September 27, 2020 Article in PDF Article in Spanish PDF On April 23, 2019, 73 Minnesota House members voted to mandate that all Minnesota pre-K to 12 public/charter schools teach Comprehensive Sex Ed (CSE). Representative Peggy Bennett (R) introduced an amendment to delete the CSE mandate from the omnibus education spending bill. A vote to […]
CPL Focused Minnesota Legislation 2020
September 2020 Because of the COVID19 virus, legislators basically spent the session on all things related to the pandemic. Many of the issues will most likely come up in future sessions that CPL had been following. Constitutional Amendment Caucus Resolutions Mandated Comprehensive Sex Education (CSE) Drag Queen Story Hour Gender Identity Proposal ➤ Constitutional Amendment […]
Critical Race Theory Explodes in K-12
September 9, 2020 Article in PDF A Critical Look at Critical Race Theory (PDF) handout The leftist propaganda of Critical Race Theory (CRT) is exploding in public K-12 schools. CRT calls the values and foundational principles which form our constitutional Republic of America inherently racist and evil. They are denigrated as “white privilege,” “whiteness,” and […]
Definition of Gender Proposal MN Department of Education
April 2020 Submitted as a letter to the editor by Barb Anderson to ABC Newspapers published May 13, 2020 This letter is to alert citizens to the Minnesota Department of Education’s proposed plan to expand their current definition of gender beyond male/female. MDE should establish policy based on facts—not feelings. No child is born in […]
Is Homeschooling Right for Your Family? Explore the Possibilities!
America’s parents have suddenly become ‘homeschoolers’ in the midst of an unprecedented event! While many families homeschool by choice, distance learning is an entirely new challenge for many families. Some parents are feeling a bit overwhelmed and unprepared. However, distance learning isn’t exactly homeschooling, because the schools still follow their own curriculum, make their own […]
Final Legislative Results of the Bullying Bill
May 2014 After 12 hours of debate the House passed HF 826 by a vote of 69 to 63. Two Democrats, Rep. David Dill and Gene Pelowski, crossed party lines and joined with the Republicans in voting against the Bullying Bill. Consistent with last week’s vote in the Senate, the vote in the House demonstrated […]
Internet Safety for Distance Learning
(Download PDF) Since ‘Stay at Home’ orders have been issued, your kids are probably accumulating more than their normal amount of screen time. Child Protection League would like to help you prevent your children from accidentally encountering Internet porn and other dangerous online sites. According to Jaco Booyens, a leading expert on how children are […]
Tips for Spotting Curriculum Red Flags
Download in PDF Child Protection League encourages you to use this unique opportunity with your children learning from home to critically evaluate the content of the curriculum in your child’s classroom. Many states permit parents to review their child’s curriculum, but let’s be honest…most parents haven’t found the time to do that…until now. Since we […]
Can Kids Really Access Porn through their Chrome Books?
Is your school telling you that your child is safe from dangerous material with their Chromebooks? EBSCO is a search engine database available in most Minnesota schools and accessible through the Minnesota ELibrary (ELM). Here is what we discovered. Parents: Take action items at the end of this article! The National Center on Sexual Exploitation […]
Social Justice Books
Teaching Revolution Through Literature
January 2020 A parent in a small, southern Minnesota school district was recently shocked to find that his 7th grade daughter was being introduced to known Communist agitators, violent activist groups, and Islam through a reading assignment sympathetic to each. The assigned book, Brown Girl Dreaming, was an autobiographical poetic-style story of a girl growing […]