Sexual Misconduct in K-12 Public Schools
What Policy Professionals, Parents, and Lawmakers Need to Know (And What They Can Do) Sexual misconduct has become front and center of many conversations about child-rearing, including social media, the…
Long Beach Unified School District’s ethnic studies course includes “suggested” activity on “rape culture”
Long Beach Unified School District’s high school ethnic studies course outline includes discussing “sexual discrimination/harassment, human trafficking, birth control, abortion, rape, and domestic violence” as part of a “Gender Identities”…
5 Things to Know About Ethnic Studies
At Defending Education, we are troubled by the blatant antisemitic responses to the ongoing crisis in Israel on display here in the United States. Unfortunately, the hatred that fuels much…
Placentia-Yorba Linda School Board votes to adopt parental notification policy
School board politicians throughout Orange County are increasingly looking at adopting policies that require school staff to alert parents if their children are transgender – or alert parents to mental…
Immediately after attack on Israel, Revere Public Schools superintendent sends email to staff promoting resource that claims “Israeli terrorism has been significantly worse than that of the Palestinians”
A concerned community member reached out to Parents Defending Education regarding an email that the superintendent of Revere Public Schools sent to staff on October 9, 2023. The email specifically…
AMERICAN FAMILY NEWS: ‘Privilege’ is the priority for many public schools
A national grassroots organization working to reclaim schools from harmful agendas has concerns about the training materials required for teachers in a Kentucky school district.
THE OHIO STAR: School District Paid Thousands to Organization Linked to Merrick Garland for Surveys Asking Kids Their Feelings About Race
Colorado Springs School District 11 (CSSD) paid tens of thousands of dollars for surveys asking students how often they think about the “experiences” of someone of a different race or…
THE OHIO STAR: Schools Cannot Ban ‘Merely Offensive’ Speech on Gender Identity, Appeals Court Rules
Fifty-six years after it exempted antiwar teenagers from First Amendment protections while on campus, a federal appeals court in America’s heartland affirmed students’ speech rights in public schools on an…
Colorado Springs School District 11 has paid Panorama Education over $200,000 for services and surveys; surveys ask students about issues regarding race and ethnicity
Parents Defending Education submitted a public records request to Colorado Springs School District 11 seeking contracts and invoices that the district has with Panorama Education, as…