Emails reveal plans to integrate LGBTQ curriculum into elementary school during SEL lessons; $25K grant secured to secure “Rainbow Liaison at EVERY school” in Howard County Public Schools
A 3rd grade elementary school instructional team leader and “RAINBOW representative” in the Howard County Public School System sent an email to colleagues full of excitement about plans to…
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AP Biology teacher in Howard County: “Biological sex is NOT BINARY.”
Before the start of the school year, science teachers at a high school in the Howard County Public School System were required to attend a meeting related to the…
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Los Alamitos Unified School District administers survey to middle and high schoolers that inquires about their gender identity, asks if they want the school to separate students by race
The Los Alamitos Unified School District in California sent middle and high schoolers a survey inquiring about students’ gender identity and whether or not the school should increase its diversity…
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Uncommon Schools encourages staff to stop using words like “mother,” “father,” “boy” and “girl”
According to several staff members at Uncommon Schools, a charter network in Boston, teachers were required to take a class on “inclusive terms” that are “gender-neutral” to avoid “erasing women…
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THE WASHINGTON TIMES: Texas moms petition school board to remove 90 ‘pornographic books’
More than 1,500 parents have signed a petition by Texas mothers calling their school board to remove 90 “pornographic books” from children’s library shelves in the Keller Independent School District.
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TOWNHALL: Texas School Board Says Parents Should be Ashamed for Criticizing Sexually Explicit Library Books Online
A Texas school board has attributed the spread of sexually explicit material in books shelved at one of its school libraries to parents who have protested the books on social…
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West Hartford publishes “elementary social justice lessons standards and mentor texts;” transgender content introduced in Kindergarten
Parents from West Hartford contacted us at Parents Defending Education because of concern over the district’s focus on group identities in grades K through 5, including transgender content in kindergarten.
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DAILY CALLER: Texas School Board President Slams Parents For Protesting Pornographic Books
The president of the board of trustees of a Texas school district attacked parents who protested pornographic books that were available in school libraries.
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Las Cruces publishes policy draft in the name of being “gender inclusive”; includes changes to curriculum, student records and restroom access
Las Cruces Public Schools is following the national trend around the issue of gender identity and gender expansiveness in schools. They have published a draft of a policy titled, “Gender…
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