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Founder and President, @DefendingEd. Executive Director, @ActionPDE. Fighter for parental rights, limited government, and good breakfast tacos.
Apr 17 7 tweets 3 min read
🚨NEW from @DefendingEd:

K-12 school districts across the country have implemented policies or plans that base the hiring and retention of teachers and staff on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI).

🧵Thread on the troubling findings…

defendinged.org/investigations…
Image Our report details how school districts are using ideological screening and race-based preferences in the hiring and retention processes.

We obtained the non-public information needed to compile the list through public records requests.
Mar 13 7 tweets 4 min read
🚨BREAKING from @DefendingEd:

A Chinese-owned financial corporation that provides tutoring services to at least 100 school districts across the country is infiltrating American classrooms and potentially exploiting student data.

🧵Thread Image — a personal tutor site "dedicated to promoting equity, opportunity, and achievement for all learners" that partners with "colleges and universities, K–12 schools and districts, public and state libraries, employee benefits programs, and the U.S. military to provide 24/7, on-demand tutoring and homework help in more than 250 subjects."

Below is a non-exhaustive list of school districts that give students access to .

Tutor.com
Tutor.com
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Jun 28, 2023 6 tweets 3 min read
🚨UPDATE: Emails FOIA’d by @DefendingEd from Mount Pleasant High School in Rhode Island show that the assistant principal knew she was raising money for human traffickers and was aware that student’s family was in danger.

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https://t.co/7A8VOwkUW8 https://t.co/fTSI2rNEdrdefendinged.org/incidents/emai…

Nothing in the emails indicates that law enforcement was ever contacted. Rather, the assistant principal opted to try and fulfill the demands of the human traffickers:

“He only owes $2000 out of the $5000, but if he does not pay that by February 1, they will kill his family in… https://t.co/PGarfHf31ztwitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Mar 21, 2023 6 tweets 2 min read
🚨NEW @DefendingEd polling shows that Americans of every background oppose immoral and unconstitutional parental exclusion policies that are in place in schools across the country.

Thread on the findings. 🧵 📊71% of voters OPPOSE withholding information about a child’s gender identity from parents

Including:

➡️76% of Black voters, 66% of Hispanic voters, and 59% of Asian voters

➡️85% of Republicans, 74% of Independents, and 59% of Democrats.
Mar 1, 2023 7 tweets 2 min read
💣REPORT: Corporate America is leveraging environmental, social, and governance (ESG) standards to turn K-12 students into political activists.

@DefendingEd has all the details. 🧵

defendinged.org/investigations… As Americans sour more and more on DEI — there is a calculated shift underway for activists to have schools change their focus from DEI to ESG.

They want to use ESG standards to further the encroachment of critical race theory, queer theory, and climate activism into schools. ImageImage
Feb 28, 2023 9 tweets 3 min read
🚨NEW: @DefendingEd exposed another school district hiding students’ gender transitions from their parents!

🧵Thread breaking down the disturbing findings.

townhall.com/tipsheet/madel… Wichita Public Schools (WPS) in Kansas has a gender support plan used for students that appears to show that the gender identity of students can be kept secret from their parents.

The plan asks:

“Who will be the student’s ‘go to’ adult at school?”