Testimony of Nicole Neily, Defending Ed President and Founder, before the U.S. House Education and Workforce Subcommittee Hearing on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education
“From Playground to Classroom: The Spread of Antisemitism in K-12 Schools” Chairman Kiley, Ranking Member Bonamici, and distinguished members of the subcommittee: thank you for inviting me. My name is…
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UNDER INVESTIGATION: Defending Ed files civil rights complaint against Contoocook Valley High School District for Title IX and Equal Protection violations
On March 31, 2026 the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights opened an investigation into this complaint. See the letter here. Defending Education (DE)…
OCR Complaints
If universities have stopped racial discrimination, why sue to block oversight?
In 2023, the Supreme Court issued one of the clearest and most important civil rights rulings in decades in the case, Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard. The court held…
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Welcome to the new high-school activism: One side chants, the other gets punished
As university-style speech intolerance spreads into K-12 schools, more student protesters now treat disagreement as something to crush, not debate.
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May Day’s Real Targets? America’s Students
May Day is coming – and with it are plans for “No work, no school, no purchasing.”…
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REQUEST TO REOPEN OCR Complaint: Los Angeles Unified School District
REQUEST TO REOPEN: On July 11, 2023, Defending Education filed a federal civil rights complaint with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) against Los Angeles Unified…
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K-12 Schools Need A ‘Moneyball’ Moment
With MLB Opening Day right around the corner, I took some time to revisit Michael Lewis’ “Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game.” If you’ve never read the book…
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Defending Ed Files Civil Rights Complaint Against Stanford University for National Board Resource Center BIPOC Cohort
For the past several years, Stanford’s National Board Resource Center (NBRC) has partnered with the California Teachers Association and the UCLA National Board Project to launch “fully-funded cohort[s] of Black,…
OCR Complaints
At Annual Meeting, Largest Teachers Union Admits It’s An Activist Front
At the National Education Association’s annual conference, leaders are doubling down on activism, not educating, in public schools.
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