America’s children deserve to learn in a safe environment, and federal and state leaders must take more aggressive steps to identify and address dangerous school situations, Erika Donalds, chair of education opportunity at the America First Policy Institute, told Newsmax Saturday.
New government data shows that more than one million crimes were reported on school grounds between 2020 and 2024, and Donalds, appearing on Newsmax’s “Wake Up America Weekend,” said that many of the problems in today’s schools started with guidance from the Department of Education under former President Barack Obama.
“[It] allowed for lax discipline policies in our schools and a lack of reporting for violent crime, for assaults, for robberies on our school campuses,” said Donalds, the wife of Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla.
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