FOX NEWS: Thousands of students ditch class as anti-ICE protests surge in 2026, watchdog warns
Defending Education warned educators are losing ‘control’ of the classroom by allowing students to leave school for left-wing protests…
AMERICAN FAMILY NEWS: School choice opposition fueled by union interests, former teacher says
School choice refers to policies that allow public education funds to follow students to their chosen educational setting. This could be a public, charter, private, religious, or homeschool setting.
THE NATIONAL NEWS DESK: Supreme Court blocks California law on gender disclosure in schools
Jan Jeffcoat sits down with Senior Director of Communications at Defending Education, Erika Sanzi, to discuss the Supreme Court blocking school gender secrecy, bringing insight and context to the stories…
FOX NEWS: Minnesota middle school teaches eighth graders ICE ‘harassed’ migrants in geography class curriculum
Hermantown Middle School in Minnesota showed slides about ‘Trump’s $170B deportation machine’ and offered extra credit for anti-ICE video…
JUST THE NEWS: School district secretly promoted medicalized gender transitions for 8th graders: parent group
Refusing to notify parents and let them opt out their kids from health lesson, which celebrates girl who used chest binder and took testosterone to look like boy, likely violates…
JUST THE NEWS: CIA’s historic retraction of intel reports exposes political bias in Obama-Biden spy agencies
Internal emails from NSBA itself that were released by the Parents Defending Education activist group show top members of the NSBA had been consulting with the Biden White House about…
THE NATIONAL NEWS DESK: Minnesota school faces backlash over immigration enforcement lesson plan
Jan Jeffcoat sits down with Senior Director of Communications at Defending Education, Erika Sanzi, to discuss how a Minnesota geography lesson is sparking backlash, bringing insight and context to the…
AMERICAN FAMILY NEWS: Minnesota middle school caught teaching biased anti-ICE lessons
Newsweek reports that a geography class at Hermantown Middle School in northern Minnesota is teaching about current events relating to ICE through a liberal lens. The lesson is a part…
NEWSWEEK: School Teaches That ICE Agents Use ‘Violent’ Tactics
A middle school in Minnesota has drawn public attention after teaching eighth grade students in a geography class about allegations that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) uses “tricky and violent…