Seattle Public Schools promotes “Stolen Land Acknowledgement” and “Stolen Black & Brown Labor Acknowledgement” in training presentation; provides training to “dismantle dominant cultural norms”
Parents Defending Education received 455 pages of documents from a public records request to Seattle Public Schools that contain training provided to teachers. One training session in the documents appears…
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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 Republican…
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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 Public…
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National Council for the Social Studies encourages teachers to submit ideas for how LGBTQ issues can be implemented into elementary school curriculum
The National Council for the Social Studies sent out an email on August 1st, 2023 labeled “Call for Content” with the goal of adding LGBTQ issues into the curriculum of…
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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 is…
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WASHINGTON EXAMINER: Jim Banks demands Cardona investigate Chinese influence in K-12 schools
Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) called for Education Secretary Miguel Cardona to order a Department of Education investigation into the Chinese Communist Party’s influence on the nation’s K-12 schools following a…
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FOX NEWS: ‘Alarming evidence’ links China’s Communist Party to American K-12 schools, anti-indoctrination group claims
Parents Defending Education says ‘Little Red Classrooms’ report should concern Americans…
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Pitt County Schools classroom lesson describes Democrats as “blue collar” and “secular” and Republicans as “white collar” and “religious.”
Parents Defending Education found an interesting lesson on politics for students on the website for Pitt County Schools. The lesson’s presentation is titled “Unit 3…
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North Kingstown High School receives $10,000 grant to create “LGBTQ+ inclusive curriculum”
The “It Gets Better Project” continued its program in 2023 to provide $10,000 grants to schools throughout the United States and now Canada to implement LGBTQ initiatives for…
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