USPIE blasts teachers’ union president for backing failed government education system

Randi Weingarten wants to keep children trapped in a failing system directed from Washington through an agency that has no legitimate constitutional basis, and which exists to promote a collectivist worldview.

 As the Trump administration ferrets out wasteful and ideologically toxic federal spending by the U.S. Department of Education and other federal agencies, the leftwing teachers’ unions are out in the streets with other leftists yelling, “hands off!”

One of the loudest voices on behalf of the out-of-control agency is Randi Weingarten, longtime president of the American Federation of Teachers, and second second-largest teachers’ union in the United States.

In an op-ed for Fox News, she said she is appalled by the Department of Government Efficiency’s recent moves to downsize the Education Department and cut millions in grants. She insists that America’s schools cannot function without money and guidance from Washington.

This is a way of saying — wink, wink — that only the elites know what’s good for us and our children.. Pampered union leaders think that parents, communities and states are simply too stupid to govern themselves, especially those that bitterly ‘cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people who aren’t like them,’ as former President Obama said.

Weingarten wrote of Trump: “His decision to gut the Department of Education—the only federal department dedicated to educational opportunity for all students in America—isn’t about control, efficiency or even test scores. It’s about redistributing money and opportunity from the many to the few.” These comments come as Weingarten collects over $500,000 a year from the union, more than 8.5 times the average teacher’s salary.

This is nonsense. Randi Weingarten wants to keep children trapped in a failing system directed from Washington through an agency that has no legitimate constitutional basis, and which exists to promote a collectivist worldview.

“Federal funding is not used to impose any curriculum or ideology—that’s actually not allowed by law—and those laws and norms shouldn’t be broken, regardless of who is president,” Weingarten wrote.

She knows full well that the department has issued thousands of grants aimed at enforcing LGBTQ+ ideology, among other leftist causes. Weingarten apparently does not trust the states to fairly use and distribute tax money without federal oversight, contradicting her point that the money comes with no directives.

Besides, the very existence of a federal Department of Education is questionable, given that it is not an enumerated entity in the Constitution. America’s founders could not possibly have imagined that the document they crafted so well and at such great cost would be used later to justify this centralized power grab over children’s education.

To hear more from USPIE on the constitutionality of the Department of Education and why education should be returned to its proper local roots, click here to listen to USPIE’s podcast, “Unmasking Government Schools with Sheri Few.”  

Proposed Illinois homeschooling bill is a ‘direct assault on families’

The educational establishment utterly hates the idea of anyone escaping their system of indoctrination

Parents and conservative lawmakers in Illinois are sounding an alarm about a piece of legislation that could drastically change homeschooling rules.

State Rep. Chris Miller, a Republican, said in a Facebook post, “As a father of 7 homeschooled children, I find this bill to be a direct assault on families across Illinois!”

The Homeschool Act, also known as HB2827, would mandate homeschooling parents to fill out a “homeschool declaration form” that would essentially register them in their nearest public school district, Fox News reported.

You can’t be too vigilant when it comes to protecting the right of parents to homeschool their children. The educational establishment utterly hates the idea of anyone escaping their system of indoctrination.

The children of parents who don’t fill out the form are considered “truant, with penalties applying,” according to the bill’s synopsis.

Grassroots pushback is desperately needed to stop this kind of attack on parental rights. Most people don’t realize how vulnerable homeschooling is to the underhanded tactics deployed by politicians owned by the teacher unions.  

The Homeschool Act, also known as HB 2827, passed out of the House Education Policy Committee with a vote of 8-4 on March 18. All Democrats voted for it and all Republicans voted against it. This past week, the House Rules Committee was considering a proposed amendment.

Opposing lawmakers have encouraged constituents to submit opposition witness slips to halt any further progress on the bill. Illinois state Sen. Neil Anderson said on Facebook that 30,000 witness slips have been submitted, according to Fox News.

The proposed regulations are not tied to money. And some liberal politicians have said they have reservations about how far this goes. The good news is that even some Democrats realize that undermining homeschooling is a losing political position.

On a recent episode of USPIE’s podcast, “Unmasking Government Schools with Sheri Few,” Few sat down with Will Estrada, senior counsel at the Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA), to discuss the threats to homeschooling in 2025, including Illinois’ House Bill 2827.

Listen to USPIE’s podcast with Will Estrada on YouTube, Facebook, Spotify or X. 

United States Parents Involved in Education is a nonprofit, nationwide coalition that is fighting to return education to its proper local roots and restore parental authority over their children’s education by helping parents and local communities to escape federal and other national influences. It is the vision of USPIE to create a culture where parents, empowered with the authority to choose what and how their children learn, are the undisputed primary educators of their children, where local schools operate in support of families, and where education is unencumbered by federal mandates.

USPIE aspires to create a culture where parents, empowered with the authority to choose what and how their children learn, are the undisputed primary educators of their children; where local schools operate in support of families, and where education is unencumbered by federal mandates. USPIE’s podcast, “Unmasking Government Schools with Sheri Few,” educates Americans on the various forms of indoctrination, harmful policies and affronts to parents’ rights occurring in government schools across the country. Listen to “Unmasking Government Schools with Sheri Few,” on YouTube, Facebook, Spotify and X.

USPIE’s Millstone award goes to Planned Parenthood’s president and CEO for targeting children with graphic coloring books at science center

APRIL 6-12 IS NATIONAL LIBRARY WEEK

The agenda is not all that complicated; corrupt the kids into having sex as early as possible and then make sure they know where to find the nearest Planned Parenthood abortion clinic.

When parents allowed their children to go on a school field trip to the Kentucky Science Center in Louisville, they didn’t expect the kids to find sexually graphic adult coloring books.

Alexis McGill Johnson, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA), which provided the coloring books to the facility, has “won” the April 2025 Millstone of the Month award from United States Parents Involved in Education.

This organization’s perverse sex education materials are already in nearly every public school. The science center is visited by kids inside and outside the school system, including homeschoolers and private schoolers.

The agenda is not all that complicated; corrupt the kids into having sex as early as possible and then make sure they know where to find the nearest Planned Parenthood abortion clinic. For all Planned Parenthood does, and especially for their role in spoiling children’s innocence at the Kentucky Science Center, Alexis McGill Johnson richly deserves USPIE’s April 2025 Millstone.

USPIE’s Millstone of the Month Award goes to “the person involved in government schools who has committed the most egregious acts against children.”

Television station WDRB first reported on the incident involving students ages 8 to 13 who were attending a field trip from area schools, according to Christian podcaster and former Fox News Radio host Todd Starnes.

“The adult coloring book was created by Planned Parenthood and contains sheets that show male and female private parts and other sexual education activities like crosswords and word searches,” Starnes reported.

“We deeply regret the harm this caused,” the science center said in an online post. “We are taking immediate steps to ensure that all materials distributed at our events are thoroughly reviewed in advance and this partner is no longer welcome at the Science Center.”

A Planned Parenthood spokesperson claimed that “a staff member inadvertently distributed an item that wouldn’t typically be used in a setting like this event, along with many other accurate and age-appropriate materials.”

Starnes commented, “Do you really think the Planned Parenthood coloring books were inadvertently given to the children?”

Heather Terry, of Elizabethtown, told the television station her 9-year-old daughter came home from the field trip with the coloring book. “My concern was the material itself and the content inside for my child personally,” Terry said. “I feel like that’s something I should have control over — when she sees and how she gets that information, not just given out freely because she walked up and someone says ‘Here, do you want a coloring book?’”

The science center said they have severed ties with Planned Parenthood and the organization will no longer be allowed to participate in the center’s events.

This incident shows how today’s parents have to be hyper vigilant even in places like science centers and libraries. April 6-12 is National Library Week. This is a perfect time to spotlight the need for removing inappropriate books and materials from children’s school libraries, helping to put an end to the indoctrination of America’s children.

United States Parents Involved in Education (USPIE) is a nonprofit, nationwide coalition that is fighting to return education to its proper local roots and restore parental authority over their children’s education by helping parents and local communities to escape federal and other national influences. It is the vision of USPIE to create a culture where parents, empowered with the authority to choose what and how their children learn, are the undisputed primary educators of their children, where local schools operate in support of families, and where education is unencumbered by federal mandates.

USPIE aspires to create a culture where parents, empowered with the authority to choose what and how their children learn, are the undisputed primary educators of their children; where local schools operate in support of families, and where education is unencumbered by federal mandates. USPIE’s podcast, “Unmasking Government Schools with Sheri Few,” educates Americans on the various forms of indoctrination, harmful policies and affronts to parents’ rights occurring in government schools across the country. Listen to “Unmasking Government Schools with Sheri Few,” on YouTube, Facebook, Spotify and X.

For more information on United States Parents Involved in Education, visit www.uspie.org or follow USPIE on Facebook or X. 

Report reveals Biden’s Education Department spent $100 million on CRT, DEI and ‘social justice’ training

President Trump’s best strategy is to employ subsidiarity. That means truly returning control to parents and local communities and eliminating all federal involvement in education.

The U.S. Department of Education under President Joe Biden spent over $100 million on grants to universities to train K-12 social workers in critical race theory (CRT), “social justice” and diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), according to a report detailed in The Daily Caller.

This shows why the Department of Education needs to be abolished. President Trump is trying to use his mandate to reform education, but the majority of people in the current system hold leftist ideologies.

They will fight any attempt to push them back even to the center. And the next Democrat administration will just pick up where they left off.

The $100 million in grants was issued under the guise of providing mental health services to students through the Mental Health Service Professional Demonstration Grant Program and the School-Based Mental Health Services Grant Program, according to a recent report.

The funds were distributed to 26 universities that required courses teaching about oppression and white supremacy, radicalizing social workers who went on to work in K-12 schools.

For instance:

• The Master of Social Work program at Georgia State University, which received an $8,000,000 grant in 2023 geared specifically towards children’s mental health, requires a class on “Diversity and Social Justice,” according to the university’s website.
• A $1,200,000 grant awarded to the University of Alaska Anchorage in 2023 goes toward programs that require an explicitly titled “DEI course” that “uses intersectionality as a framework for exploring multiple dimensions of difference and their relationship to oppression, privilege, and cultural humility,” according to the program’s requirements.
• Another school, Indiana University, received a grant worth $5,700,000 in 2023 to teach anti-oppression, heterosexism and white privilege in social work over a five-year period.

Every administration has used and will use the power of its money to influence education throughout the country. President Trump’s best strategy is to employ subsidiarity. That means truly returning control to parents and local communities and eliminating all federal involvement in education.

In an effort to get the federal government out of education entirely, USPIE recently updated and sent its Blueprint to Close the Department of Education to the Trump Administration and Republican lawmakers. President Trump’s Department of Education has not only acknowledged receipt of the Blueprint but confirmed it has been circulated among key officials, signaling the accelerating momentum for this bold reform.

On March 20, President Trump issued an executive order aimed at shutting down the Department of Education. It read in part:

“The Executive Order directs the Secretary of Education to take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure of the Department of Education and return education authority to the States, while continuing to ensure the effective and uninterrupted delivery of services, programs, and benefits on which Americans rely.”

“The Order also directs that programs or activities receiving any remaining Department of Education funds will not advance DEI or gender ideology.”

USPIE’s message has been heard loud and clear at the White House. We wish the new Education Secretary, Linda McMahon, well in her executive capacity to carry out the president’s ambitious agenda.

United States Parents Involved in Education (USPIE) is a nonprofit, nationwide coalition that is fighting to return education to its proper local roots and restore parental authority over their children’s education by helping parents and local communities to escape federal and other national influences. It is the vision of USPIE to create a culture where parents, empowered with the authority to choose what and how their children learn, are the undisputed primary educators of their children, where local schools operate in support of families, and where education is unencumbered by federal mandates.

USPIE aspires to create a culture where parents, empowered with the authority to choose what and how their children learn, are the undisputed primary educators of their children; where local schools operate in support of families, and where education is unencumbered by federal mandates. USPIE’s podcast, “Unmasking Government Schools with Sheri Few,” educates Americans on the various forms of indoctrination, harmful policies and affronts to parents’ rights occurring in government schools across the country. Listen to “Unmasking Government Schools with Sheri Few,” on YouTube, Facebook, Spotify and X.

Report exposes Maine’s woke, pro-LGBTQ+ education system after Trump confronts Governor

Gov. Janet Mills thought she could embarrass the president of the United States right there in the White House, but she’s the one whose unpopular agenda has been unmasked.

In a national governors’ meeting in late February at the White House, President Trump warned Maine Gov. Janet Mills that her state would lose federal funding unless it observed his executive order, “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports.”

“I’ll see you in court,” the Democrat said, to which Trump rejoined, “Good. I’ll see you in court. I’ll look forward to that.” His administration immediately launched several investigations into Maine’s use of federal tax dollars.

Gov. Janet Mills thought she could embarrass the president of the United States right there in the White House, but she’s the one whose unpopular agenda has been unmasked.

On March 3, Campus Reform released an eye-opening report detailing ways the Maine Department of Education spends its education dollars, including $358.4 million in K-12 federal subsidies.

This report shows how hard it will be for President Trump to ‘fix’ government schools. Many parents may believe schools will get better now that Trump is acting forcefully, but parents need to understand that government schools are aggressively resisting being fixed and the best approach is to get kids out.

As revealed in Campus Reform’s report, Maine’s Department of Education website provides directives including these:

1. “Defining LGBTQ+ Words for Elementary Students:” This guide defines words like “transgender,” “gender expansive,” “non-binary” and sexual orientations for elementary schoolchildren.

2. LGBTQ+ in Math Problems: “Simple Ways to Incorporate LGBTQ and Gender Inclusive Material Across the Curriculum” “guides teachers to include LGBTQ teachings across different subjects, including math.”

3. LGBTQ+ in Social Studies, Art and Music: “Simple Ways to Incorporate LGBTQ and Gender Inclusive Material Across the Curriculum” “guides teachers to include LGBTQ teachings in social studies, art, and music.”

4. Non-Binary Animals Activity: Children kindergarten through second grade learn “the terms binary, non-binary, symmetrical and asymmetrical” by having them draw “non-binary” butterflies with two different colored wings.

5. Gender Snowperson: Third-grade through eighth-grade students learn about gender identity, pronouns and sexual orientation. Students dress the “snowperson” in a range of “gender expansive” items.

Remember, this is just the tip of the iceberg in one state. We only know about this because of researchers who dug it out. How much else is going on that we have yet to see in classrooms all over America? The only real solution is homeschooling or private schooling.

In an effort to get the federal government out of education entirely, USPIE recently updated and sent their Blueprint to Close the Department of Education to the Trump Administration and Republican lawmakers. USPIE was pleased to hear back from Trump’s DOE that the Blueprint was received and shared with key officials.

​​​​​​​USPIE aspires to create a culture where parents, empowered with the authority to choose what and how their children learn, are the undisputed primary educators of their children; where local schools operate in support of families, and where education is unencumbered by federal mandates. USPIE’s podcast, “Unmasking Government Schools with Sheri Few,” educates Americans on the various forms of indoctrination, harmful policies and affronts to parents’ rights occurring in government schools across the country.Listen to “Unmasking Government Schools with Sheri Few,” on YouTube, Facebook, Spotify and X.

New England schools punish students for wearing ‘There Are Only 2 Genders’ shirts

Government school employees’ behavior can sometimes be corrected, sadly, only through litigation. Even then, parents must be careful. Winning on one issue doesn’t fix the underlying problem.

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Two brave students bucking the woke value systems of their schools in two different New England states were both disciplined for wearing shirts that say, “There Are Only 2 Genders.”

One of the schools, Peoples Academy in Morristown, Vermont, backed down in the face of legal threats from a Christian civil rights group. The other, in Middleborough, Massachusetts, continues its speech-negating policy.

L.M. v. Town of Middleborough involves the exact same “Only 2 Genders” shirt as in the Vermont case. The school refused to recognize a middle-school boy’s First Amendment rights and the student, “L.M.” sued but lost in the lower courts.

Truth is no defense in a system as corrupt as public education. The only real solution is homeschooling or private schooling. But we are grateful for Christian legal groups that go to bat for students being abused by Left-wing education activists.

L.M.’s case is pending before the Supreme Court, with a petition filed by nonprofit organizations Alliance Defending Freedom and Massachusetts Family Institute. They note that the school openly promotes materials and apparel with pro-LGBTQ+ slogans.

A better outcome occurred in Vermont, although the middle-school girl, “M.P.” was disciplined twice before the People’s Academy, which receives federal funding, relented, according to The Federalist. M.P.’s mother and stepfather retained the Thomas More Society, a national public interest law firm “defending life, family, and freedom.”

In a letter to school officials, Thomas More Society special counsel Adam Hochschild said M.P. had been illegally targeted by the school’s principal by “pulling [M.P.] out of class, reprimanding her, punishing her with in-school suspension, and calling her shirt ‘hate speech.’”

Hochschild cited the 1969 Supreme Court case Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, which concerned students disciplined for wearing black arm bands to protest the Vietnam War.

Of the Vermont school’s turnaround, “Perhaps it was influenced by President Donald Trump’s Jan. 20, 2025, executive order recognizing the ‘incontrovertible reality’ that there are only two sexes and directing the termination of ‘federal funding of gender ideology,’” wrote attorney John Klar in The Federalist.

Government school employees’ behavior can sometimes be corrected, sadly, only through litigation. Even then, parents must be careful. Winning on one issue doesn’t fix the underlying problem, which is that most school employees hold a worldview hostile to that of the parents.

This Tuesday at 11:00 a.m. ET, tune into the latest episode of“Unmasking Government Schools with Sheri Few,” on YouTube, Facebook, Spotify or X, to learn more about the indoctrination, policies and affronts to parents’ rights occurring in government schools.

Appeals court okays school hiding gender switch from parents

‘If the Supreme Court does not take this case and rule in the parents’ favor, this will set a terrible precedent for schools.’

In yet another example of judicial overreach, a federal court has delivered a devastating blow to parental rights, ruling schools can hide children’s gender identity choices from their own parents.

Parents of a girl challenged Baird Middle School in Ludlow, Massachusetts, over its policy of hiding minor students’ “gender identity” information from their parents simply on a student’s say-so.

In Foote v. Ludlow, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit determined that the state’s interest in providing a “safe and inclusive” learning environment for students did not infringe upon parental rights and satisfied the lowest tier of judicial review, according to The Daily Signal.

Vernadette Broyles, president and general counsel for the Child & Parental Rights Campaign, represented the parents in court and said they plan to petition the U.S. Supreme Court to review the case.

If the Supreme Court does not take this case and rule in the parents’ favor, this will set a terrible precedent for schools. The arrogance of not only the school officials but the judges is beyond belief.

Broyles, who is on USPIE’s advisory board, argued that the school’s nondisclosure policy violates parental rights protected by the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

“We’re very disappointed and frankly disturbed by this decision,” Broyles told Fox News Digital. “I truly believe that parents across the nation, across Massachusetts, of all political stripes, will be disturbed by this.”

The parents had written to the school explaining that their daughter was gender-confused but under professional care for that condition. They told the school that no one should communicate with her about the subject. However, the girl told school officials that she considered herself “genderqueer,” wanted to use another name, and didn’t want her parents to know.

Broyles told Fox News Digital that the court ruling expanded the authority of school officials over the family’s “personal, intimate mental health decisions” and ignored the parents’ clear directive.

“To date, more than 12 million American school students are now enrolled in schools that have express gender confidentiality policies, making the battle to protect parents’ primary authority in the upbringing of their children even more daunting,” The Daily Signal said. Parents really must open their eyes to what is happening. Your children are being taken from you before your very eyes! Get them out of public schools before your child becomes a victim of seriously misguided adults.

To hear more from Vernadette Broyles on Foote v. Ludlow, tune in to today’s episode of USPIE’s podcast, “Unmasking Government Schools with Sheri Few.” on YouTube, Spotify and X.

Leftist education president gets Millstone Award for opposing Trump’s order to end DEI

In the face of an executive order ending federal support for diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs, the education establishment immediately began forming a resistance movement.   A key part of it is the American Council on Education (ACE), led by its president, Ted Mitchell.   This past week, Mitchell was among so-called education leaders advocating ways to get around President Donald Trump’s executive order and a subsequent Dear Colleague letter from the Office of Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Education.   For defying these much-needed correctives to pervasive wokeness in the nation’s schools, Mitchell has earned the March 2025 Millstone Award from USPIE.     USPIE Millstone of the Month Award goes to “the person involved in government schools who has committed the most egregious acts against children.”   Left-leaning organizations like the American Council on Education are vowing full-scale resistance to President Trump’s plan to end wokeness in American education.   Parents who think their schools will be better with the removal of DEI and Critical Race Theory need to realize that schools will defy the orders and continue to teach these harmful ideas.   The Education Department’s “Dear Colleague” letter warned schools that any “race-based preferences and other forms of racial discrimination” violate the Constitution and the Civil Rights Act. Signed by Craig Trainor, the office’s acting assistant secretary, the letter outlined a sweeping interpretation of the Supreme Court’s 2023 ruling in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, which struck down affirmative action in admissions.   “The new letter declared all race-conscious student programming, resources and financial aid illegal and threatened to investigate and rescind federal funding for any institution that does not comply within 14 days,” according to Inside Higher Ed.   Organizations such as ACE, the School Superintendents Association, the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), and EdTrust told educators to “vigorously oppose the assault on our education” and disobey the department’s rule, according to The Daily Caller.   “To be abundantly clear, Dear Colleague letters are not law,” ACE’s Mitchell said at a policy briefing, according to Inside Higher Ed. “They are simply statements of intent by executive agencies about how they intend to interpret the law. And so overcompliance, anticipatory compliance, pre-emptive compliance, is not a strategy. The strategy needs to be much more considered, much more nuanced.”   The arrogance here is obvious. These people really think they own our children and that nothing will stand in the way of their radical designs for them.   This is why we do what we do at USPIE. We expose these leftwing activists for what they are, equip parents to hold school officials accountable, and encourage parents to exercise their God-given freedom to make better choices for their children, such as homeschooling and private schooling.​​​​​​​ Join the USPIE Movement   It is the vision of USPIE to create a culture where parents, empowered with the authority to choose what and how their children learn, are the undisputed primary educators of their children, where local schools operate in support of families, and where education is unencumbered by federal mandates.   DONATE NOW    © USPIE 2014. All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: 998 Guion Drive, Lugoff, SC 29078