School Boards

School Boards – The Key

Whether it is Critical Race Theory and Equity, Project 1619, Comprehensive Sex Education, transgenderism or other controversial curriculum, the new strategy is to push these agendas at the local level, to children as young as kindergarten. Instead of class time focused on reading, writing and arithmetic, these radical ideas are being taught and often integrated into every subject. Teachers are trained by “experts” in these radical agendas and then expected to teach them to the children.

Find out what your districts are teaching. If this agenda has infiltrated……. working together! Learn how parents have taken action and successfully changed their school district’s policies at How to Take a Stand and Speak Out. Also find additional helps below.

Child Protection League is here to assist you when we can. Would you help keep us informed of local activity when you or your group engage with your school boards and communities? We can work together! Let us hear from you at Contact Us.

Resources

• School Board Lookup
  A useful tool to find your district and school board.
• School Board Campaign Training
  Online trainings to wage and win a successful campaign for your local school board.
  • Leadership Institute: How to Run for School Board and Win
    The Leadership Institute is offering
  • Nehemiah Reset: A collection of training offered by various organizations
• School Boards: What to Do
  Helpful resources from National Association of Scholars
• Sample Questions to Ask Your School Board Members (PDF)
• A Narrative (PDF)
  How a few volunteers approached a school board.
• Talking with Your School District (PDF) and Talking with Your Legislators (PDF)
  Although both documents focus on the issue of CSE, the principles on speaking to your public officials are applicable.

How to Request Public Information
It is your right to view public records. Your schools should allow you access to curriculum, surveys used, teacher training offered, etc. If you are having difficulty being allowed to see the school records, submit a request to your school board. (called the Freedom of Information Act or FOIA)

• How to Submit an Open Records Request (PDF)
• Sample data request letter regarding K-12 curriculum & surveys (PDF)
• Sample data request letter regarding teacher training (PDF)
• Sample data request letter for comprehensive sex education (PDF)

Sample Letters
Use the samples for ideas on writing your own letter to your school board. Collaborate with others. Send Letters to the Editor with your concerns to reach more people.

• How to Write a Letter to the Editor (PDF)
• CRT ABC News sample letter to the editor
• Draft CRT resolution for school boards (PDF)
• Multiple issues letter (PDF)
• Physical privacy letter (PDF)

Be Familiar with the Issues
The CPL website can be a go to resource! A few quick references:

• Social Emotional Learning (SEL)
• Critical Race Theory and Equity
• The 1776 Report verses The 1619 Project
• Comprehensive Sex Education
• Gender Identity
• Transgenderism
• Mask Mandates and Covid

Speaking Up

• Sex-ed curriculum used in Richfield schools asks students to role play gay sex scenarios
  Parents exposed the comprehensive sex education, 3Rs (Rights, Respect Responsibility), at the Richfield school board meeting. In just one of the many lessons, straight students are asked to role play as gay and transgender characters navigating sex scenarios. Read the article and view the testimony for a better understanding of the inappropriateness and danger of this curriculum.
• Statement to the New Ulm School District concerning Equity (PDF)
  Equity which is part of Critical Race Theory is infiltrating our schools.
• Parents Oppose Critical Race Theory at Elk River School Board Meeting
  Parents are speaking up in MN. Includes video of meeting.
• ISD 728: Concerned parents fight critical race theory: ‘If you care about our kids,’ don’t teach CRT
  Speaking up at school board meetings is making an impact. Includes video of comments.
• In a Massachusetts town: How parents are fighting – and winning – a brutal fight with school officials over aggressive LGBT middle school agenda.
  Learn what these parents did to fight against this radical agenda in their schools.
• Parents speak out at school board meeting, call BLM ‘toxic,’ ‘poisonous’
  A husband and wife speak up at a Lakeville School Board meeting in MN. “We’re here today to represent the millions of black Americans who disagree with the Black Lives Matter movement.”
• Do Better FCPS
  It started with a petition and now a web presence to hold Fairfax (Delaware) County Public school leadership and school board members accountable.
• Virginia parents rally to recall critical race theory-pushing school board members
  Bitter debate over racism in schools puts Virginia county in national spotlight