House Republicans are about to put K-12 schools under an antisemitism microscope

Republican lawmakers incensed over antisemitism on college campuses are now directing their wrath at elementary and high school administrators.

School officials from California, New York and Maryland are set to testify before a House Education and the Workforce subcommittee on Wednesday to address what conservatives describe as a streak of hateful rhetoric in K-12 schools that’s intensified during the Israel-Gaza conflict.

The magnitude of the campus protests, the myriad ways school leaders have responded to them and House Republicans’ ability to tap into concerns about antisemitism have plunged higher education into a...