Irondequoit High School appears to back out of scholarship from Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy because his political beliefs are “controversial”; district has policy that explicitly states the goal is to turn students into “agents of change”
On July 31, 2023, parents with children at Irondequoit High School received an email about a scholarship that students could apply to for $25,000. The scholarship is sponsored by…
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Friendship Armstrong Elementary and Middle School promotes Black Lives Matter’s 13 guiding principles to students
On August 8, 2023, transgender activist and educator Nicholas Prosini posted on X (formerly Twitter) that Friendship Armstrong Elementary and Middle School of the Friendship…
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Poway Unified School District provides discipline training for staff that includes quizzes about swastikas and “Comparing Blacks to Monkeys”
Parents Defending Education received documents from a public records request submitted to the Poway Unified School District that contain training provided to staff. These documents contain questionable content, such…
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Austin Independent School District had supporting “social justice issues” and “race equity” as requirements for job position
Parents Defending Education received an email dated June 8, 2020, from a public records request to the Austin Independent School District that contained a document for a job description.
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Berkeley County School District establishes diversity office to implement “racial equity”
The Berkeley County School District has an “Office of Diversity” established in an effort to develop “goals and strategies for moving Berkeley County School District…
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Tucson Unified School District is using Learning for Justice’s Social Justice Standards to build “multicultural” curriculum for students
The Tucson Unified School District has a page online for the “Office of Curriculum and Instruction.” The district explains on this page that “our curriculum…
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Clarksville-Montgomery County School System provided staff with training that taught “white” and “Christian” people are privileged while a “person of color” and someone who is “polyamorous” are oppressed
Parents Defending Education submitted a public records request to the Clarksville-Montgomery County School System for material regarding the district’s 2023 “Engage” professional learning conference. PDE received a presentation from…
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FOX NEWS: Tennessee school district staff trained on how White Christians are privileged, polyamorous are oppressed
The Clarksville-Montgomery County School System held an ENGAGE conference on July 19th to train staff about ‘oppression’ and ‘privilege’…
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North Kansas City Schools has equity policy to “address the presence of all forms of oppression”; district intends to teach students to “value and practice racial equity”
On September 22, 2020, North Kansas City Schools adopted a policy titled “Educational Equity.” The policy states that diversity “requires that we work systemically to…
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