Civil rights, bibliophile, cub-raiser, oenophile. Sr. Counsel DoEd #45; fmr Sr. Legal Fellow @Heritage; VP, @DefendingEd. The lawyer you were warned about. VAMO
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This won’t be an easy post. Nothing about cancer is. And when the patient is your 17 yr old son? It is harder still.
Jesse has acute T-cell lymphoblastic Leukemia (T-ALL). His treatment will last 2-3 years & impact his junior and senior years.
The next few weeks will be a whirlwind - and very difficult for Jesse. We have already logged 26 hospital nights (both on the oncology floor and in the ICU) based on how aggressive his treatments need to be: a necessary function of a cancer equally aggressive. Please pray for Jesse’s pain level and endurance.
His brother Noah and sister Grace back at their respective colleges and will need their own type of strength to do the work before them. Please pray for their peace of mind.
One thing is clear in all of this: God’s purpose in this trial is a good one, and He is continually trustworthy.
He is good, all the time.
“The Lord watches over your coming and going both now and forevermore.”
Psalm 121:8
I am beyond grateful for the help of dear colleagues and friends and especially to @nickineily @malcolm_john @AmySwearer and @cullystimson who have exceeded every kindness I thought possible, and who put together this way to help:
givesendgo.com/supporting-je….
⏰SCOTUS grants cert in another school case:
In Assoc. for ED. Fairness v. Montgomery Bd. of Ed., the Court will determine whether a plaintiff challenging a facially neutral admissions policy as racially discriminatory must establish that the targeted racial group suffered an aggregate disparate impact.
Since the Court's ruling in Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp. (1977), circuits have split over disparate-impact liability in school admissions, and the Court will tackle that split head-on this term.
This is a timely grant, coming on the heels of the DOJ's final rule eliminating disparate-impact liability from its Title VI regulations.
Students for Fair Admission v. Harvard was anything but the last word on using race in education.
In July, the @usedgov followed suit, and formally rescinded disparate impact provisions on Title VI promulgated under previous administrations.
Sarah Parshall Perry retweeted
The Trump admin will soon decide whether to strip the American Bar Association’s (ABA) law school accrediting arm of federal recognition.
"These law students are actually going to get a better education. Because we get the ABA meddling away from curricular inclusions, and we get them away from race mandates in admissions and in hiring and promotions, we get back to ground zero on making excellent lawyers." -@SarahPPerry of @DefendingEd
I will never forget watching his confirmation hearing, in which he said he would rather die than back down from bullies. His tenacity, integrity, & intellect were as evident then as they have been in all of his opinions, since.
Congratulations, Justice Thomas.
Sarah Parshall Perry retweeted
🚨@DefendingEd filed a civil rights complaint with @usedgov’s OCR after Kalamazoo Public Schools and its teachers’ union established race-based staffing targets and preferences that can put race ahead of seniority.
He was right.
And it was.
Obergefell was not our nation’s slippery slope - but its judicial cliff from which all manner of identitarianism has sprung.
Alito’s Obergefell dissent was prescient as he is.
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito says in a new book that he believes the court's landmark decision extending marriage rights to same-sex couples was "perhaps the decisive point in our nation's turn against religious liberty."
Read more: abcnews.link/M860KYr
Sarah Parshall Perry retweeted
Seems like a perfect day to share this trove of information about the NSBA letter and the insanity that followed.
defendinged.org/nsba/
Today, the Justice Department’s Weaponization Working Group issued a report detailing how Biden Administration officials at the Department of Justice explored avenues to prosecute parents and protestors who spoke to school boards and school officials during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Records show Biden White House and Justice Department leadership pushed for a memo which sought to find a federal “hook” to prosecute parents and charge protestors with federal crimes, despite widespread concerns from attorneys and agents.
This report follows letters sent earlier today by Department of Justice and @usedgov leadership to all 50 state attorneys general on parental rights.
Read more about the report here: justice.gov/opa/pr/weaponiza…
ALT Weaponization Working Group Releases Report on Garland Memo That Chilled Parental Rights and Warned Parents Could Be Domestic Terrorists
Climate change, freedom of religion, gun rights, parental rights and a whole lot more on tap this term.
Happy SCOTUS opening day to all who celebrate!
Sarah Parshall Perry retweeted
"Student loans have been a millstone around the neck of many college grads for years, but the Department of Education is enacting reforms to help prevent more young people from falling into this debt trap..."
Latest w/ @SarahPPerry in @townhallcom:
townhall.com/columnists/ej-a…
Our new report at @DefendingEd just dropped. This is a first-of-its-kind ranking of all 50 states on the cultural issues that matter most to parents: gender & sexuality, DEI, foreign influence, unions, & parental rights.
Tennessee tops the list!
Where does your state rank?
Tennessee tops the nation in a first-ever ranking of all 50 states on the education battles gripping classrooms — and red states dominated the board.
Defending Education's new report scores every state and Washington, D.C., across five categories: parental rights, DEI, gender and sexuality, teacher and union policies, and foreign influence. Alabama, Florida, North Carolina and Iowa rounded out the top five. Washington, D.C., ranked dead last, followed by Rhode Island, California, Oregon and Illinois.
The rankings don't measure test scores or graduation rates. Instead, they track how states are handling the hot-button policy fights parents have been demanding answers on — from transgender athletes in women's sports to Chinese government influence in schools to restrictions on DEI initiatives. Seven red states received perfect scores on laws restricting Chinese government influence in education, including bans on Confucius Institutes.
Full story here foxnews.com/politics/states-…
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Education expert Sarah Parshall Perry weighs in with an important comparison: xitter.cf/SarahPPerry/status/210…
Finally - the national nightmare of Biden’s Title IX’s rewrite (enjoined or vacated by no fewer than 11 federal courts) - comes to an end.
Today, @usedgov has formally rescinded the rule, removing it from the federal register.
Do drag show restrictions on public university campuses violate the First Amendment?
Today, the en banc 5th Circuit Court of Appeals will hear arguments on that issue.
Federal judges reached opposite conclusions on two Texas A&M drag-show bans. In a few minutes, all 17 judges on the 5th Circuit will hear both cases and consider whether public universities can bar such performances without violating the First Amendment texastribune.org/2026/09/23/…
Sarah Parshall Perry retweeted
Breaking News: At least six hospitals have struck deals with the Trump administration to stop providing gender-transition treatments to minors.
nyti.ms/4AtuwI2
Sarah Parshall Perry retweeted
Tomorrow is a big day for the future of ABA accreditation. NACIQI, the advisory committee that evaluates accreditors for the Department of Education, will be reviewing the ABA and listening to public comment. We’ve covered this from the beginning @DefendingEd 🧵
Sarah Parshall Perry retweeted
A new name doesn’t erase an old framework.
LPS may have changed its department name, but its still targeted advocacy based on student identity remains. @DefendingEd’s @SarahPPerry explains why rebranding DEI doesn’t change what’s happening underneath.
Sarah Parshall Perry retweeted
It has been three years since the Court's ruling in SFFA v. Harvard, and institutions still continue to defy the decision. It’s clear that higher education isn’t inclined to comply on its own.
“The court’s ruling was clear enough. What’s missing is enforcement with teeth. Right now, an institution caught running a race-proxy scheme risks, at worst, a strongly worded finding and a promise to do better. That’s not a deterrent; it’s a cost of doing business, no different than a compliance fine a hedge fund writes off before lunch.”
Sarah Parshall Perry retweeted
Second WORST
Baltimore City Schools is named the SECOND WORST school district in America in Daily Rank Dept.’s “50 Worst” report.
The ranking compares academic performance, graduation rates, college readiness.
Baltimore schools get $24,705 per student. The MOST in Maryland.
Sarah Parshall Perry retweeted
It’s bad enough that Nikole Hannah-Jones sacrificed her child’s education to her racial ideology, but she experienced the dismal results—and *learned literarily nothing from the experience*.
You’d think she’d be radicalized against the teacher unions and the complacent, self-serving NYC education bureaucracy—which is run by people who agree with her politically—but apparently it doesn’t even occur to her.
If there’s one lesson she should have taken from this experience, it’s that consequential decisions about your child’s future shouldn’t be driven by an obsession with racial solidarity.
That’s not how the NYC white and Asian parents that Hannah-Jones scorns think about educational decisions—overwhelmingly, they simply don’t want the prospects of their children blighted by scandalously incompetent schools.
They freak-out if their kids aren’t getting homework, if the lunch period is unsupervised mayhem, etc., not as part of a conspiracy to leave behind black kids, but out of a intense focus on their duty as parents to see that their own children are getting the best education possible.
Nikole HannahJones clearly could have learned a lot from them.
nytimes.com/2026/09/20/magaz…
