NAVI works to restore North American values in K-12 classrooms, opposing radical ideologies, antisemitism and anti-American & anti-Western activism in education

Joined April 2021
Two years of investigation. A documented record. Action at the federal level. NAVI’s investigation into Philadelphia’s public schools has gone beyond exposing serious concerns. It brought evidence to lawmakers, prompted federal scrutiny, and helped put antisemitism, educator misconduct, and curriculum concerns on the record. Because when the institutions entrusted with educating our children fail to protect them, documenting the problem is only the beginning. Accountability must follow.
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“High schoolers are being led into a dangerous, violent ideology by groups associated with terrorist organizations.” - NAVI Director of Research @MikaHackner 🚨 We uncovered a secret summer camp where American teens wave Hezbollah flags and study global terror tactics. Read the report in the @nypost: nypost.com/2026/10/10/us-new…
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Are you aware of what your child’s school is allowing on October 7th? High school students in multiple states are planning coordinated walkouts backed by Revolutionary Youth. This youth group is part of the Anti-Imperialist Front-USA, a coalition advocating for violent revolution, and collaborates with groups tied to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) – a U.S.-designated terror organization. Is your child’s school on their list? Find out at the NAVI K-12 Extremism Tracker: navik12tracker.substack.com/…
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LA Educators for Palestine is promoting an Oct. 7 rally: “resistance is glorious.” Arabic text: The gates of Al-Aqsa are made of iron; only a martyr can open them Members:UTLA VP Jessica Rodarte,UTLA board Iris Mendoza, CTA trainer Skye Tooley,CTA Human Rights Awardee Ron Gochez
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Revolutionary Youth chapters are springing up in high schools across the country and planning a mass walkout "for Palestine" on October 7. Revolutionary Youth is affiliated with the Anti-Imperialist Front-USA, a "Marxist-Leninist-Maoist-Communist Party." AIF-USA has held an "anti-imperialist" summer camp for Revolutionary Youth members. AIF-USA says it members must learn from Hezbollah and praises October 7. Revolutionary Youth has coordinated actions and held meetings with groups identified as part of the PFLP-linked network in the United States. For more on this story and others , follow our NAVI K-12 Extremism Tracker. navik12tracker.substack.com/…
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Revolutionary Youth chapters are springing up across the country, including Florida, Texas, Washington state, California and Indiana
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This is a nuts story: 🧵high school group planning October 7 walkouts across the US "for Palestine" have links to U.S. sanctioned including Masar Badil. Masar Badil is associated with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine navik12tracker.substack.com/…
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Our Chief Program Officer, Dana Stangel-Plowe lays out why NAVI is asking the University of Pennsylvania to address the substance of its “Teaching Beyond September 11th” curriculum. We believe students deserve historically rigorous, factually complete educational materials—particularly when those materials carry the name and authority of a major university. Read Dana's full post and NAVI's letter to Penn below.
25 years later, what are children learning about 9/11? Two weeks ago, I wrote in @CityJournal about Penn's “Teaching Beyond September 11th” curriculum — a resource that omits key facts about the attacks, says nothing about al-Qaeda’s ideology that motivated the attacks, presents contested political claims as settled fact, and repeatedly steers students toward activism.
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25 years later, what are children learning about 9/11? Two weeks ago, I wrote in @CityJournal about Penn's “Teaching Beyond September 11th” curriculum — a resource that omits key facts about the attacks, says nothing about al-Qaeda’s ideology that motivated the attacks, presents contested political claims as settled fact, and repeatedly steers students toward activism.
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Taxpayer-funded teacher training shouldn’t come with an ideological script. Yet Chicago teachers are being paid to participate in a workshop series that presents a deeply distorted view of Zionism—and they’re being asked how they’ll bring these ideas into their K–12 classrooms. This isn’t just a teachers’ union event. Public institutions are helping legitimize and credential it. We dug into the curriculum, facilitators, speakers, and classroom components.
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Read the full investigation in NAVI’s K-12 Extremism Tracker. Link in bio. 
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I should have guessed @NAVIvalues would sneak into Socialism 2026 too! 🥷 Fantastic piece from my favorite Substack. I’m especially glad they made it to Kobi Guillory’s panel, featuring the CTU teacher and FRSO member just days after his arrest.
NAVI was at the 2026 Socialism Conference. What we heard: A Chicago Teachers Union leader on the need for "revolutionary violence," Palestinian "resistance" in Pre-K, and "anti-racist" Holocaust education. Read the Full Story: navik12tracker.substack.com/…
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NAVI was at the 2026 Socialism Conference. What we heard: A Chicago Teachers Union leader on the need for "revolutionary violence," Palestinian "resistance" in Pre-K, and "anti-racist" Holocaust education. Read the Full Story: navik12tracker.substack.com/…
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NAVI’s investigation prompted today’s NYPost expose on the failures in 9/11 curriculum for K-12 students. In one glaring example, curriculum developed at UPenn “erases the victims of 9/11, erases the causes of 9/11 and instead uses the terrorist attack and its aftermath as a convenient vehicle to push a political agenda and activism onto children.” This curriculum is promoted by public schools in NYC, where the attacks killed nearly 3000 innocent people. Deep dive into the full analysis at navivalues.org/911 and read the NYPost article at nypost.com/2026/09/05/us-new…
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Great work by Aaron, @zach_kessel, and @NAVIvalues. "The Movement School has said that its goal is to create a 'revolutionary pipeline' for K-12 students." It wasn't a secret. And public school officials went ahead and hired them to spread their dangerous stupidity. A lot of people should lose their jobs over this.
EXCLUSIVE: Philadelphia public schools hosted prison abolition workshops for students as young as 7th grade taught by a convicted felon who has argued that Jews control the media and was involved in torching a police car. The sessions took place at the at the Workshop School, where zero percent of students are proficient in math. Story w/@zach_kessel: freebeacon.com/america/phila…
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Parents deserve to know what’s happening inside their children’s schools. Official district emails obtained by NAVI show Philadelphia public schools partnering with the Abolition School—an organization that openly describes its goal as building a “revolutionary pipeline” in K-12 education. Students as young as 12 were brought into workshops on school property, using school resources, with district educators and administrators involved. Parents have a right to know what’s happening inside their children’s schools. Follow NAVI for more investigations into K-12 education across America.
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How do you teach 9/11 without actually teaching about 9/11? “Teaching Beyond September 11th,” developed through the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education, is being promoted and used as a resource for classrooms across the country. We looked closely at what it teaches students—and what it leaves out. The findings raise serious questions about whether students are being taught to understand 9/11, or being taught a particular ideological framework through it. NAVI’s full report breaks it down. Our Action Guide shows you what you can do about it.
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What if the ideology claiming to fight oppression is actually creating a new form of it? Punctuality. Objectivity. Written records. Individualism. “Worship of the written word.” These aren’t “white” values. They’re human values. Yet a growing ideology is racializing them—and teaching institutions to see universal standards as oppressive. That doesn’t create equality. It lowers expectations, erodes accountability, and ultimately disempowers the very people these institutions are meant to serve. Read NAVI’s Josh Weiner’s latest op-ed in the Washington Examiner, where he examines how we got here—and why it matters.
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