Defending Education

📢 Miss our big announcement? After 5 years of fighting for parents' and students' rights in education, we're leveling up. We've taken on rights violations through civil rights complaints and litigation. Now we're strengthening our work with a dedicated tool to fight back: the Center for Litigation and Legal Policy. 🏛️⚖️

ICYMI: A public records request from Defending Ed reveals that MCPS spent over $1.5M in taxpayer-funded attorney fees defending the policy decision to prohibit parents from opting their children out of LGBTQ-themed lessons — the policy at the center of Mahmoud v. Taylor. defendinged.org/incidents/mont…

Read Defending Ed’s full report at: defendinged.org/investigations…

Read the latest from @SarahSmithNM and Defending Ed's @PaulRunko: "New Mexico needs to do everything it can to help students who are ranked last in the nation. Getting New Mexico students access to these scholarships would show students and families across The Land of Enchantment that they come first." realcleareducation.com/articles/2026/…

Indoctrination nation: Proud of my colleagues @DefendingEd who produced the receipts on the SPLCs training of future teachers across the country. ⬇️

Read the full Defending Ed report at: defendinged.org/investigations…

Defending Ed's Rhyen Staley told @foxnewspolitics: "Pre-service teachers should not be forced to adhere to or promote politically charged ideologies to obtain a degree. Furthermore, students and their families deserve an educational experience that is free of political bias and promotes balanced viewpoints." foxnews.com/politics/scope…

🚨NEW TODAY: Defending Ed report exposes how the SPLC’s Learning for Justice/ Teaching Tolerance content, materials, resources, Social Justice Standards, and ideologies are promoted, utilized, and integrated into Colleges of Education nationwide.

Our latest report at @DefendingEd reveals the Southern Poverty Law Center's far-reaching influence in our nation's teacher preparation programs.

We break this down in our latest explainer: the ABA accreditation standards embedding DEI requirements, how widespread they've become, and what it means for the next generation of lawyers entering the profession. 📺Watch here: youtu.be/ZGa3VT3jLMc?si…

Ohio is trying to get out from under the shackles of the ABA, as they should. Ohio law students who graduate from non-ABA-accredited law schools should be able to sit for the bar exam. The ABA’s monopoly must end. defendinged.org/regulations/de…

Learn more about the Federal Scholarship Tax Credit👇 🔗defendinged.org/resources/fede…

Read the latest from Defending Ed’s @JMSFreedom76. “There is a crisis in K-12 education, and yet national and state teachers union leaders remain inexplicably opposed to allowing K-12 parents to help their own children via the EFTC.” @dcexaminer washingtonexaminer.com/op-eds/4640951…

Read the full comment from @DefendingEd: defendinged.org/regulations/de…

The ABA shouldn't have a monopoly on determining who gets to practice law. @DefendingEd submitted a comment supporting Ohio's effort to expand access to the bar exam for qualified graduates outside the ABA's gatekeeping system.

The case for the Education Freedom Tax Credit in one headline.

“As the sole federally recognized accreditor of American law schools, the ABA’s influence on future lawyers cannot be overstated. Our hope is that the Association doesn’t engage in simple sleight-of-hand by shoehorning progressive orthodoxy into law schools under a different name.” @SarahPPerry ijr.com/article/watchd…

What does it take to be an effective parent advocate in your state? From building relationships with legislative staff to knowing when a personal visit beats a mass email, our new guide breaks it all down. Check it out.👇 defendinged.org/resources/a-ci…

🚨Montgomery County Public Schools spent $1.54M in taxpayer dollars fighting parents' right to opt their children out of gender ideology lessons. @DefendingEd's report includes invoices exposing the cost of putting ideology over parents.

Join @FedSoc's webinar on the nuts and bolts of higher education accreditation and the Trump administration’s latest regulatory moves. Hear from DFI President and Co-Founder Bob Eitel, @DefendingEd's @SarahPPerry, Trinity College’s Adam Kissel, and attorney Jonathan Helwink on Monday, July 13, at noon ET.