Dear Governors: Gates, Zuckerberg Push Divisive Agendas in Public Schools
Parents Defending Education, our partner organization, released Cracked Foundations: Philanthropy’s Bid to Control Public Schools. This report documents how several large philanthropic organizations are quietly but significantly promoting harmful race and gender ideology in public schools. Most parents and citizens believe that local taxpayers fund schools in their district. For the most part, this is […]
Their future under threat
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TESTIMONY: Pennsylvania Senate Bill 996, the Parental Rights Protection Act
Chair Argall, Minority Chair Street, and Senators of the State Government Committee, thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak to you today. My name is Alex Nester, and I’m the political director of PDE Action. We are a nonpartisan policy organization working to reclaim schools from divisive political activism through policy reform. One […]