a presidential disaster declaration request for east palestine to the white house. so far they have not indicated whether or not the president will sign that. dana: thank you. bill: meanwhile the debate over trans fender policies ramp up in virginia. they refuse to follow guidelines on youngkin s gender identity issues. good morning to you. multiple school districts across northern virginia are not following the statewide policies governing how transgender students should be treated inside virginia public schools. we see five school districts across the commonwealth refuse to comply with the policies requiring students to use a bathroom which corresponds to their sex assigned at birth as opposed to the gender they currently identify with. the virginia department of education approved the changes this summer. some district say they will ignore this so they can follow
future. it comes as new fox new polls reveal what voters think schools should be focused on teaching in the classroom. i m john roberts, welcome to friday and to you. aishah: i m aishah hasnie in for sandra smith. voters of all political stripes are finding common ground on a couple of key issues. public schools should teach more about being a good citizen, less about gender identity issues. john: parents are protesting over transgender policies which prompted a court battle in one state andout right defiance by a school district in another. mark meredith joins us with more on all of this. how much are voters do we think focusing on education? john, quite a bit. seems like this issue has broken up ever since the pandemic. of course, always hot button issues in politics, but education has played a more prominent role in the daily debate and new fox news polling explains why. not enough time is spent on what
general overstate gender identity issues in schools. it is try to blackmail and scare us and other districts. they know other districts are scheduled to adopt hopefully this policy all throughout california. harris: that school board president sonia shaw is in focus next. st celebrity sale is happening now. and it s making quite the spectacle. for a limited time, get two pairs of celebrity-inspired frames by privé revaux co-founder jamie foxx for only $89.95 book your exam today.
be sending to our kids. ainsley: what do you say to the critics that say my child or these children can t go home and talk to their parents about this? these are conversations that should be happening outside of the school. there are concerns about gender identity issues. parents should be having those conversations with the kids. we launched american dads.org so parents could get in the fight and start pushing back. ainsley: kyle, thank you so much for coming on. thank you. ainsley: you are welcome. i will hand it oover to carley. carley: time for news by the numbers. sponsored by novartis. two days, that s how long prince harry on trial against mirror group newspapers. during his testimony, harry admitted he was not aware of any evidence that he was hacked by tabloids but the duke of sussex still insists if he lost his case it would be an injustice. next, 2 million. that is how many children will have access to free books thanks to dolly parton s imagination library. her
Churches and other religious organizations promote outdated ideologies that are contradictory to political beliefs of many young adults who tend to be liberal. This has cause religious affiliation of young