Bias Response Systems
Number of states that have them: 22 plus District of Columbia Number of total school districts: 115 Number of total schools: 4,565 Number of total students: 2,492,241 (Scroll to…
City of Newburyport agrees to pay parents group $10K after mayor removes their fliers from public bulletin boards
The city of Newburyport, MA has agreed to pay $10,000 to parent group Citizens for Responsible Education in the wake of the mayor’s removal of the group’s flyers from public…
Essex Westford School District provides teachers with resources to implement LGBTQ issues into lessons taught to students as young as pre-kindergarten
The Essex Westford School District has a page online titled “Resources for Teachers/Professional Staff.” Multiple resources offered to teachers are to help implement LGBTQ issues into…
Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act: What Parents Need to Know About FERPA
FERPA (formally known as the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act) is a federal law that was passed in 1974 with the purpose of protecting educational information and records from…
Fairfax County Public Schools ‘Student Rights and Responsibilities’ guide for families and videos violate Virginia’s model policies
Fairfax County Public Schools’ “Student Rights & Responsibilities” guide, as well as a supporting videos titled “Student Rights and Responsibilities: Your Rights (Elementary) FY23,” appear to inform…
Parents Defending Education receives communications involving Huwaida Arraf speaking at Bloomfield Hills High School; one goal of diversity event was to learn “how can minorities overcome ignorance”
Political activist Huwaida Arraf spoke at the Bloomfield Hills School District discussing controversial opinions regarding Israel on March 14, 2023. She spoke at the school district…
Howard County Public School System provides teachers with “mandatory training video” that tells them to adopt the district’s controversial Black Lives Matter curriculum
On August 20, 2023, Inside The Classroom reported on X (formerly Twitter) that the Howard County Public School System provided a “mandatory training video” to teachers…
Help Defending Education restore a healthy, non-political education in K-12 and Higher Ed
Classrooms in K-12 schools and on college campuses should be places of learning — not platforms for political activism in front of a captive audience. But today, a small group of ideological…
THE BLAZE: School district enforces ‘restorative justice’ discipline approach, discourages suspensions: ‘Building empathy & celebrating diversity’
A California school district is moving away from disciplining misbehaving students with suspensions. Instead, it is enforcing a “restorative justice” approach that focuses on “building empathy & celebrating diversity,” according…