New Trier Township High School District 203 equity liaison signed up for training sessions on “exploring justice for Palestine” and “settler colonialism”; journalism students were encouraged to use sources funded by the government of Qatar
Parents Defending Education submitted a public records request to the New Trier Township High School District 203 seeking emails from staff regarding Israel. One email that PDE received was…
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Arlington Public Schools English Teacher Agitates in District and Classroom about Gaza War; Assigns Biased Projects to Students; Accuses Israel of Settler-Colonialism and Genocide; Notes She Donates to Hamas-linked Charity
Emails obtained via public records request highlight Arlington Public Schools high school English teacher Shayma Al-Hanooti inserting the Israel-Palestine conflict into many aspects of classroom teaching, as well as…
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Oakland Unified School District employee accused Israel of “apartheid” and “massacre”; teacher linked to Hayward Unified School District’s ethnic studies program claimed students need to be taught anti-Israel rhetoric to become “active voters”
Parents Defending Education submitted a public records request to the Oakland Unified School District seeking emails that board members both sent and received regarding Israel and a “…
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Nipher Middle School social studies teacher displays Palestinian flag in classroom; refuses to display Israeli flag
On August 20, 2024, the newspaper St. Louis Jewish Light reported that a Palestinian flag is displayed in an eighth-grade social studies classroom at Nipher…
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Dearborn Public Schools superintendent wrote letter telling staff to encourage students “not to pick sides” after Hamas attacked Israel; teacher appears to be reprimanded for stating “Palestine” is not a country
Parents Defending Education submitted a public records request to Dearborn Public Schools seeking emails from the district’s superintendent and board members regarding Israel for the first couple of weeks…
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Renton high school teacher says in a personal statement to the local teachers’ union that he and two colleagues do not condemn Hamas
In documents obtained through a public records request, Parents Defending Education discovered an email dated November 13, 2023 from a teacher who states, in writing, the he…
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NATIONAL REVIEW: Washington Schoolteacher: ‘Do I Condemn Hamas? No.’
A high school teacher in Washington State’s Renton School District sent education officials a statement in November “regarding . . . condemning the attacks by Hamas,” parental-rights organization Parents…
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DAILY MAIL: Schools EXPOSED for spending $160K on lawyers to spin antisemitism problem, not textbooks
One of America’s biggest school districts spent $157,000 of taxpayer’s money to prepare a board member to speak about its antisemitism problem, casting doubt on its commitment to education,…
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Montgomery County Public Schools paid over $156K to prepare for a Congressional K-12 Antisemitism Hearing
PDE filed a public records request to determine how much Montgomery County Public Schools spent preparing for board of education chairman Karla Silvestre to testify before the House…
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