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groundloop

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Thu Feb 27, 2025, 07:12 PM Feb 2025

Moms for Liberty, Education Department launch program to report teachers who promote diversity [View all]

Source: Salon

The Department of Education is teaming up with the far-right activist group Moms for Liberty, launching a portal Thursday where parents can submit tips to the department to investigate as part of the crusade to end diversity and inclusion efforts in schools.

In a press release, the department announced it was launching the portal so that anyone can “submit reports of discrimination based on race or sex in publicly-funded K-12 schools,” which the department would then use as a guide “to identify potential areas for investigation.”

The press release included a statement from Tiffany Justice, a co-founder of Moms for Liberty and Heritage Foundation employee. Justice claimed that “parents have been begging schools to focus on teaching their kids practical skills like reading, writing, and math, instead of pushing critical theory, rogue sex education and divisive ideologies — but their concerns have been brushed off, mocked, or shut down entirely.”

Justice, who heads an organization whose members have been accused of waging harassment campaigns and repeatedly rebuked in school board elections, went on to say: “This webpage demonstrates that President Trump’s Department of Education is putting power back in the hands of parents.”

Read more: https://www.salon.com/2025/02/27/moms-for-liberty-education-department-launch-program-to-report-teachers-promote-diversity/

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Demonize teachers, healthcare workers, researchers, military, etc etc. Irish_Dem Feb 2025 #1
Please stop this............... Lovie777 Feb 2025 #2
"...the crusade to end diversity and inclusion efforts in schools." J_William_Ryan Feb 2025 #3
One of the first things the Nazis did was to burn school books and write their own. Lonestarblue Feb 2025 #20
Moms for Liberty??????? bdamomma Feb 2025 #28
Moms For Tyranny Drum Feb 2025 #4
You're spot on. NotHardly Feb 2025 #7
I taught for 36 years and never once focused on badhair77 Feb 2025 #5
MfL feed on extreme cases like one here in Pittsburgh Pull_Left Feb 2025 #22
Please delete your post, because it only encourages people to sabotage the site, mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2025 #6
Holy shit this country is going to hell! mdbl Feb 2025 #8
Idiots don't understand you can't just "fire" teachers willy-nilly, valleyrogue Feb 2025 #9
Not true Pull_Left Feb 2025 #23
Actually, it is true. valleyrogue Feb 2025 #24
I don't mean to say or infer you aren't knowledgeble Pull_Left Feb 2025 #25
Teacher in Ohio Nikossitti Feb 2025 #27
Shouldn't that be Swinging Moms for Liberty? Buddyzbuddy Feb 2025 #10
That group is misnamed. love_katz Feb 2025 #11
Is this the same Moms for Liberty where a co-founder was involved in a quashed sex scandal including allegations of rape Hugin Feb 2025 #12
Yes indeed. One of the co-founders, Sarasota school board president (at the time) Bridget Ziegler, 2023. Timeflyer Feb 2025 #32
If this doesn't sound like Figarosmom Feb 2025 #13
It'd be a shame if the tip portal was flooded with fake requests, rendering it useless Tarc Feb 2025 #14
Other parents should get together and return the favor oldmanlynn Feb 2025 #15
Will teachers be reported for bullying or harrassing or embarrassing kids? slightlv Feb 2025 #16
Mom's for Tyranny liberalgunwilltravel Feb 2025 #17
I was thinking the same thing purr-rat beauty Feb 2025 #21
Go Bills! liberalgunwilltravel Feb 2025 #30
The destroyers of free public education, the corporate education privatizers, have deep pockets Timeflyer Feb 2025 #18
Why do I suspect the "tip line" will fill up quickly with Republican teachers? jmowreader Feb 2025 #19
Why is there no group to report Authoritarian Conformity? bucolic_frolic Feb 2025 #26
Two Moms and a Hubby want to direct the morals of our children. Norrrm Feb 2025 #29
As a teacher, then I can't tell a non-white student no_hypocrisy Feb 2025 #31
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