Cracked Foundations
What is Cracked Foundations? In 2021, Parents Defending Education created the Consultant Report Card as a means to expose how tax dollars were being spent by school districts…
Farragut Middle School Hosts Race-Based Affinity Groups for Students
Farragut Middle School in the Westchester School District sent a letter home to families about its plans to again host race-based affinity groups. The group is for students who…
Anchorage School District has book accessible to students that teaches them how to perform oral sex
Parents Defending Education received a report that the sexually graphic book This Book Is Gay is available in elementary, middle, and high schools in the Anchorage School District. On…
Taft School faculty acknowledge their “whiteness;” admissions group crafts “optimal platform to create the ideal student body”
The Taft School, an elite co-ed boarding and day high school in Watertown, Conn., offers an “affinity” group to faculty and staff…
Council Bluffs Community School District Used CASEL’s Social Emotional Learning Framework and Panorama Student Surveys
Council Bluffs Community School District in Council Bluffs, Iowa, used Panorama Student Surveys in 2017 as part of their CASEL Social Emotional Learning initiative. Social Emotional Learning continues today in…
Cracked Foundations: Columbus City Schools (OH)
Granting Foundation: Wallace Foundation Grants Total: $1,790,000 US News and World Report Test Score Proficiency: In 2021, Columbus City Schools was awarded a $1,890,000 introductory grant in order…
THE IOWA STANDARD: LINN-MAR UPDATE: Protect parents’ right to raise children without government interference
The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel and Vice President of Appellate Advocacy John Bursch regarding a friend-of-the-court brief ADF attorneys filed Thursday with the…
18 States and 47 Advocacy Organizations File Amicus Briefs in Parents Defending Education v. Linn-Mar Community School District
Linn-Mar’s policy violates parents’ fundamental right “to direct the upbringing of their children”— “perhaps the oldest of the fundamental liberty interests recognized by [the Supreme] Court.” Troxel,…
THE WASHINGTON POST: School culture war campaigns fall flat in some tight races
This week’s election results called into question the power of culture war education politics, as a string of Republicans who leaned into the issue lost close races or were trailing…