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Today the NEA stood down after trying to block a Rhode Island mom’s attempt to find out if Critical Race Theory is being taught in her daughter's school >>>
BREAKING: The National Education Association — the nation’s largest public sector teachers’ union with a budget of over $300 million — has sued a Rhode Island mom for asking what her daughter would be taught in kindergarten.
Nicole Solas wanted to know what her daughter would be taught in kindergarten.
Her school district hit her w/a $74K bill for asking. But she hasn’t stopped fighting for academic transparency.
We're thrilled to honor
@Nicoletta0602
with the Goldwater Institute Freedom Award.
Putin is waging war on freedom.
@Kasparov63
spoke to Goldwater about why it is so imperative for America to defend it.
"Standing up for freedom, especially when it is under great threat, reinforces the blessings you have here in the free world."
“A parent shouldn’t have to have their child in a school, find material that is clearly not academically appropriate, and now be faced with a decision of grumbling to a school board who may or may not be sympathetic to them, or take their kid out of school." -
@MBeienburg
IT'S OFFICIAL! SCHOOL CHOICE FOR ALL IN ARIZONA!
Today, Governor
@DougDucey
held a signing ceremony for Goldwater's groundbreaking school choice bill—the most expansive school choice bill in the history of the USA!
Read about this momentous event here:
The school charged a mom $74K to find out what her daughter would learn in kindergarten.
Unacceptable.
That's why
@nicoletta0602
will testify at the AZ legislature today in support of Goldwater's
#AcademicTransparency
reform.
Watch live at 2 pm MT:
WATCH: RI mom Nicole Solas has a message for the public education bureaucrats who sued her for asking to see a kindergarten curriculum:
"Parents have an absolute right to know what their kids are learning in school,”
@Nicoletta0602
tells
@DailySignal
.
Throughout his life, Barry Goldwater worked to make Arizona an example of how having more freedom can improve people’s lives. That’s a torch the Goldwater Institute is proud to carry—and one you’ll be seeing a lot of in 2021.
1 in 5.
That's how many job candidates in academia are formally evaluated based on their commitment to "Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion,"
@maxeden99
and
@scottyenor
write in
@theammind
!
Here's what Goldwater is doing about it:
RI mom Nicole Solas was sued by the nation's largest teachers union for asking the wrong questions.
Now
@Nicoletta0602
is championing
#AcademicTransparency
.
“Parents have an absolute right to know what their kids are learning in school."
@DailySignal
BREAKING: A mom in Rhode Island is fighting to get information about what is being taught in schools.
We’ve joined with the Stephen Hopkins Center for Civil Rights to represent her in a complaint before the state attorney general.
"No parent should be afraid that they’re going to be publicly attacked & sued just to know what their kids are learning in school,"
@Nicoletta0602
told AZ lawmakers.
That's why Goldwater is fighting to shine a light on what's happening in the classroom:
"It's not a game,"
@Nicoletta0602
tells the AZ Senate Education Committee after she was stonewalled, harassed, & sued for asking to see a kindergarten curriculum.
Parents deserve better. That's why we need
#AcademicTransparency
NOW.
AZ Gov. Doug Ducey on parents' rights:
“Parents deserve respect. Let’s require that all a child is taught, all curriculum and academic materials should be available online for review for every parent, grandparent, & concerned citizen.”
#AZUnstoppable
@dougducey
@NancyBarto
When Nicole Solas tried to find out what her daughter would be learning in kindergarten, the nation's largest teachers union sued her.
The union "really wants to just immunize their teachers from public scrutiny as public employees,"
@Nicoletta0602
told
@newsmax
.
The left just launched an attack on 70,000 kids and their families. But we have a message for
@GovernorHobbs
: Not. Going. To. Happen.
Plus: National media praises Goldwater's wins over DEI!
That and more:
Governor
@katiehobbs
wants to rip funding from 30,000 students who benefit from AZ's school choice reform.
Here's the good news: She can't.
Goldwater will defend families from any effort to illegally undermine or restrict access to this program:
"How do you even deal with that as a parent, imagining 2 of your 3 kids will soon be gone?"
The Rileys faced the unthinkable as their young daughters battled the same fatal disease.
Goldwater's
#RightToTry
for Individualized Treatments offers hope to families out of options.
.
@Nicoletta0602
on battling growing wokeness in our schools:
"You will be retaliated against. Embrace dissent...Get a good rest because tomorrow, you all have work to do."
#GoldwaterAnnualDinner
A popular professor at Arizona State University could face discipline—all because he won’t take the school’s DEI training.
Today, Goldwater sued ASU for using taxpayer funds to mandate DEI training among faculty—in violation of state law:
A mom in Maine is demanding answers after a school counselor secretly advised her 13-year-old daughter to change her gender AND encouraged her not to tell her parents about it.
Now, Goldwater is defending her parental rights:
Concerned mom Nicole Solas tried to attend a PUBLIC
#BIPOC
meeting, yet she was blocked out.
“At the end of the day, parents... have a right to be present when the public’s business is being conducted," Goldwater's Jon Riches tells
@news_ntd
:
Concerned mom
@nicoletta0602
stood strong when public ed. bullies attacked her.
Tomorrow, she'll urge the AZ legislature to pass our
#AcademicTransparency
reform requiring public schools to post their learning materials online.
Watch live at 2 pm MT:
"Talking about socialism in America is a luxury paid for by the successes of capitalism,"
@Kasparov63
said.
But do supporters of socialism in America even understand what socialism is?
TENNESSEE INFRINGES ON LAWYER'S RIGHT TO EARN A LIVING!
Violaine is a highly qualified attorney. But the TN government won't let her practice.
That's why we're defending Violaine's right to earn a living in the TN Supreme Court. Read more HERE:
Open to the public? Not really.
"I wasn’t allowed to see any of it," concerned mom Nicole Solas tells
@realDailyWire
after she was denied access to secret school district meetings.
We're representing Nicole and suing the school district:
Curriculum changed?
Money allocated?
Parents. Not. Allowed...
Nicole Solas was blocked from attending a public meeting. The Goldwater Institute is defending her and suing the school district that illegally kept PUBLIC information hidden
@EpochTimes
:
NEW GOLDWATER REPORT: We just debunked the anti-school choice narrative that ESAs only help the wealthy.
In fact, that couldn't be further from the truth...
Read for yourself from Goldwater’s
@MBeienburg
:
NEW CASE: ESA families are under attack!
Two homeschool moms wanted to give their children the best individualized education they could using ESAs…but then the government changed the rules, imposing a crushing new burden.
The Goldwater Institute SUES:
The teachers union's lawsuit against concerned mom
@Nicoletta0602
destroys education bureaucrats' own narrative.
“They’re painting parents as these radical aggressors, when really, we just want to know what our kids are being taught," Nicole tells
@ShaunKraisman
on
@Newsmax
.
Nicole Solas was worried the public education establishment would indoctrinate her daughter with politically-charged ideologies like CRT.
So
@Nicoletta0602
asked to see what is in her daughter's kindergarten curriculum:
How do we hold public schools accountable when they indoctrinate children with Critical Race Theory?
Simple: sunlight. That's why our
#SunlightInLearning
Act protects parents' right to know what their children are learning:
This teacher just ripped into California public schools for force-feeding children the lies of Critical Race Theory.
“Our schools have turned into indoctrination camps,"
@KaliFontanilla
told
@FoxNews
'
@IngrahamAngle
.
School choice for all just became a reality!
This universal ESA expansion empowers families to choose the best schooling option for their children regardless of their zip code.
What an incredible day for Arizona families.
#SchoolChoice
Our kids will no longer be locked in under-performing schools. Today, their future success is unlocked. With this legislation, Arizona will now be the first state in the nation to offer all families the option to choose the school setting that works best for them. 2/
BREAKING: TX mom slapped w/ $1,300 bill to see a school book list!
Jenny filed a public records request with
@FortWorthISD
because she wanted to know what her child would be reading in school!
We're taking action to hold the school district accountable:
In a huge win for Arizonans, the Arizona Supreme Court rejected a bid by leftwing activists to change the state’s election laws to allow online signature-gathering for ballot initiatives.
BREAKING: Arizona takes another step forward in the fight for parental rights! The Academic Transparency Act SB 1211, which allows parents to know what is being taught in their kid's classrooms, has just passed the Senate!
@NancyBarto
Another victory for
#AcademicTransparency
!
@GovRonDeSantis
just signed a bill that protects Florida parents' rights by empowering them to find out what their children are learning in K-12 schools.
Obamacare has not delivered for Arizona.
Under the Affordable Care Act, average monthly insurance premiums have more than doubled.
The number of available insurers has dwindled.
🧵 STICK WITH US…
In 2022, Arizona captured the nation’s attention by adopting the country’s first universal education savings account (ESA) program, giving every child in the state the opportunity to access an education that is right for THEM! ✏️
The school board tried to humiliate her for asking to see a kindergarten curriculum.
The district charged her $74K for public records.
The nation's largest teachers union sued her.
But
@Nicoletta0602
never stopped standing up for her parental rights &
#AcademicTransparency
.
”The American Dream is alive and well!”
Take it from national education innovator
@KaliFontanilla
. Goldwater’s new children’s book, “A Is for the American Dream” is available NOW! 🇺🇸
Buy it here:
VICTORY IN VA! Public school officials tried to silence two Virginia moms who wanted to expose how the district was spending taxpayer dollars.
With the help of
@GoldwaterInst
, they fought back and won a victory for parents and for the First Amendment:
AZ Gov.
@dougducey
unveils plans to curb overzealous bureaucrats' ability to infringe on the right to earn a living:
The occupational licensing rulemaking moratorium would “ensure that AZ is always the land of economic freedom and opportunity for all," he says.
#AZUnstoppable
“At its core, this bill recognizes that parents, not the state, are the guardians of our children and that they are best equipped to direct their upbringing and education.”
Goldwater’s
@MBeienburg
urges AZ lawmakers to expand ESA eligibility to every family in the state
#HB2853
VICTORY! Universal ESAs are now law in Arizona!
More than one million kids and thousands of families will now be able to choose the right educational path for their unique needs. We're thankful for everyone who helped make
#SchoolChoice
a reality!
MORE:
Stonewalling parents.
Hiding public information.
Charging exorbitant amounts of money.
This is what
@Nicoletta0602
and so many other parents face when they want to know what their kids are learning at school.
Read more on
@FoxNews
here:
Arizona Proposition 208 will result in 124,000 fewer new jobs over the next decade, and a loss of $2.4 billion in state and local taxes.
But Prop 208 isn’t just bad economic policy—it’s also illegal. We're suing to stop it.
VICTORY FOR DUE PROCESS! Today marks a great day for due process and property rights in Arizona thanks to the enactment of sweeping civil asset forfeiture reform.
"There is no worse feeling in the world than knowing you’re going to die with no freedom to try medicines or drugs that might actually save you." Today, there's new hope.
#RightToTry
"Nicole won't be bullied, intimidated, or silenced. She's still fighting for her daughter, and for all of us," Goldwater's
@cmsandefur
said of
@Nicoletta0602
at the
#GoldwaterAnnualDinner
.
Congratulations to Nicole Solas, winner of our Freedom Award:
Rhode Island mom
@Nicoletta0602
demanded transparency from a school district that barred her from attending secret meetings of the "BIPOC" Advisory Board, AND THEN denied the existence of public records that were in their possession.
Goldwater stood up for her rights and WE WON!
THAT'S NOT LEGAL...
AZ school districts are poised to violate state law this week when they use taxpayer dollars to send representatives to a politically motivated meeting where attendees will be encouraged to help overturn Arizona’s new universal school reform.
Attacking moms for exercising their First Amendment freedoms? This Virginia school board should be ashamed of its behavior. That's why
@GoldwaterInst
is taking action in their defense.
1/3 proficient in reading.
1/4 proficient in math.
1 in 10 proficient in U.S. history.
American 8th-graders are struggling academically. New 1619 Project "reparations math" couldn't come at a worse time:
@MBeienburg
in
@NRO
:
The American Dream is important… that’s why every parent and child should read about it! Goldwater's new children’s book, “A Is for the American Dream,” is available NOW 🗽🤩🇺🇸
Learn about it here:
“When you submit a public records request, they’re trying to then sell you information.”
“This is all information they could just post online...They don’t have to charge moms and dads a price just to know what your kids are learning.”
@Nicoletta0602
1619 Project's
@nhannahjones
: Parents don't need curriculum transparency, just "ask the teacher."
Rhode Island mom
@Nicoletta0602
: "They sued me for asking."
Here's why Goldwater's fight to protect parents' rights is so important:
"Look to Arizona!"
Thank you to
@arthurbrooks
for joining us yesterday and his thoughts on Arizona's success,
@dougducey
's leadership, and the
@GoldwaterInst
's hard work in setting an example for the nation.
🚩A public school in Maine encouraged a 13-year-old girl to change genders—and to keep it from her parents.🚩
Her mom was kept in the dark. Now, the mom is fighting back. Here’s the letter a Goldwater attorney sent to the school district to uphold her rights:
It's a great day for liberty in Arizona!
@dougducey
signed a law sponsored by
@MichelleUgenti
eliminating costly, time-consuming licenses for blow-dry stylists.
It's a victory for citizens’ right to earn a living without permission from the government.
"All parents have the right to know what their kids are taught in the classroom,"
@Nicoletta0602
writes in
@townhallcom
.
"If schools are so proud of what they teach, why do they go to such great lengths to hide it?"
If passed, the $1 billion price tag of Prop 208 will put Arizona on par with California and New York as one of the worst states in the country when it comes to taxes.
#NOon208
#DontCaliforniaMyArizona
The danger of retaliation is what led the Supreme Court in the 1950s to declare that state laws forcing organizations to disclose their donor information are virtually always unconstitutional.
#donorprivacy
#SCOTUS
NPR published a wildly misleading story about concerned mom
@Nicoletta0602
, her battle against union bullies, and Goldwater's fight for parents' rights.
Here's the truth:
Rep.
@NancyMace
gave Goldwater a shoutout for helping innocent grandmother Malinda Harris get her car back after the gov't stole it w/out accusing her of a crime.
"Thank the Goldwater Institute, for stepping up and helping you, too, Ms. Harris."
#stopcivilforfeiture
The unimaginable has been happening in Phoenix's homeless "Zone" for months.
But this week, a judge ordered the city of Phoenix to address the crisis, offering hope for everyone involved.
Goldwater's
@TimothySandefur
discusses it with
@AandGShow
:
She was trying to find out if her daughter's school would be teaching CRT in kindergarten.
But the education bullies don't give in that easily.
@Nicoletta0602
tells her story to
@NRO
's The Editors pod below:
GREAT NEWS: The U.S. Supreme Court just struck “Chevron deference”—a decades-old precedent that forced courts to “defer” to unelected bureaucrats' interpretation of the law.
Read more about the decision here:
You have to hear it to believe it...
"They're being sneaky and deceptive on purpose because they're doing controversial work," Rhode Island mom Nicole Solas tells
@JimPolito
.👇
“They had a 5-hour-long public school board meeting where they openly discussed my moral character. They called me racist," Rhode Island mom
@Nicoletta0602
tells
@DailySignal
.
But Nicole stood up to the bullies.
She stood up for
#AcademicTransparency
When government mandates a wage increase, jobs suffer. When government mandates a benefit increase, wages suffer. Shouldn’t workers be free to choose an employment arrangement that best suits their own needs?