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Defense of Freedom Institute retweeted
What Education Freedom Tax Credit implementation actions should states, scholarship granting organizations (SGOs), and donors take between now and the end of the year?
Ashling Preston with @SchoolChoiceNow says:
▪️ Governors must opt in by 1/1/27 so students in their states can receive scholarships next year. The Treasury Department's temporary regulations clarify "exactly what the states need to do to opt in."
▪️Governors' offices should establish an EFTC point person and start identifying SGOs. The deadline for states to submit SGO lists to Treasury is 2/15/27.
▪️ With Treasury's proposed rule answering a lot of operational questions, it is time for SGOs to metabolize their responsibilities and build them into their business practices.
▪️ Taxpayers can start identifying where they want to donate.
▪️ Everyone can go to regulations.gov to submit comments before the December 1 deadline.
Defense of Freedom Institute retweeted
Here's a taste of my argument in a new article on the causes and practical solutions for doctor shortages in the US in @AcademicRenewal (1/):
U.S. medical schools reject qualified applicants while hospitals increasingly rely on foreign-trained doctors to fill residency positions.
@jaypgreene on why we aren't doing more to train America's next generation of physicians
jamesgmartin.center/2026/10/…
Defense of Freedom Institute retweeted
For a short podcast summarizing the report, expertly moderated by @GinnyGentles, go here: youtube.com/watch?v=Zvv7uxKL…
Defense of Freedom Institute retweeted
It's amazing that universities would flout rules on foreign workers given that they are already exempt from all of the limits on visas that every other industry faces. Read the details in my recent report for @DFIPolicy dfi.createsend1.com/t/t-i-wk…
Trump administration investigating nine universities - including Harvard, Yale, Stanford, and MIT - for flouting foreign worker rules trib.al/Cr41xL2
Defense of Freedom Institute retweeted
The US has an open border in academia. There are no limits on F-1 or H-1B visas for universities. This open border raises the risks of getting faculty, staff, and students like Prof. Ha. dfipolicy.org/dangerous-rise…
🚨 UPDATE 🚨
Guangtian Ha, the Haverford College professor who was just arrested by the FBI for online harassment is a Muslim from China.
He was hiding behind 4 anonymous “MAGA” accounts, repeatedly threatening and harassing Jewish citizens.
Professor Ha was once described by his colleagues as, “one of the most innovative, interesting, and engaged scholars of Islam in China.”
- “Jew get the f*ck out of my country.”
- “If Jews are so special, they should be placed in special camps and receive special treatment.”
In an online interview, he said that it’s important to introduce Islam in China by showing its beauty and charm first, then discuss its politics and tenets. 😬
This lunatic arrived in our nation from Beijing for graduate studies at Columbia University.
He has a lengthy history of public antisemitism, but Haverford College refused to fire him.
We currently have 40,000 foreign professors on visas in America.
Not 400. Not 4,000. 40,000.
@StephenM
@SecRubio
H/T @sfmcguire79
Defense of Freedom Institute retweeted
This guy got a student visa to receive his PhD from Columbia and then was hired at Haverford. Every step that placed him and people like him in charge of educating the future leaders of America represents a shocking failure. dfipolicy.org/dangerous-rise…
Defense of Freedom Institute retweeted
In the US, 25% of doctors come from foreign medical schools. In the UK, it is 42%. Quality control with doctors trained in developing countries is a real challenge. In the UK, over half of doctor misconduct cases come from those trained abroad. telegraph.co.uk/gift/f128a27…
Defense of Freedom Institute retweeted
🗑️ ⚠️ Passing the trash 🤫 Teachers' unions open secret.
Thank you for fighting alongside parents @pfzimmerman @DFIPolicy!
@AZHouseGOP and @AZSenateGOP we have a pedo-demic in our state. It's time to put K-12 families first. Tell your lobbyist and union cronies to get in line behind your constituents.
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#protectkids
#parentalrights
#passthetrash
#CoverUpCulture
#cancelteachersunions
#amplifygrassrootsvoices
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Defense of Freedom Institute retweeted
"One year ago, as part of the great big beautiful bill, we passed the education freedom tax credit, the largest-ever expansion of school choice. And we want every parent to have the power to send their child to a high-quality school that shares their values. So important." @POTUS
Defense of Freedom Institute retweeted
US taxpayers fund $230M in woke ‘intersectionality’ grants studying race, class and ‘privilege’: report via @ProtectionEqual @LegInsurrection @DFIPolicy
nypost.com/2026/08/23/us-new…
Defense of Freedom Institute retweeted
Foreign funds are a serious problem but the bigger danger comes from the flow of foreign students & staff into US universities. Personnel is policy and at US universities more and more of that personnel is foreign. See my @DFIPolicy documenting this. dfipolicy.org/dangerous-rise…
For too long, billions of dollars in foreign funding have flowed into American higher education with little transparency, giving foreign adversaries opportunities to influence our schools.
@RepBaumgartner's H.R. 9602, Less Bureaucracy, Better Foreign Gift Transparency Act, transfers oversight to the Department of State—the agency best equipped to identify foreign influence and enforce the law.
Greater transparency. Stronger oversight. Better protection for America's colleges and students.🇺🇸
Defense of Freedom Institute retweeted
If you want to see more about how we've built a pipeline that is staffing US universities with an increasing number of people from abroad, read my new report from @DFIPolicy dfipolicy.org/wp-content/upl…
🚨Marco Rubio and the State Department can revoke Professor Shayoni Mitra’s H-1B visa TODAY... no notice needed.
DHS and ICE can boot her for backing violent Columbia riots, "Death to America" takeovers, and Hamas sympathizers.
Over 40k foreign profs on H-1Bs stealing American jobs. Revoke her visa now. America First.
@SecRubio @DHSgov @StateDept @ICEgov @realDonaldTrump
Defense of Freedom Institute retweeted
There's a common myth that schools are underfunded, but NYC spends $42,000 per pupil.
It's true that schools are failing and enrollment is declining, but the culprit isn't a lack of funding—it's mismanagement.
@dany_egorov discussed the issue with @DFIPolicy back in May:
Last week, NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani and City Council Speaker Julie Menin signed record-breaking education spending, amounting to 31% of the budget for fiscal year 2027.
But the schools are failing, and enrollment is declining.
More money won’t fix New York public schools' problems, @dany_egorov writes. It will only reward failure.
city-journal.org/article/new…
Defense of Freedom Institute retweeted
Every governor in every state should say yes to this opportunity, and Jim outlines four reasons why this is a no brainer.
Defense of Freedom Institute retweeted
I have a new report from @DFIPolicy. Unlike private companies, universities face no caps on hiring F-1 and H1-B visa holders. This has led to a dramatic rise in foreign workers in higher ed, changing the nature of those institutions. dfipolicy.org/dangerous-rise… 1/
Defense of Freedom Institute retweeted
LET'S GO!!! I'm incredibly proud of our @dfipolicy team, which filed the initial complaints that led to these investigations.
.@EDSecMcMahon: There will be four more Title IX investigations announced today on school districts in Maryland.
"We've not back off on this at all... it's incredibly important to @POTUS, to this administration that we uphold women's and girls' rights to have safe places and to have equal opportunity in sports."
Defense of Freedom Institute retweeted
Great work @DFIPolicy bringing attention to civil rights violations happening here in red states.
Living in a very red Atlanta suburb (not Decatur!), I hear all the time "not in our schools" - look again parents. I wish it wasn't in our schools. Sadly it is.
Thankful that DFI is doing this work!
Decatur City Schools, Georgia, follows policies that violate Title IX and Title VI. DFI's Paul Zimmerman unpacks the issue in the @dcexaminer.
Defense of Freedom Institute retweeted
You can change the name. You can move the office. You can (try to) hide the curriculum.
But parents know, CRT and DEI are still there. Quieter? Sometimes. But still in our schools. Waiting to roar.
Great work by @DFIPolicy exposing the WOKE down here in GA.
Title VI is powerful. Parents need to use it.
Defense of Freedom Institute retweeted
Student at @CabCoSchools BLASTS board for allowing males in girl’s bathrooms
When girls complained they were told they should find a different bathroom to use if they’re uncomfortable.
This district is currently under investigation by @usedgov for Title IX violations
FAFO time
WATCH: A brave 9th-grade girl from Cabarrus County, North Carolina, spoke out against school administrators' decision allowing a trans-identifying male student to use the women's bathroom. Administrators told girls who felt uncomfortable to use a unisex restroom, rather than telling a boy to use the boys' restroom.