<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/university-of-pennsylvania" target="_blank" rel="noopener">University of Pennsylvania&#8217;s</a> Board of Trustees held an &#8220;emergency meeting&#8221; on Thursday — just one day after Governor Josh Shapiro (D-PA) blasted Penn President Elizabeth Magill over her &#8220;absolutely shameful&#8221; comments on Capitol Hill.
According to a <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/07/business/penn-emergency-meeting-liz-magill/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> published Thursday by CNN, the board met virtually after being called to convene on Wednesday, just hours after Shapiro weighed in on Magill&#8217;s testimony regarding anti-Semitism on her campus.
Magill became the subject of intense scrutiny following her answers to questions from Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) over whether or not students calling for the genocide of Jews were in violation of Penn&#8217;s code of conduct with regard to harassment and bullying. Magill said that such speech was not punished at Penn unless it &#8220;turns into conduct,&#8221; and argued that &#8220;context&#8221; was necessary.
Shapiro was not impressed by Magill&#8217;s comments, telling <a href="https://jewishinsider.com/2023/12/calling-for-moral-clarity-on-antisemitism-pa-governor-slams-upenns-president/?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Daily%20Kickoff%20December%207th%202023&amp;utm_content=Daily%20Kickoff%20December%207th%202023+CID_2a82005a06180b3568bee21832314de1&amp;utm_source=Campaign%20Monitor%20JI&amp;utm_term=Jewish%20Insiders%20Gabby%20Deutch%20in%20Philadelphia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jewish Insider</a>, &#8220;The simple answer is yes, that violates our policy.&#8221;
&#8220;Leaders have a responsibility to speak and act with moral clarity, and Liz Magill failed to meet that simple test. That was an unacceptable statement from the president of Penn,&#8221; Shapiro continued. &#8220;Frankly, I thought her comments were absolutely shameful. It should not be hard to condemn genocide.&#8221;
Shapiro went on to say that he had spoken to Magill in the weeks since the October 7 massacre — and that he had made specific suggestions and recommendations regarding steps the school could take to make sure that Jewish students felt safer.
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&#8220;They have seemingly failed every step of the way to take concrete action to make sure all students feel safe on campus. And then the testimony yesterday took it to the next level,&#8221; Shapiro added.
He called for the university&#8217;s board of trustees to convene, saying that he believed it was necessary to explore whether Magill accurately &#8220;represents the views and values of the University of Pennsylvania,&#8221; but adding that he was prepared to wait for the board to take action.

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The only rabbi on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/harvard" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harvard’s</a> newly-formed anti-Semitism advisory committee resigned on Thursday amid ongoing controversy about anti-Semitism on campus.
“Without rehashing all of the obvious reasons that have been endlessly adumbrated online, and with great respect for the members of the committee, the short explanation is that both events on campus and the painfully inadequate testimony reinforced the idea that I cannot make the sort of difference I had hoped,” Rabbi David Wolpe, a visiting scholar at Harvard’s Divinity School, wrote on Twitter.
Harvard University president Claudine Gay <a href="https://www.harvard.edu/president/news/2023/combating-antisemitism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced the formation</a> of the committee in the wake of Hamas’ brutal October 7 attack and a rise in anti-Israel demonstrations on her campus. Members included various faculty members, alumni, students, and Jewish leaders.
While Wolpe said he thinks most Harvard students are just trying to pursue education and a career, he said Harvard is being consumed with an ideology that demonizes Jewish people.
“[T]he system at Harvard, along with the ideology that grips far too many of the students and faculty, the ideology that works only along axes of oppression and places Jews as oppressors and therefore intrinsically evil, is itself evil,” he wrote. “Ignoring Jewish suffering is evil.”
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1/3 Resigning, a Hanukkah Message: As of today I have resigned from the antisemitism advisory committee at Harvard. Without rehashing all of the obvious reasons that have been endlessly adumbrated online, and with great respect for the members of the committee, the short…
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“Belittling or denying the Jewish experience, including unspeakable atrocities, is a vast and continuing catastrophe,” he added. “Denying Israel the self-determination as a Jewish nation accorded unthinkingly to others is endemic, and evil.”
Wolpe said he believes some of the issues include herd mentality, victimhood, and anti-Semitism.
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“Part of the problem is a simple herd mentality – people screaming slogans whose meaning and implication they know nothing of, or not wishing to be disliked by taking an unpopular position.” Wolpe wrote. “Some of it is the desire to achieve social status by being the sole or greatest victim.”
“Some of it is simple, old-fashioned Jew hatred, that ugly arrow in the quiver of dark hearts for millennia,” he added.
On Tuesday, during a Congressional hearing, Gay <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-top-university-presidents-balk-when-asked-if-genocidal-chants-against-jews-violate-codes-of-conduct?ref=lite.improvethenews.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dodged a question</a> about whether calling for the genocide of Jews constituted bullying and harassment, claiming it depends on the context. Following outrage after a clip of the interaction went viral, Gay issued a follow-up statement attempting to assuage the backlash.
“There are some who have confused a right to free expression with the idea that Harvard will condone calls for violence against Jewish students,” the university <a href="https://twitter.com/Harvard/status/1732447178491109411" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeted</a>. “Let me be clear: Calls for violence or genocide against the Jewish community, or any religious or ethnic group, are vile, they have no place at Harvard, and those who threaten our Jewish students will be held to account.”
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Wolpe, who is also the Max Webb Emeritus Rabbi of Sinai Temple, related his resignation to the Jewish holiday of Chanukah, which begins Thursday night.
“In this generation, outside of Israel, we are called to be Maccabees of a different order,” he wrote. “We do not fight the actual battle, but we search for the cruse of oil left behind.  Remember the oil was to last one night, but lasted eight – which means there were seven nights of miracle.”
“But of course the first night was the greatest miracle – because the motivation to light the initial candle, to ensure the continuity and vitality of tradition in each generation, that is the supreme miracle,” he added. “We are at a moment when the toxicity of intellectual slovenliness has been laid bare for all to see. Time to kindle the first candle.”

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A plane flew a banner over Harvard University on Thursday featuring a Palestinian flag along with the words, &#8220;Harvard Hates Jews,&#8221; which comes as the school has faced weeks of backlash over the rise of anti-Semitism on its campus.
Harvard University President Claudine Gay was grilled during testimony this week in front of the U.S. Congress over anti-Semitism on her campus.
When asked if calling for the genocide of Jews violates Harvard’s rules on bullying and harassment, Gay <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-top-university-presidents-balk-when-asked-if-genocidal-chants-against-jews-violate-codes-of-conduct">said</a> that it depended &#8220;on the context.&#8221;
Gay faced intense backlash over her remarks and was later forced to issue a separate statement.
&#8220;There are some who have confused a right to free expression with the idea that Harvard will condone calls for violence against Jewish students,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Let me be clear: Calls for violence or genocide against the Jewish community, or any religious or ethnic group are vile, they have no place at Harvard, and those who threaten our Jewish students will be held to account.&#8221;
Gay faced blowback over the statement, including widespread calls to resign.
The Boston Herald <a href="https://www.bostonherald.com/2023/12/07/harvard-hates-jews-banner-flies-above-cambridge-campus-as-president-comes-under-fire-for-congressional-testimony-about-antisemitism/">reported</a> that Jewish students hired someone to fly the banner in circles over the school following Gay&#8217;s testimony.
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The group behind the banner, called &#8220;Harvard with Hamas,&#8221; said that the aerial campaign “seeks to respond to the runaway antisemitism on the campus and the shocking support for Hamas terrorism and rape obscenely vocalized by Harvard faculty and students following the Oct. 7th massacre in Israel,” according to a statement obtained by the Boston Herald.
“The American college campuses have become toxic dumps filled with Jew hatred and anti-Israel violence,” said one of the students involved in planning the event. “Harvard’s logo ‘veritas’ is the Latin word for ‘truth’ and the banner flown over Harvard skies reveals the painful truth behind the reality of this institution today: what was once the symbol of dignity and tolerance, has sunk deep into an oblivion of hatred and lie. The terror flag and jarring banner will circle over their heads until they can’t hide anymore.”
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A new report delineates how Qatar, the largest foreign donor to U.S. universities, uses its enormous financial resources to influence what the report calls the “organizations, institutions and mechanisms that are being used by the Qatari paymaster to manipulate Western democracies.”
“Islamism developed in Qatar between the 1960s and 1980s, and it was influenced by the writings of significant Muslim Brotherhood (MB) scholars/ideologues such as Sayyid Qutb,” states the <a href="https://isgap.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Networks-of-Hate_1DEC.pdf">report</a> from the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy titled, “Networks of Hate: Qatari Paymasters, Soft Power and the Manipulation of Democracy.&#8221; &#8220;A group of Muslim Brotherhood members gradually re-developed strategies, and started thinking in terms of ‘human rights’ and ‘civil society’ for its proselytizing (da’wah) system.”
“Qatar supported the activist, political and ‘civilian’ structures of Arab and Islamist non-state actors—especially those affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood,  some of which were designated terrorists by the United States for their ties to Hamas and other terror groups around the world,” the report continues.
The Qatar Investment Authority (QIA), established in 2005, has estimated total assets of between $500 billion and $1 trillion. It has invested in the Empire State Building, Plaza Hotel, and St. Regis Hotel in New York City, and, according to a 2022 publication by the US-Qatar Business Council, plans to invest $45 billion into the United States market.
The Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development (Qatar Foundation, “QF”) was a non-profit organization established in 1995 but later changed its status to a “private institution for public benefit,” the report states. “This shift signifies that the QF could now identify itself as a private organization without any restrictions tied to a governmental entity, while the Emir of Qatar retains ownership. Therefore, Qatar was given the ability to mask state funding as private sector giving,&#8221; the report explains.
“At the time of writing, the State of Qatar contributes more funds to universities in the United States than any other country in the world &#8230; as ISGAP has exposed on numerous occasions, billions of USD are being donated to higher education without being declared as funding from Qatar by universities,” the report alleges.
“Collaboration on joint projects between different U.S. universities utilizing foreign companies—including Spain—to transfer money from Qatar into various universities,” the report continues. “Notably, evidence indicates that the Spanish energy company, Iberdrola, and its American subsidiary, Avangrid, were utilized as conduits to indirectly channel Qatari money into partnerships with U.S. universities without proper disclosure.”
“It is important to note that when Hamas was created, it designated itself as “one of the wings of Moslem Brotherhood in Palestine (sic),” the report states. “Qatar has provided a safe haven for Hamas’ political leadership since 2012. In January 2015, then-Qatari Foreign Minister referred to then-Hamas politburo chief Khaled Meshaal as the country’s “dear guest.”
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“ISGAP’s research has found that universities continuously fail to adequately report significant financial sums that are granted to universities. In fact, millions of Qatari funds were omitted from mandatory disclosures,” the report states. “This violates Section 117 of the HEA, and is symptomatic a Qatari pattern to resist calls for transparency around university funding.”
“Another method in which Qatar can transfer funds without reporting is by utilizing foreign companies to transfer money from Qatar into various universities,” the report says. “For example, funds were transferred to Yale University through Iberdrola and its subsidiary Avangrid. Additionally, Santander Bank was involved in channeling funds to different faculties to support collaborative study programs with QF.”
“Qatar gains faculty advocacy for pro-Qatari perspectives on campus. Indeed, academics are ultimately incentivized to incorporate pro-Qatari advocacy into their syllabi,” the report adds. “Thus, Qatar is seemingly able to normalize its ideological imprint on American classrooms. This would seem to constitute inappropriate foreign pedagogical interference, masked by superficial academic engagement. “
The report suggests that Congressional hearings “should be convened to fully understand the impact of Qatar’s aggressive investment strategies and assess their influence on Western democratic values and potential security implications,” and an investigation should be launched into universities that take funds from Qatar and an assessment should be made to “assess the impact on education and curriculum, scholarship, and discourse.”
“Is this a cause of the explosion of antisemitism in higher education that has placed Jewish students and faculty in difficulties?” the report asks.

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The presidents of three prestigious schools are backtracking after their congressional testimony this week on anti-Semitism prompted backlash, but it has not stopped the criticism.
The presidents of Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and the University of Pennsylvania testified to Congress on Tuesday about the rise of anti-Semitic hate speech at their schools.
All three presidents avoided answering whether calling for the genocide of Jews violated the universities&#8217; codes of conduct.
&#8220;It can be, depending on the context,&#8221; Harvard&#8217;s president Claudine Gay said. She said such hate speech is &#8220;at odds with the values of Harvard&#8221; and that when that kind of “speech crosses into conduct, that violates our policies.”
&#8220;I have not heard calling for the genocide for Jews on our campus,&#8221; said MIT&#8217;s president, Sally Kornbluth.
University of Pennsylvania&#8217;s president Elizabeth Magill said, &#8220;If the speech turns into conduct, it can be harassment,&#8221; adding that it is a &#8220;context-dependent decision.&#8221;
Bill Ackman, the billionaire founder of hedge fund Pershing Square Capital Management who is also a Harvard alumnus, called for the three presidents to &#8220;resign in disgrace.&#8221;
White House spokesman Andrew Bates <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/12/06/white-house-university-presidents-antisemitism-genocide/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a statement Wednesday that “it’s unbelievable that this needs to be said: calls for genocide are monstrous and antithetical to everything we represent as a country.”
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) also <a href="https://twitter.com/SteveScalise/status/1732426006311608512" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called</a> on the presidents to resign, saying that &#8220;their hypocrisy is stunning.&#8221;
Magill addressed the criticism in a video released Wednesday evening.
&#8220;In that moment, I was focused on our university&#8217;s longstanding policies aligned with the U.S. Constitution, which say that speech alone is not punishable,&#8221; Magill said in the video. &#8220;I was not focused on, but I should have been, the irrefutable fact that a call for genocide of Jewish people is a call for some of the most terrible violence human beings can perpetrate. It&#8217;s evil — plain and simple.&#8221;
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Gay, Harvard&#8217;s president, put out an even stronger statement on Wednesday.
&#8220;There are some who have confused a right to free expression with the idea that Harvard will condone calls for violence against Jewish students. Let me be clear: Calls for violence or genocide against the Jewish community, or any religious or ethnic group are vile, they have no place at Harvard, and those who threaten our Jewish students will be held to account,&#8221; Gay said.
Kornbluth attempted to express her understanding to critics in an open letter released later on Tuesday after her testimony.
&#8220;After these past weeks, I know many of you are exhausted and hurting. We have to make room for each other, in our hearts and in our daily lives,&#8221; Kornbluth said. &#8220;We cannot and must not let events in the world drive us apart, or erode our respect for each other&#8217;s humanity, or thwart the great mission we&#8217;re here to pursue together.&#8221;
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However, many critics are not convinced by the presidents&#8217; attempts to come out more strongly against anti-Semitism.
Criticism of the schools and their leadership continued on Thursday from both Republican <a href="https://twitter.com/theblaze/status/1732812648960381267" target="_blank" rel="noopener">and</a> Democrat lawmakers, journalists, social media influencers, and others.
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) said, &#8220;I do,&#8221; when asked whether the presidents should resign.
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&#8220;I think their statements were abhorrent,&#8221; she said. &#8220;They are failing in the worst way as college presidents &#8230; You cannot call for the genocide of the Jews, the genocide of any group of people and not say that that is harassment.&#8221;
&#8220;At Harvard, &#8216;fatphobia&#8217; constitutes violence. But &#8216;globalize the intifada&#8217; requires context,&#8221; journalist Bari Weiss posted Thursday on X.
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&#8220;The abhorrent calls for the genocide of the Jewish community are reprehensible. It is unacceptable that presidents of esteemed institutions like Harvard, MIT, and Penn have not firmly condemned this hatred. Their failure to do so warrants their immediate dismissal from their positions,&#8221; Representative Elise Stefanik (R-NY) posted Thursday on X.
Many on social media also called on employers not to hire graduates of the schools.
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The abhorrent calls for the genocide of the Jewish community are reprehensible. It is unacceptable that presidents of esteemed institutions like <a href="https://twitter.com/Harvard?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Harvard</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/MIT?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MIT</a>, and <a href="https://twitter.com/Penn?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Penn</a> have not firmly condemned this hatred. Their failure to do so warrants their immediate dismissal from their…
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‘Their Statements Were Abhorrent’: Backlash To Harvard, Penn, MIT Presidents On Anti-Semitism Continues Even After They Backtrack

Backlash To Harvard, Penn, MIT Presidents On Anti-Semitism Continues Even After They Backtrack

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From Massachusetts to Wisconsin, schools across the United States are directing children to secretive online LGBT chat platforms where minors discuss “gender affirming surgeries,” transgenderism, and even occult practices with adults who identify as LGBT.
At public schools in Massachusetts, for example, administrators pushed youth who identify as LGBTQIA+ to QChat, a secretive platform that aims to provide “chat-based discussion groups for LGBTQ+ and questioning teens ages 13 to 19” and invites participants to join conversations on everything from tarot cards to “queer youth activism&#8221; to &#8220;sex and relationships,&#8221; all without parental permission.
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The site, <a href="https://www.qchatspace.org/Learn-More" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a project of</a> various LGBT activist groups and Planned Parenthood, is even equipped with a &#8220;quick escape” button that allows users to swiftly hide their use of the site from parents.
And in Wisconsin, students were guided to TrevorSpace, which similarly allows minors who identify as LGBT to anonymously chat with adults on a platform. The platform, a project of the Trevor Project, has been <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/news/undercover-mom-discovers-pandoras-box-of-depravity-in-trans-organizations-chatroom/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">exposed</a> as a hotspot for graphic conversations about sexual fetishes — adults even reportedly gave minors advice on how to discreetly obtain breast binders and hide the purchase from their parents. Perhaps most disturbing, adults on the platform detailed their masturbation habits in chat rooms that were open to minors.
The revelation comes as parents grapple for control over their children&#8217;s health with <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/newsom-signs-bill-making-california-sanctuary-for-child-gender-surgery" target="_blank" rel="noopener">states</a>, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/social-worker-secretly-gave-13-year-old-daughter-chest-binder-to-flatten-her-breasts-mom-tells-school-board" target="_blank" rel="noopener">school districts</a>, and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-american-academy-of-pediatrics-named-in-bombshell-detransitioner-lawsuit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">medical organizations</a>, all of which have sought to enable both the social and medical transition of children without parental consent. In one instance, a social worker at a school in Maine even secretly supplied a 13-year-old girl with a breast binder meant to flatten her chest, aiding her attempt to socially transition.
Nicole Neily, the founder and president of Parents Defending Education, says the promotion of these secretive chat-groups that circumvent parents is often done under the guise of anti-bullying.
“Most gender policies in districts are promoted as ‘anti-bullying’ and ‘anti-harassment’ measures, and districts often cite data on mental health and suicidality,&#8221; Neily told The Daily Wire. She said her group is working to provide parents with information on where they&#8217;re being circumvented by radical gender activists in the schools.
&#8220;Parents are emotionally blackmailed into supporting ‘gender-affirming’ care,” Neilly said. “Through our tip line, PDE receives information from across the country, and gender issues are ubiquitous from coast to coast.”
In the Massachusetts school district, Brockton Public Schools, administrators pushed the QChat on an “<a href="https://cme.bu.edu/sites/default/files/media/2022-07/2022%20LGBTQIA%2B%20Resource%20Guide_final.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">LGBTQIA+ Resource Guide</a>” intended to “improve the comfort level of School Personnel to provide appropriate gender sensitive interactions.” The guide advertised the platform after first noting that youth who identify as LGBT “are more likely to suffer from depression and anxiety disorders” and are more likely to attempt suicide.
Wisconsin&#8217;s Pepin Area Schools previously <a href="https://www.pepin.k12.wi.us/families/mental-health-resources.cfm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pushed</a> the TrevorSpace under the guise of mental health resources but delisted the link after an inquiry from The Daily Wire.
&#8220;While the TrevorSpace platform may provide peer support for LGBTQ students, other concerns about the potential misuse of the platform do outweigh that positive support.  The link to TrevorSpace has been removed from the District’s website,&#8221; a representative of the district told The Daily Wire. &#8220;The District will not be referring any students to TrevorSpace as a resource.&#8221;
The platform similarly allows minors who identify as LGBT to anonymously chat with adults on a platform. One <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/news/undercover-mom-discovers-pandoras-box-of-depravity-in-trans-organizations-chatroom/">mother found</a> the chat space featured graphic conversations about sexual fetishes. Adults even reportedly gave minors advice on how to discreetly obtain breast binders and hide the purchase from their parents. Perhaps most disturbing, adults on the platform detailed their masturbation habits in chat rooms that were open to minors.
But several other districts promote the chat platforms. Wisconsin’s Madison Metropolitan School District <a href="https://www.madison.k12.wi.us/student-staff-support/lgbtqia-plus">promotes</a> the QChat on an “LGBTQIA+ Equity” page, telling students to “join QChat Space for an upcoming group!” A link to the TrevorSpace is accompanied with the description, “Start meeting LGBTQ friends today!&#8221; and describes TrevorSpace as &#8220;an affirming international community for LGBTQ young people ages 13-24.” San Juan Unified School District, located just outside of Sacramento, California, also <a href="https://www.sanjuan.edu/LGBTQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener">promoted</a> the TrevorSpace.
The Charlotte Independent School District in a small Texas town <a href="https://defendinged.org/incidents/charlotte-independent-school-district-provides-lgbtq-and-transgender-resources-including-discreet-chatrooms-to-students/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">advertised</a> the Q Chat Space, as well as other youth LGBT chat rooms earlier this year. Meanwhile, Parents Defending Education pointed to <a href="https://defendinged.org/investigations/list-of-districts-by-state-that-recommend-the-trevor-project-as-a-resource/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dozens of other school districts</a> that cite the Trevor Project, the activist organization behind the TrevorSpace, as a resource.
A wide array of other schools from across America, including California’s <a href="https://www.lbschools.net/departments/student-support-services/lgbtq-students-and-resources" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Long Beach Unified School District</a> and the <a href="https://bhhs.bhusd.org/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=1744199&amp;type=d&amp;pREC_ID=1959975" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Beverly Hills High School</a>, pushed QChat while <a href="https://dcps.dc.gov/page/lgbtq-support-inclusion" target="_blank" rel="noopener">District of Columbia Public Schools</a> and Wisconsin’s <a href="https://sites.google.com/deforestschools.org/dahsstudentservices/lgbtqi/caregivers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">DeForest Area School District</a> pushed both chat platforms. 
Both platforms have c0me under heavy criticism from those who are concerned about the threat they could pose to children&#8217;s safety.
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Republican lawmakers have blasted the Center for Disease Control for their <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/social-justice/2022/07/14/cdc-directs-lgbt-children-secretive-chat-sex-changes-activism-occult/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">promotion</a> of QChat. Eight members of Congress, led by Rep. Dan Bishop (R-NC), <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/congressional-republicans-send-letter-to-cdc-demanding-answer-on-lgbt-childrens-website/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sent a letter</a> to then-Director Rochelle Walensky calling it &#8220;unconscionable&#8221; for the government to promote the platform.
State officials have also come under fire for advertising the site, with former Arizona State Superintendent of Public Instruction Kathy Hoffman <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/education/2022/09/09/arizonas-top-education-official-faces-lawsuit-following-breitbart-news-investigation/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hit with a lawsuit</a> over the Arizona Department of Education&#8217;s <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/education/2022/05/16/arizona-office-education-promotes-chat-lgbtq-youth-led-planned-parenthood/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">promotion</a> of the Q Chat Space. The suit was dismissed, though Hoffman was ousted from office after her endorsement of the site became a <a href="https://x.com/AZGOP/status/1568014586426830850?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">focus of the election</a>.
The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty <a href="https://will-law.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/TrevorSpace-Parent-Ltr-V3.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">drafted a letter</a> for parents to sign to demand that the TrevorSpace be removed as a resource on school district sites.
&#8220;Chat room-style forums allow adults and children to connect to discuss topics such as sexuality and sexual preferences, gender transitioning (including how to obtain sex hormones and promotion of irreversible surgeries), and how to keep information secret from parents,&#8221; the letter says. &#8220;Students discussing sexuality with adults, often seeking to eliminate parents entirely from the conversation, raises significant concerns about student safety.&#8221;
&#8220;If the school district promotes TrevorSpace as a recommended crisis support resource for students, I urge you to discontinue such recommendations and remove it immediately as a resource from your website and any other locations,&#8221; it says.
Reno, Nevada’s Washoe County School District previously listed the QChat Space on its counseling resources and community services but removed the link following a Daily Wire inquiry. “It is not on our district’s list of approved websites and we have removed it,” a representative of the district said.
None of the other school districts responded to requests for comment. Neither the Trevor Project not QChat responded to requests.
This article has been updated to include comment from a representative of Pepin Area Schools.

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A group of Jewish alumni from the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mit-presses-students-and-faculty-to-take-radical-lgbtq-101-training">Massachusetts Institute of Technology</a> sent a letter this week to leadership at their alma mater asking them to offer a stronger response to the pro-Palestinian protests that have broken out on campus.
In a <a href="https://jmitalum.org/open-letter/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to MIT’s board of directors, President Sally Kornbluth, and Faculty Chair Mary Fuller, the Jewish MIT Committee said that they were “sick” and “distraught” by the “state of affairs” at the university and that the campus had been taken over by anti-Semitism.
“An institution that prizes mathematical rigor and consistency and physical and immutable laws is now wrought by arbitrary and discriminatory double standards. Law-breakers flaunt the law, while law-abiders are shunned and left to fend for themselves,” the letter said.
“Jewish students are blocked from attending classes, and fearful of setting foot on campus. Jewish employees fear bringing their children to MIT Daycare. The law-breaking and rule-defying is explicitly intended as a challenge [to] the presence of Jews at MIT,” the letter continued.
The committee asked leadership that rules about protests, political speech, and civility be enforced and that those who break the laws or campus rules be “promptly brought to justice.”
The committee also asked that an outside entity be allowed to come in and investigate the college’s response to the protests and that education on anti-Semitism be mandated for all staff of MIT.
Kornbluth was one of the school officials <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-top-university-presidents-balk-when-asked-if-genocidal-chants-against-jews-violate-codes-of-conduct" target="_blank" rel="noopener">who testified</a> before Congress on Tuesday about the pro-Palestinian protests that have broken out across college campuses in the wake of Hamas terrorist attacks in October that left 1,200 dead and thousands more wounded.
During her <a href="https://news.mit.edu/2023/president-kornbluth-opening-statement-us-house-committee-1206" target="_blank" rel="noopener">opening statement</a> before Congress, Kornbluth said that her administration was “actively” fighting against anti-Semitism.
“As an American, as a Jew, and as a human being, I abhor anti-Semitism, and my administration is combatting it actively. Since October 7th, my campus communications have been crystal clear about the dangers of anti-Semitism and about the atrocity of the Hamas terror attack,” she said.
Protests on campus have previously <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/hundreds-mit-alumni-petition-school-take-campus-threats-against-jews-seriously" target="_blank" rel="noopener">included</a> chants of &#8220;one solution, intifada revolution&#8221; and &#8220;from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!&#8221;
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“I strongly believe there’s a difference between what we can say to each other – that is, what we have a right to say – and what we should say, as members of one community,” Kornbluth said. “Yet as president of MIT – in addition to my duties to keep the campus safe, and to maintain the functioning of this national asset – I must, at the same time, ensure that we protect speech and viewpoint diversity, for everyone, in keeping with the institute’s principles on freedom of expression.”
In the letter, the MIT alumni said that they wanted to help MIT and were waiting for leadership to contact them.
“We are angry and heartbroken at the state of affairs at our alma mater. But we are also committed to fixing MIT. We will go to any lengths to restore MIT to the culture that made it great and beloved by its Jewish alumni,” they said.
The Daily Wire reached out to MIT for comment.

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Portland public school teachers will now take gender identity and race into account before disciplining students, according to an agreement between the school district and its teachers union.
The requirement appears in a collective bargaining <a href="https://www.pps.net/cms/lib/OR01913224/Centricity/Domain/56/Tentative%20Agreements%20Combined%2011.27.23%20PAT.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">agreement</a> between Portland Public Schools and its unionized teachers, which ended a nearly month-long strike late last month. The agreement with the Portland Association of Teachers was ratified on Tuesday.
When a student engages in &#8220;continuous disruptive behavior,&#8221; school officials must develop a &#8220;support plan&#8221; for the student that &#8220;must take into consideration the impact of issues related to the student&#8217;s trauma, race, gender identity/presentation, sexual orientation … and restorative justice as appropriate for the student,&#8221; the agreement <a href="https://freebeacon.com/campus/portland-public-schools-must-now-consider-race-gender-identity-when-disciplining-students/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">states,</a> according to the Washington Free Beacon.
The new disciplinary policy also prohibits suspending a student who threatens or harms other people. Those students may now only be removed from their classroom and sent to a &#8220;self-regulation space&#8221; within the school.
Previously Portland schools <a href="https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/portland-public-schools-changed-suspension-policy-teachers-strike/283-57387413-23d3-46e9-aea7-c532fd91b37f" target="_blank" rel="noopener">could</a> suspend middle and high school for at least five days for extreme cases of students causing physical harm or threatening violence. Now through the union agreement, the district has expanded its rapid response teams, which are supposed to intervene early in these situations.
The agreement replaces the term &#8220;unacceptable&#8221; student behavior with &#8220;continuous disruptive&#8221; behavior, and refers to &#8220;support plans&#8221; rather than &#8220;behavior correction plans.&#8221;
More than 40,000 Portland students <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/portland-public-school-classes-resume-after-teachers-strike/story?id=105188761#:~:text=More%20than%2040%2C000%20Oregon%20students,U.S.%20teachers%20strike%20in%202023." target="_blank" rel="noopener">returned</a> to the classroom last week for the first time since Halloween when the teacher strike ended.
Due to the strike, students&#8217; winter break will be cut in half to make up for the class time they lost this month. Parents have complained this decision affects their holiday plans.
Portland’s teachers will get a pay raise of about 14% over three years thanks to their new contract with the district.
Student discipline has been a growing concern in Portland&#8217;s public schools.
Portland teachers have <a href="https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/portland-public-schools-changed-suspension-policy-teachers-strike/283-57387413-23d3-46e9-aea7-c532fd91b37f" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> they are seeing &#8220;more students in crisis&#8221; with mental health issues, which can lead to fights.
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In response, the Portland school district has been working to beef up its &#8220;restorative justice&#8221; practices over the last two years.
“So that we’re really shifting from this punitive way of how we respond, to either discipline, or how we respond to our students who do get suspended or expelled and need to reenter,&#8221; Char Hutson, the program manager for restorative justice <a href="https://www.opb.org/article/2021/12/24/amid-fights-and-behavior-problems-portland-public-schools-struggles-to-build-restorative-approach-to-discipline/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in 2021.
However, after the pandemic, the district saw a spike in requests for the district’s restorative justice services, seeing up to 60 requests in the fall, 2021 semester compared to just 40 requests for the entire previous school year, Hutson said at the time.
Failing discipline policies were one of the concerns among conservative parents in other parts of the country who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/meet-the-moms-and-dads-taking-over-school-boards-across-the-country" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ran</a> for school board after the pandemic.

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A Colorado school district assigned an 11-year-old girl to share a bed with a biological boy who identifies as transgender, according to a demand letter from the girl&#8217;s parents.
Jefferson County Public Schools in the Denver area assigned the fifth grade girl to a room with three other students, two girls from her school and a boy from a different school, during a cross-country overnight trip in June to Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., said the letter, first <a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/12/04/exclusive-school-assigned-girl-sleep-boy-who-identifies-trans-parental-notification/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> by The Daily Signal.
The 11-year-old was told she would share a bed with the trans-identifying boy. However, she became uncomfortable later that evening when the students were in their room together and the boy revealed he was actually a boy who identified as a girl. The young girl snuck into the bathroom and quietly called her mother, who had come on the trip but was not a chaperone. The girl and her mother asked the chaperones to move her to a different room, and initially, the chaperones tried to have her simply switch beds in the same room. However, the chaperones eventually agreed to move the boy to a different room, but &#8220;lied&#8221; to the other students about why, saying one of the girls needed more space, the letter states.
&#8220;An 11-year-old child was placed in a position where she feared social backlash if she requested a different room in front of other students,&#8221; states the December 4 letter from Kate Anderson, director of the Center for Parental Rights at Alliance Defending Freedom.
“This practice renders it impossible for these parents to make informed decisions about their children’s privacy, upbringing, and participation in school-sponsored programs,” the letter says.
The boy&#8217;s parents also allegedly told school officials their son was in &#8220;stealth mode,&#8221; meaning other students were not supposed to know he is a biological boy.
Now the girl&#8217;s parents, Joe and Serena Wailes, are demanding answers from the school district, saying they object to their daughter rooming with a child of the opposite sex.
The family is demanding the district clarify its policies around trans-identifying children and answer whether it will continue to &#8220;intentionally&#8221; withhold information about rooming accommodations from parents.
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The parents also said the district had assured parents repeatedly that boys and girls would be roomed on different floors during the trip. Chaperones even told the students that boys and girls would not be allowed to visit the floor of the opposite sex, they said.
“I felt a bit helpless,” the girl&#8217;s father said. “I was 2,000 miles away. My daughter is scared in a bathroom trying to get herself out of a situation. It was a frustrating experience, and I just really felt like it was not a situation my daughter should be put in.”
The trans-identifying boy&#8217;s &#8220;privacy and feelings were always the primary concern&#8221; of school employees, the demand letter alleges.
The Waileses also said in their letter that they have two fourth grade children who are registered for upcoming overnight school trips next year, and they want answers before then.

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A Maryland teacher is on leave while the school system investigates her for a string of anti-Semitic social media posts that included creating a list of wealthy Jews in her county, claiming they horde wealth while contributing nothing to society, and calling for “class war.”
Angela Wolf is <a href="https://www2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/schools/takomaparkms/staff/directory/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">head of the English Language Development department</a>, which caters to immigrant children, at Takoma Park Middle School, in the most leftist enclave of liberal Montgomery County. Though she was temporarily removed from school, she remains a <a href="https://www.mceanea.org/who-we-are/board-of-directors/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">board member of the Montgomery County Education Association</a>, one of the largest teachers union locals in the country representing 14,000 staff. 
Her Facebook posts included a drawing of an Israeli tank pointing a tank’s gun at babies in a hospital NICU, and saying “enemy in sight!” As the war wages against the Hamas terrorists who murdered over 1,200 Israelis on October 7, she has posted frequently against Israel. On November 16, she commended &#8220;bus operators at Dulles who refused to transport Zionists to the pro Israel rally,&#8221; adding that &#8220;their solidarity with the victims of Israeli genocide should be commended.”
On October 28, she shared a post saying, “It is not a war — it is a slaughter. Israel determined to make Gaza uninhabitable.”
In December 2020, well before the conflict in Israel, she wrote:
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Four of the five of the billionaires she named are Jewish except Saul, who happens to have a common Jewish name.
In response to criticism, she claimed — referring the the group of people with names like Rubenstein — that she had “no idea these billionaires are Jewish or that my word choice had an [sic] historic significance for the Jewish community. The diatribe against these two words has turned the discussion into a fallacious attack … People are angry at teachers or a particular politician or the poor. I have read no attacks on the 1% … who have NOT ‘earned’ ‘their wealth.&#8217;”
She said “they use their accumulated wealth to further their own interests” and blamed their hoarding for students falling behind while teachers unions refused to work because of COVID. “There should be little question that staying home should NOT equal mental health crises for kids and communities angry because school staff also need to be home,” she wrote.
When someone else criticized her for her anti-Semitic posts, she responded by calling former President Donald Trump a “scumbag” and said, “Fear is leading to censorship. I hope this person gets anti-imperialism and joins us in the struggle … No war but class war!”
On November 30, Takoma Park Middle School Principal Erin Martin wrote a letter to parents “to address a series of antisemitic online posts that appear to have been made by a staff member at our school.&#8221;
&#8220;I was extremely saddened and disappointed by the contents of these posts and strongly condemn the views expressed as they do not align with our school’s values of inclusivity, respect and acceptance,” Martin wrote.
We “have begun an investigation into the matter” but “any actions resulting from an investigation will be considered a personnel matter. Due to employee privacy laws, MCPS and Takoma Park Middle School are unable to provide further details on the personnel matter,” she wrote. 
Teachers unions — like the one of which Wolf is a board member —a re largely responsible for such policies making it hard for to discipline a teacher or for the public to have transparency. Unions advocate vociferously for  teachers accused of such wrongdoing to be reinstated.
Neither the union nor Wolf responded to a request for comment.
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Her union is a far-Left organizing group with a heavy focus on race and diversity, equity and inclusion. There are indications that anti-Jewish sentiment is baked into DEI, including in Montgomery County Public Schools. DEI often casts whites as “settlers” and “colonizers” of America, and paints Jews in a similar light.
At nearby Tilden Middle School, Sabrina Khan-Williams, the “team leader/diversity, equity and inclusion teacher,” promoted outlandish conspiracy theories, such as the idea that Jewish people kill Palestinians to sell their organs, and that the well-documented attack in which Hamas paraglided into a rave was actually a hoax that never happened.
On November 9, another Montgomery County school, Clarksburg High School, approved an anti-Israel demonstration on the anniversary of Kristallnacht, and emailed parents to let them know of the opportunity to join the protest. It was “approved by school leadership” and “Absences due to the participation in the walk-out will be excused,” Principal Edward Owusu wrote.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dei-teacher-in-jewish-area-says-jews-kill-palestinians-to-sell-their-organs">‘DEI Teacher’ In Jewish Area Says Jews Kill Palestinians To Sell Their Organs</a>

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A teacher at a high school in southern <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/illinois" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Illinois</a> kept parents in the dark about students participating in an LGBT club, according to emails between school teachers.
A teacher at Red Bud High School purposely excluded parents from knowledge about a Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA) Club by calling it “Bubbles” and not inviting parents to Google meetings about the club, <a href="https://defendinged.org/incidents/a-statewide-gender-sexualities-alliance-advisors-group-exchange-emails-about-how-to-hide-information-from-parents-of-students-as-young-as-eleven/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">emails obtained</a> by Parents Defending Education and shared with The Daily Wire show.
While no longer with the district, the teacher’s actions show how educators across the country will often push to hide information about sexuality and gender from parents.
&#8220;This is all a part of the dangerous trend of parental exclusion policies that we have seen take root in school districts across the country. These misguided school officials want to exploit their positions to influence children to hide information from their parents. Parents are the ones who maintain the right to raise their children and should not tolerate schools that want to shut them out of the process,&#8221; Michele Exner, a senior advisor for Parents Defending Education, said in a statement.
Red Bud Community Unit School District 132 Superintendent Jonathan Tallman told The Daily Wire that the teacher’s actions had been a violation of district policy, adding that the district would never support hiding any information from parents about school clubs or any school activity. 
On August 31, 2022, a teacher at Red Bud replied to <a href="https://defendinged.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Communication-No-parent-invite-GSA-Advisors-August-31-2022.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">an email</a> from a teacher at <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/illinois-school-diversity-club-sponsor-sought-to-exclude-students-upset-over-trans-bathroom-policy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Waterloo High School</a> in Illinois asking about what platforms the GSA club should use in the context of some students being concerned about their parents “having access” to information about the club. GSA networks are <a href="https://defendinged.org/investigations/pride-and-prejudices/#:~:text=According%20to%20the%20GSA%20Network,role”%20and%20“have%20emerged%20as" target="_blank" rel="noopener">backed</a> by Left-leaning groups and nonprofits like the Transgender Law Center and the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/liberal-ford-foundation-pours-millions-into-pro-amnesty-groups-as-border-crossings-surge" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ford Foundation</a>. 
“I talked about setting up a ‘class’ in Google Classroom because that&#8217;s what all of the teachers here are required to use, but some of the kids were worried about their parents having access,” the sponsor of Waterloo’s GSA &#8220;Diversity Club&#8221; wrote to a group of GSA Illinois advisors. &#8220;What platforms do you use for club communication?&#8221;
In response, the former Red Bud teacher explained how parents could be kept out of the loop. 
“We use google classroom. I don&#8217;t invite parents though. In the beginning we named it something that did not identify the group, but the kids knew what it was. ‘Bubbles’ was what they came up with. Kind of random, but they all knew,” the teacher wrote. “Good problem to have though, are you getting an increase in allies or students that identify as LGBTQ? We really need more allies in our group.”
Tallman told The Daily Wire that the teacher who wrote that email left the district at the end of the 2022-2023 school year and that the GSA club was no longer active in the district. He also said that at some point during the club’s existence, it was no longer referred to by the code word “Bubbles.”
“This district does not support, whatsoever, keeping anything from our parents,” Tallman told The Daily Wire. “It’s not going to happen here.” 
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In another email, a sixth-grade teacher with &#8220;she/her&#8221; pronouns at Dorris Intermediate School in the Collinsville Community Unity School District 10 in Illinois replied to the Waterloo teacher&#8217;s question. 
“We use ClassTag. And load the kids ‘guardian’ with their e-mail or cell number. It is a website/app platform that messages and texts too,” the teacher and yearbook coordinator <a href="https://defendinged.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Communication-Kid-info-as-Guardian-GSA-Advisors-August-31-2022.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>. 
Collinsville Community Unit School District 10 superintendent Brad Skertich told The Daily Wire that Dorris Intermediate has never had a GSA club and that the employee was just &#8220;sharing how they communicate with parents/families throughout the school year.&#8221; He also said that parents at the school were made aware of any club that their children participate in. 
RELATED: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/illinois-school-diversity-club-sponsor-sought-to-exclude-students-upset-over-trans-bathroom-policy">Illinois School ‘Diversity’ Club Sponsor Sought To Exclude Students Upset Over Trans Bathroom Policy</a>

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Tennessee unveiled a broad new school choice initiative this week.
Governor Bill Lee (R) <a href="https://www.tn.gov/governor/news/2023/11/28/gov--lee--legislative-leadership-call-for-statewide-school-choice--unveil-education-freedom-scholarship-act.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> the Education Freedom Scholarship Act on Tuesday at the Tennessee State Museum alongside Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R). Arkansas adopted a universal school choice policy earlier this year.
Lee&#8217;s proposal would establish universal school choice for every public school student across the state.
Next school year, 20,000 scholarships would be available. Half of those would go to Tennessee students at or below 300% of the federal poverty line, who have a disability, or are eligible for the existing Education Savings Account pilot program.
By the school year that starts in 2025, all public school students would be eligible for a scholarship.
No bill has been formally filed in the legislature yet, but Lee <a href="https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2023/11/28/tennessee-school-choice-vouchers-gov-bill-lee-unveils-expanded-statewide-program/71714741007/#" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> his office would work with the legislature on the &#8220;final details&#8221; when the General Assembly reconvenes in January.
Families could spend their child&#8217;s scholarship money on tuition at a private or religious school, uniforms, technology, transportation, or home school expenses. Families can also spend the money on tutoring, after school programs, and SAT and ACT exam fees.
Lee also said the scholarship program would be funded separately from Tennessee&#8217;s Investment in Student Achievement funding structure for K-12 education.
Lee said Tennessee should do two things at once — strive to have the best public school system in the country and provide families with school choice.
&#8220;These two ideas are not in conflict, and conservative states across the country are proof,&#8221; Lee said in a statement provided to The Daily Wire.
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Lee added that he has &#8220;firsthand&#8221; knowledge of the benefits of school choice since his children have been in public school and private school and been homeschooled, and his wife is a teacher.
&#8220;We can all agree that every Tennessee child deserves a shot at success. Every student has unique needs and every classroom offers unique value,&#8221; Lee said. &#8220;Parents know best and should have the freedom to choose the right education for their child, regardless of income or zip code.&#8221;
Sanders praised Tennessee&#8217;s school choice plan, <a href="https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2023/11/28/tennessee-school-choice-vouchers-gov-bill-lee-unveils-expanded-statewide-program/71714741007/#" target="_blank" rel="noopener">calling</a> it part of &#8220;an absolute conservative education revolution in our country.”
A wave of school choice bills have worked their way through state legislatures in recent years. Arizona, Utah, Arkansas, Florida, Oklahoma, Ohio, Indiana, Iowa, South Carolina, and New Hampshire <a href="https://www.vox.com/politics/23689496/school-choice-education-savings-accounts-american-federation-children" target="_blank" rel="noopener">were all</a> successful in creating or expanding school choice programs.
During the pandemic, parents across the country became frustrated with school COVID restrictions and controversial curriculum content, <a href="https://cbsaustin.com/news/nation-world/parents-are-pulling-students-from-public-schools-at-record-rates-students-covid-pandemic-remote-learning-homeschooling-charter-private-mountain-districts" target="_blank" rel="noopener">leading</a> many families to pull their children out of public school permanently.

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