Parents Defending Education

A school district in Colorado hired a self-proclaimed “genderqueer shapeshifter” and “witch” to conduct staff training on “transgender” issues.

Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (TJ), an elite public high school in Fairfax County, Virginia, has received over $1 million from Chinese interests in exchange for help developing similar schools in China.

The Wichita, Kansas, public school district trains teachers that not using a “preferred pronoun” with a “transgender”-identifying student “could lead to death,” according to a public records request.

The Department of Education “immediately and permanently” dissolved its “National Parents and Families Engagement Council” after conservative organizations sued.

A California school district is reportedly spending tens of thousands of dollars on an organization called “Woke Kindergarten,” which focuses on “supporting children, families, educators and organizations in their commitment to abolitionist early education and pro-black and queer and trans liberation.”

A psychology teacher in Arizona’s Scottsdale Unified School District (SUSD) taught students that only four percent of men and two percent of women are “exclusively heterosexual” and that “sexuality is a continuum,” according to a report.

California’s Norwalk-La Mirada Unified School District is looking at options for putting a Planned Parenthood on a local high school campus.

An art teacher at a Colorado middle school invited a 12-year-old girl to an afterschool club under the guise of it being about art, but it turned into a gender identity meeting in which the girl was told if she is “not 100% comfortable in her female body, she’s transgender.”

A civil rights complaint was filed with the U.S. Department of Education against a South Carolina middle school Thursday after the school planned racially segregated events to “talk with students about how to cope with being a student in a predominantly white school.”

Iowa City Community School District offers teacher trainings in “ethnomathematics” and queer “Herstory,” according to documents obtained by Parents Defending Education.

President Joe Biden celebrated “International Social Emotional Learning Day” Friday, saying, “I believe the government has a responsibility to support you.”

Vulnerable Democrat Rep. Tom Malinowski (D-NJ) appeared to go on a tirade against parents taking issue with what their children are learning in school, calling their concerns “made-up cultural bullshit” stemming from a “fringe movement.”

Embattled Virginia school district Fairfax County (FCPS) spent nearly $100,000 on a crisis management firm in 2020 to protect the “FCPS brand of being one of the best public school systems in the nation.”

The Wheeler School in Providence, Rhode Island, excluded white students from attending a guest speaker event, allowing only those who “identify as a student of color or multiracial” to attend.

Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) is looking to implement a surveillance and intelligence-gathering service to monitor student, parent, and teacher social media accounts for “hate speech” and “social media threats.”

A federal civil rights lawsuit brought by Parents Defending Education (PDE) against Massachusetts’s Wellesley Public Schools ended in a settlement Monday as the school district agreed to end its racial segregation policy and First Amendment violations.

A Pennsylvania school board membe penned an op-ed Sunday in which he told parents and residents of the community, “I don’t work for you.”

New documents released in a federal lawsuit against the Fairfax County, Virginia, school board over admissions to an elite high school reveal school board members knowingly pursued a policy discriminatory against Asian students.

A civil rights complaint was filed with the U.S. Department of Education against an Illinois high school after it hosted an allegedly racially-segregated “students of color field trip opportunity.”

A civil rights complaint was filed with the U.S. Department of Education against Denver Public Schools (DPS) after one of its elementary schools hosted a racially segregated “families of color playground night.”

Newton North High School Principal Henry Turner responded to the “not guilty” verdict in the Kyle Rittenhouse case by offering racially segregated spaces for the “many people in our school community … reeling from this verdict.”

Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) announced Tuesday they would reintroduce books with pornographic and pedophilic material “reaffirming [their] commitment to supporting diversity in literature,” according to a press release.

Fifteen state school boards associations have officially cut ties with the National School Boards Association (NSBA) after it sent a letter to the Department of Justice calling on the FBI to investigate concerned parents as “domestic terrorists.”

Young children in kindergarten are being taught about transgender ideology without an opt-out, say concerned parents in West Hartford, Connecticut.

House Republicans have demanded Biden Education Secretary Miguel Cardona turn over all communications with the National School Boards Association (NSBA), the Department of Justice (DOJ), and the White House regarding the letter NSBA sent to President Joe Biden asking him to target parents at school board meetings as possible “domestic terrorists.”

A whistleblower Tuesday revealed to the House Judiciary Committee that the FBI deployed “counterterrorism tools” to target concerned parents participating in local school board meetings.

House Judiciary Republicans disclosed a whistleblower showed FBI is using counterterrorism tactics to investigate parents, calling into question Garland’s sworn testimony.

The White House was “actively engaged” with the NSBA before its letter to President Joe Biden asking for parents to be targeted as possible “domestic terrorists.”

A national parents’ organization has named 26 state associations that have distanced themselves from the National School Boards Association (NSBA) since its top officials wrote to President Joe Biden requesting he use federal law enforcement to target parents voicing concerns about their children’s education as potential “domestic terrorists.”

The NSBA directors renounced the letter its top officials sent to Biden, asking him to target vocal parents at school board meetings for “domestic terrorism.”

Emails obtained through a public records request by Parents Defending Education (PDE) appear to indicate the top officers of the National School Boards Association (NSBA) worked with the White House prior to sending their September 29 letter to President Joe Biden requesting federal law enforcement assistance to target parents voicing concerns at local school board meetings.

Education advocacy group Parents Defending Education (PDE) filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against Wellesley Public Schools (WPS) in Massachusetts, alleging the school district participates in racial segregation and suppression of First Amendment rights.

Parents are outraged over the Biden DOJ’s plan to direct the FBI to mobilize against them as they advocate for their children.

Over 160 principals signed onto a pledge to “de-center whiteness” in schools by ending what they view as “white academic superiority.”

At least two teachers in Rhode Island who support the teachings of critical race theory did not receive the outcome they expected after they offered bonus points to students who chose to offer testimonies on an anti-critical race theory state House bill.