Defending Education’s mission is to educate and support parents who wish to advocate for their children’s K-12 education and defend their rights as secured by law. Financial and other…
Help Defending Education keep winning against ideological activists in your kids’ schools
Classrooms should be a place of learning — not a platform for political activism. To help Defending Education continue leading the fight to restore a healthy, non-political education…
Denver Public Schools has mandatory ethnic studies curriculum for ninth grade students that teaches them to embrace collectivism over individualism; teaches students that gender exists on a spectrum; teaches students to “dismantle systems of power”
Parents Defending Education obtained the curriculum to a ninth grade “Introduction to Ethnic Studies” course for the 2023-2024 school year at Denver Public Schools. PDE was told by a…
Natick Public Schools has policy that appears to keep gender identity of students hidden from parents
Natick Public Schools has a policy in place titled “Gender Identity Support” that was adopted on October 15, 2018. The policy states that students can participate in school activities…
Baltimore County Public Schools’ teacher scholarship program limited to students who are ‘black, indigenous, a person of color (BIPOC) and/or women pursuing a teaching certificate in STEM’
Baltimore County Public Schools (BCPS), in partnership with the Baltimore County Government and the Education Foundation of Baltimore County Public Schools, Inc, is offering students who are…
Parents Defending Education v. U.S. Department of Education
In the nineteen months since PDE filed its public records request, the U.S. Department of Education has not produced any responsive records and refused to provide an estimated timeline for…
North Middle School displays band sign that promotes gender ideology to students
On February 25, 2024, the organization Minnesota Parents Alliance posted on X that “every child who enters the band room at North Middle School in…
Roosevelt Elementary School provides lesson to fifth grade students on “white privilege”; tells students that “white people have more privilege”
On February 23, 2024, Roosevelt Elementary School of the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District posted on X that fifth grade students learned about “white privilege”…
UNDER INVESTIGATION OCR COMPLAINT: Middleton-Cross Plains Area School District
On February 24, 2024, Parents Defending Education (PDE) filed a federal civil rights complaint with the U.S. Department of Education against Middleton-Cross Plains Area School District (“Middleton” or “the…