Teachers' union-backed network runs anti-school-choice campaign, claiming programs are 'deeply rooted' in racism



A network backed by the National Education Association, the country's largest teachers' union, plans to run an anti-school-choice campaign, claiming that voucher programs are "deeply rooted" in racism, the Daily Caller News Foundation reported Friday.

According to school choice advocate Corey DeAngelis, Partnership for the Future of Learning, a "network of 700 education and social justice field leaders from 300+ organizations and 20 foundations," sent an "embargoed toolkit" set for the campaign's release on January 22. The network's website lists the NEA and the NEA Foundation as some of its "funders." The network is "housed and supported by Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors," its website states.

SCOOP: A group backed by the nation's largest teachers union is launching a campaign against school choice on Monday, during National School Choice Week.\n\nThey sent out an embargoed toolkit with messaging and their main tactic is... wait for it... to call school choice racist \xf0\x9f\xa4\xa3
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The release of the new campaign coincides with National School Choice Week.

DeAngelis reported that the network's "Truth in Education Funding" tool kit's main messaging tactic is "to call school choice racist." The tool kit reportedly claims that school choice voucher programs are increasingly being adopted nationwide "despite overwhelming evidence that they are harmful public policy."

"In recent years, there has been a concerted effort to dismantle public education as a critical foundation of democracy, whether through legislation that harms LGBTQIA+ communities at school or banning inclusive books and curricula," the network's tool kit states. "This effort is inextricably linked to the push for private voucher programs."

"Private school vouchers are historically rooted in segregation, discrimination and racism," it adds.

The tool kit purports to be a "guide to understanding vouchers and supporting public education."

The network claims that the public education system is "equitable," "effective and inclusive" compared to "harmful" voucher programs, which allow parents' tax dollars to follow their children to the school they believe will serve their education best.

The Truth in Education Funding website argues that voucher programs are "rooted in segregation" because they "were first introduced during the Civil Rights era when efforts to desegregate schools were at a peak."

"At that time, publicly funded scholarships to attend private schools were intended for white families to escape state desegregation efforts. While current pro-voucher advocates don't put segregationist intentions on display, research shows that voucher programs increase racial isolation and offer no educational benefits," it continues.

However, considering today's school choice programs allow for all students, regardless of race or economic status, to attend and fund the school of their preference, the network's and the teachers' union's grievance with the programs is much more likely the fact that they can remove funds from underachieving public school systems. Voucher programs pressure public schools to boost their performance or risk losing their students — and thereby, the taxpayer dollars that follow those students — to better-performing school systems.

"Voucher programs pose a significant threat to the fiscal health of state budgets and to funding for public schools, which is often inadequate. Yet state legislatures are pouring more and more public funding into voucher programs, all while misrepresenting their fiscal impact," the website claimed.

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Mother saved her 10-year-old from a school that covertly transitioned her. Now she's fighting back and speaking out against the 'medicalization of children'



Schools across America are affirming the gender dysphoria of children without parental consent.

While some educators have been exposed for intentionally confusing children on matters of sex and identity, entire school boards are doubling down, with some battling in court to keep facilitating students' so-called transitions without telling parents.

When Jennifer — who omitted her surname for the sake of her child's privacy — caught her school covertly transitioning her 10-year-old daughter; she rescued her little girl and began homeschooling.

In many similar cases, the cards appear stacked against parents, particularly those unable to homeschool but wary of strangers confusing their kids and putting them on paths to sterile, drug-dependent, and disenchanted lives.

Jennifer recognized that while her little girl was spared, she wouldn't be the last targeted; that educators, school administrators, pharmaceutical companies, psychologists, and other power- and profit-incentivized parties were just getting started.

Recognizing that other parents may need help and that this is a battle worth winning, Jennifer and other parents are now going on the offensive.

TheBlaze recently spoke to Jennifer about the fight her volunteer organization, Partners for Ethical Care, is taking to the loose coalition of bad actors apparently eager to transmogrify children, usurp parental rights, and turn a profit at the expense of innocence.

What are the details?

In November, Jennifer told Wesley Yang, who runs the Substack "Year Zero," about how her school first socially transitioned her 10-year-old daughter without informing her.

"The school was using a name that she made up, so not her name that was given to her, and different pronouns," said Jennifer.

Jennifer's daughter no longer used the girl's bathroom. Had she been 13 or older, she would have been able to use boy's facilities without Jennifer knowing, but as she was still only 10 at the time, she instead used the office washroom.

A school therapist would regularly meet with Jennifer's daughter, ultimately in excess of five hours.

In these meetings, the therapist would reportedly employ biologically inaccurate pronouns in reference to the little girl and egg on the child's temporary identity crisis.

One teacher went so far as to suggest that Jennifer's little girl be assigned to a boys' cabin at camp.

For the most part, the school elected not to keep Jennifer's family in the loop.

\u201cJennifer talks about how her school socially transitioned her 10-year old daughter behind her back. https://t.co/eFgMFeRxIG\u201d
— Wesley Yang (@Wesley Yang) 1668107402

"It just felt so much like an injustice," she told TheBlaze. "I knew I was gonna try to do whatever I could to push back against it."

Despite fearing that Child Protective Services might break up her family, citing her refusal to accommodate the so-called transition, Jennifer ultimately pulled her daughter out. CPS fortunately never came, and Jennifer now homeschools her child.

Her daughter's previous confusion, exacerbated by her LGBT friend group and by social media, dissipated over time.

While her battle for her daughter's well-being was over, Jennifer's war against the "medicalization of children" was just beginning.

Partners for Ethical Care

While Jennifer and her family enjoyed the requisite stability to homeschool, she recognized that not all parents have that as an option. She also suspected that soon, CPS and other state agencies would be weaponized against families antipathetic to the medicalization of their children.

"I do remember at some point, my mother's saying to me, 'This is so huge. ... What are you going to be able to do?' I said I don't know, but if I don't, who will do something?" said Jennifer. "Everything has to start somewhere, right?"

Jennifer noted that at the time, she wasn't aware of some of the other groups committed to protecting children from the transsexual agenda but is now well acquainted with the work of Stephanie Davies-Arai of Transgender Trend and others in the U.S. extra to the "vast underground network of parents" committed to the fight.

Keen to do undertake an initiative of their own, Jennifer, Alix Aharon of the Gender Mapping Project, Jeannette Cooper, and several others banded together in fall 2020.

Jennifer recalled the sentiment early on: "We're like, let's start this organization. Let's fight. Let's fight the medicalization. ... We were looking to create awareness because there didn't seem to be much outside of our tiny bubble. And to gather stories to potentially help [in legal efforts]."

The group they founded is called Partners for Ethical Care.

"No child is born in the wrong body" is the understanding underpinning the work undertaken by the volunteers behind PEC, all committed to stopping the "medicalization of children."

As part of its campaign to raise awareness, PEC shares testimonials on both its website and podcast from families adversely affected by transsexual ideology as well as from those who have "desisted" (i.e., ended social and or medical transmogrifications.)

PEC also provides parents with resources detailing methods by which they can opt their kids out of gender education programs and find "gender-critical" therapists as well as what to look out for in the way of deceptive practices widely employed by school administrators and educators.

The awareness and resource campaign is critically important, suggested Jennifer, since the fight against the medicalization agenda targeting minors and the true nature of the underlying problem is "under a media blackout, especially in left-wing media, mainstream media."

Best practices

Jennifer highlighted three major ways parents can confront this threat posed to their children.

First, she suggested that parents should regulate and monitor their kids' interactions online.

"The biggest thing is for parents to keep their kids off the internet for as long as possible," she said. "My daughter did learn some of these things in an online forum — a drawing forum."

Whether it's on Discord or in online games, "The internet is a predator's playground right now."

According to Jennifer, both predators and the ideologically-motivated seek out the vulnerable online.

Narrowing kids' exposure to content that inspires and promotes gender dysphoria online is important but only a partial measure.

Second, Jennifer suggested that parents need to stand up for their kids in their school districts.

Any ground conceded by parents regarding how their children are to be raised is ground that will ultimately be taken by bad actors. Thus, parents need to keep "standing up for their kids and trying to change the harmful policies" in schools.

"I will say it's scary for a lot of people to go up [against school boards and educators]," she said, noting how parents critical of transsexual bathroom policies and the crimes they enabled in Loudon County, Virginia, "got framed as terrorists."

Jennifer suggested that the PEC, like the parental rights movements combatting transsexual propaganda and policies in Virginia and the coalition of Muslim and Christian parents who recently sued a school board in Ohio, are not, contrary to the suggestion of some LGBT activists, "powered by hate."

"We are not getting paid. We're doing this out of love. We're doing this because we care that much," she said.

Third, "every parent should look into the gender policy at their school. Information is power."

This can be hard, she said, because oftentimes schools keep their real intents and policies hidden.

The foundation for these three tactics is awareness.

\u201cWe\u2019re proud to announce our first event\u2014and it\u2019s a big one. Join us in Austin, TX on April 20, 2023 to learn from a panel of experts from around the world going step-by-step through the process of how Gender Inc Manufactures Trans Kids. Tickets: https://t.co/9WjVuO3RGG\u201d
— Partners for Ethical Care (PEC) (@Partners for Ethical Care (PEC)) 1670267297

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