-lady","tag-parent-rights-group"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15209,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15207\/revisions\/15209"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}