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. 🏛️⚖️

New Defending Ed tracker shows SPLC’s reach into K-12 classrooms. Check out our full report 🔗 defendinged.org/investigations…

Time will tell if the ABA is truly committed to cleaning up its act. At @DefendingEd we’ll make sure they’re held to account if they don’t. Full report can be found here: defendinged.org/investigations…

Interesting timing after we @DefendingEd released our report on the ABA’s accreditation standards almost exactly a month ago. We found nearly 1/3 of American law schools still push DEI nonsense required for accreditation. 🧵

TUNE IN: @PaulRunko highlights how @DefendingEd uncovered more than $1 billion in teachers’ union spending directed toward political activism instead of classrooms and students. 🎙️ @StacyOnTheRight

"@DefendingEd out with a new report warning that the SPLC is still pushing its far left agenda into classrooms all over the country." - @EmilyCompagno on @OutnumberedFNC

Declining test scores, union spending, and the SPLC in classrooms — Defending Ed's @esanzi breaks down this week's biggest stories in education. 👇

@emilyjashinsky @DefendingEd @afterpartyemily Full report from @DefendingEd: defendinged.org/investigations…⁩

MUST WATCH: @emilyjashinsky highlights @DefendingEd’s report on SPLC's “Learning for Justice” materials in K-12 schools across the country. "This is ideological progressivism being smuggled into public school classrooms." 🎥 @afterpartyemily

Parents should never be cut out of major decisions involving their own children. @DefendingEd has identified over 1,200 districts across the country with these parental exclusion policies. 👉 defendinged.org/investigations…

12.5 million children attend a school district with gender secrecy policies allowing staff to hide students' gender transitions from their parents. @SarahPPerry, Vice President and Legal Fellow for @DefendingEd, warns that this "scandal of national proportions" will be detrimental if not addressed.

Loved my time on the @DFIPolicy "Freedom to Learn" podcast talking ABA Accreditation, Teacher's Unions, Gender Identity, and more. Tun in here: youtu.be/ayUshxPdbxA?si… via @YouTube

NEW: In a mandatory anti-racism class, Penn State told 1L law students they must "acknowledge the reality of systemic racism" and "dismantle systems that racialize, subordinate, and oppress." One student withdrew from the law school over the class. We obtained shocking audio.🧵

Reading scores, 3rd graders to 8th graders, 2015 to 2025. This is a national tragedy.

EXCLUSIVE: “Unbeknownst to parents… they’ve been poisoning pupils’ minds for years.” A watchdog report claims Southern Poverty Law Center-linked curriculum is being used in classrooms nationwide, including kindergarten, and could be indoctrinating children. The findings say the SPLC’s “Learning for Justice” program has been integrated into lesson plans across 169 districts in 42 states, touching everything from teacher training to student coursework. Critics argue it introduces themes like anti-racism, gender ideology, and white privilege into core subjects — often without parents’ awareness. The development comes as the SPLC faces federal fraud charges over an alleged multimillion-dollar informant program involving White supremacist and neo-Nazi groups.

⁨ICYMI: @DefendingEd uncovered a UC Berkeley training event called "Teaching Histories of Anti-Imperialistic Solidarity,” encouraging K-12 teachers to incorporate anti-imperialist and pro-Palestine political activism into ethnic studies curriculum. 👉 nypost.com/2026/05/13/us-…

Read @DefendingEd’s full breakdown of Title IX here: defendinged.org/title-ix/

The Obama Administration’s “Dear Colleague” letter started a decade-long quest to radically change Title IX. Families are still feeling the impact. Many districts across the country have used the guidance to justify adopting policies that erase single-sex protections.

Every child deserves a great education, no matter their ZIP code. PA should lead on school choice, not lag behind. And let’s be clear: this does not take money from our public schools. PA should opt in to the Federal School Choice Tax Credit. wsj.com/opinion/school…

Today is the 10th anniversary of Obama’s “Dear colleague” letter that opened the door for boys into girls’ sports and spaces. 😔