Tag: parental rights

Florida Tops in Parent Empowerment Ranking

WASHINGTON—The Heritage Foundation released its inaugural Education Freedom Report Card Friday, ranking Florida the highest and the District of Columbia the lowest among all states. Arizona and Idaho followed Florida as No. 2 and 3. Along with the District of Columbia, New Jersey and New York were at the bottom of the list. Lindsey Burke, director…


Heritage Foundation Releases Inaugural Education Freedom Report, Florida Ranks First

WASHINGTON—The Heritage Foundation released its inaugural Education Freedom Report Card Friday, ranking Florida the highest and the District of Columbia the lowest among all states. Arizona and Idaho followed Florida as No. 2 and 3. Along with the District of Columbia, New Jersey and New York were at the bottom of the list. Lindsey Burke, director…


Moms for Liberty Shares Tips for Fighting Transgender Curriculum

For Pflugerville Independent School District in Texas, it wasn’t enough to just ask children for preferred gender pronouns. The school also asked if teachers should hide preferred pronouns from parents. “If I ever have contact with your parent/guardians, may I use your preferred name and pronouns from above? (If not YES, please clarify in the…


Civil Rights Group Pushes States to Scrap Gender ‘Non-Disclosure’ Policies at Schools

A national civil rights group has urged the California government to revise policies that require teachers and other school staff to hide the gender identities of students as young as kindergarten from their parents if the child so wishes. The civil rights non-profit Foundation Against Intolerance & Racism (FAIR) has also advised Oregon, Vermont, and…


Parent Rights Group Fights Critical Race Theory with Anti-Union Campaign

To allow schools to be free of Critical Race Theory (CRT) parents must break the unions, parental rights activists say. This school year, Moms for Liberty leaders Tiffany Justice and Tina Descovich have mounted a nationwide campaign to end union control of schools. “Let’s start the new school year right—by ending the reign of the…


California’s Proposed Vaccine Laws Will Circumvent Parental Rights: Medical Freedom Group

Laura Sextro is the CEO of the Unity Project, an umbrella organization that connects groups across America that are fighting against vaccine mandates for children and for medical freedom and parental rights. The Unity Project is trying to prevent several California vaccine bills from becoming law. Sextro said these measures should alarm all parents because…


Parents Across the Board Support School Choice, Politicians Should Take Heed: Education Policy Expert

Corey DeAngelis, national director of research at the American Federation for Children (AFC), says parents across party lines share the sentiment that political candidates should advocate for parental rights and school choice, or face defeat in the November midterm elections. In an interview for NTD at FreedomFest 2022, DeAngelis said school choice is popular and politically advantageous,…


Indiana Asks Supreme Court to Speed up Abortion Ruling Paperwork so It Can Enforce Parental-Notification Law

Indiana filed an emergency application with the Supreme Court July 13 urging it to speed up the post-judgment paperwork after it reversed Roe v. Wade and remanded a related case so it can enforce abortion regulations put on hold by lower courts. The request comes as the states figure out how to deal with the…


Wisconsin Supreme Court Upholds School District Policy Regarding Identity of Trans Students

The Supreme Court of Wisconsin has ruled that the Madison Metropolitan School District (MMSD) may continue enforcing a policy that prevents school authorities from divulging a student’s transgender identity to their parents without the student’s permission. In 2018, the MMSD introduced a policy according to which transgender, gender non-conforming, and nonbinary students were considered to…


Parents Find Critical Race Theory Training Material in Pennsylvania School That Denies Teaching CRT

Parents from the Tredyffrin–Easttown School District (TESD) in Chester County, Pennsylvania, have been granted public access to critical race theory (CRT) training materials through an embattled Right-to-Know request process that was resolved in court. The training was prepared by California-based Pacific Educational Group (PEG). It aims to change the school’s culture, or “transform systemic racial…