Posted on 05/15/2024 4:33:20 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Republican nominee Glenn Youngkin's gubernatorial victory in Virginia in November 2021, widely credited to his promise to restore parental rights in public schools in the Democratic-leaning state, set off panic in the national education establishment.
Newly disclosed records reveal the American Federation of Teachers hired a prominent Democratic pollster the following month to survey parents and devise messaging to shore up AFT's weaknesses – particularly by tarring dissenting parents as racists – and shared it with a senior Department of Education official.
Deputy Assistant Secretary Montserrat Garibay, who came to the feds from the Texas chapter of the AFL-CIO, which counts AFT as an affiliate, is all over the first two-thirds of the 416-page Freedom of Information Act production.
It was obtained by the government watchdog Functional Government Initiative through a lawsuit filed against the department nearly two years ago.
"FYI," Garibay wrote in forwarding an email Dec. 13, 2021 from an AFT government affairs staffer, about the group's New Hampshire affiliate's lawsuit against the state for its "divisive concepts" law, to department colleagues including Office for Civil Rights Director Catherine Lhamon.
The AFT email says the "Koch-funded Moms for Liberty 'bounties' on teachers and the right-wing echo chamber of hate are creating a frightening environment for educators," who are "receiving unprecedented amounts of threats and ugly messages."
FGI, which has previously exposed federal-Twitter election collaboration, "dark money" influence at the Department of the Interior and President Biden's former COVID adviser scolding the CDC for overstating mask protection, sought "emails (with attachments), calendar items, text messages, memos and virtual meeting logs" that include "critical race theory" or "CRT."
FGI Communications Director Pete McGinnis told Just the News the group received the batch in December 2023 but took until this week to fully analyze it.
He wrote in a statement "the gulf between the education establishment and parents has never been greater, and it shows in the antagonistic language featured in these records," which illustrate that "the Education Department seems to be in a bunker with like-minded teachers’ unions and academics."
The court docket shows the feds have continued making document dumps, including 165 pages since a Feb. 26 joint status report, according to the latest update from the parties April 26. McGinnis said FGI is currently analyzing that batch....
What would happen if the woke teachers tried to transgender the child of a Latin Kings leader?
Defund public schools NOW! Communists have taken over. We have to burn the village to save it.
Union workers need to be taught extreme prejudice.
Most educational administrators need blindfolds and cigarettes.
In say that as someone trained as a school administrator.
Outrageous bookmark
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BTTT
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