Philadelphia parents noticed troubling signs in their children’s social studies curriculum and asked to see all the materials.They couldn’t get them.Now those materials have been brought to light in a congressional investigation.
A new majority staff report from the House Education and Workforce Committee documents how a small group of school personnel turned Philadelphia’s social studies curriculum into a political platform for extremist causes.When those parents approached my organization, the North American Values Institute (NAVI), asking for help, we tried to find out what the district was teaching but we also hit a wall.Eventually, a teacher shared the curriculum with us with considerable trepidation.
She asked that we protect her anonymity.EXCLUSIVE: HOUSE COMMITTEE PROBES CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS OVER HIDING 'GENDER AFFIRMATION' FROM PARENTSThat alone should give us pause: A teacher feared sharing public school instructional materials with people seeking to understand what children were learning.Parents should never have needed an insider, an advocacy organization and congressional investigators to get this kind of access into what their children were learning.But because some school officials know that what they brought into the classroom would be considered out of bounds by many parents, they did everything they can to hide it.Parents from the Montgomery County Public Schools district speak out about parental rights issues impacting their school district outside the U.S.
Supreme Court on April 22, 2025.(Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)WATCHDOG GROUP WARNS PITTSBURGH HIGH SCHOOL COURSE RECRUITS STUDENTS INTO POLITICAL ACTIVISMAccording to the congressional report, a world history assignment asked students to honor a resistance movement.
Among the options was the Great March of Return, a campaign of demonstrations along the Gaza-Israel border that the terrorist organization Hamas supported and that engaged in violent confrontation.Another exercise asked...