On October 4, Attorney General Merrick Garland directed the FBI to mobilize against parents who oppose the teaching of critical race theory (CRT) in schools. This came shortly after the National School Boards Association (NBSA) sent a letter to President Biden, which slandered parents expressing their concerns about leftist indoctrination as “domestic terrorists.”

This year, FreedomWorks’ BEST (Building Education for Students Together) program has traveled across the country to train thousands of parents on how they can take back their school board one seat at a time. It’s clear that parents are eager to take action.

On behalf of FreedomWorks’ activist community, I urge you to contact your representative and ask him or her to cosponsor the Stop CRT Act, H.R. 3179, introduced by Rep. Dan Bishop (R-N.C.).

This month, FreedomWorks Foundation’s Regulatory Action Center and Building Education for Students Together (BEST) initiative have joined forces to push back against federal control of civics education. In a new proposed rule by the Department of Education (ED), the Biden administration is seeking to add new strings to educational grants that would require public schools to teach radical and contentious curriculum like critical race theory (CRT).

FreedomWorks is proud to announce that our member of the month for April 2021 is Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.). A new member now representing Florida’s 19th Congressional District in the southwest part of the state, Rep. Donalds came to Washington as a FreedomWorks For America-endorsed candidate after years of public service representing his fellow Floridians in the Florida House of Representatives.

As the United States approaches the one-year anniversary of COVID-19 lockdowns being imposed across the nation, Democrats and their allies in the teachers unions continue to falsely claim that schools can’t be reopened safely. Thankfully, millions of parents on both sides of the political spectrum are beginning to see through these lies.

On behalf of FreedomWorks’ activist community, I urge you to contact your representative and ask him or her to cosponsor the Student Loan Reform Act, H.R. 1586, introduced by Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.). This bill would establish a program under which colleges and universities can cosign all eligible direct loans made to their students in exchange for the ability to offer lower interest rates on such loans. Allowing for institutions of higher learning to cosign student loans presents a much-needed market-based solution to the student debt crisis by incentivizing such institutions to take more responsibility for their students’ futures while also encouraging students to choose higher education paths more wisely and seek degrees that institutions stand behind.

THIS LEGISLATIVE SESSION, which kicks off in Florida in less than two weeks, legislators should, and in areas are poised to, continue their state's leadership on principles of free markets in critical areas.

On behalf of FreedomWorks’ activist community, I urge you to contact your senators and ask them to cosponsor legislation to terminate the Department of Education, S. 323. Introduced by Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), this bill would do one simple thing -- return decision-making on public education back to where it belongs: states and local communities.