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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Sarah Parshall Perry retweeted
A Michigan School District is still using racial hiring quotas despite the Supreme Court's ruling in SFFA v. Harvard.
“The Supreme Court could not have been clearer in Students for Fair Admissions: public institutions that take federal money must treat people as individuals, not as representatives of a racial group.” - @SarahPPerry
nationalreview.com/news/mich…
Sarah Parshall Perry retweeted
NEW: @POTUS’ move to strip the ABA of federal recognition could reshape legal education. @DefendingEd’s @SarahPPerry explains how removing its gatekeeper status could curb ideological mandates and refocus law schools on producing excellent attorneys.
🎥 @FoxNews
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
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.
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
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:
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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.
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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…
Sarah Parshall Perry retweeted
The Department of Justice just secured an end to “gender affirming care” for minors at two more hospital systems: NYU and UPMC. Since January 20, 2025 over 40 systems have ended these procedures across the country— including six of the largest systems as a result of @TheJusticeDept lawsuits.
Hospitals that target children in these practices, and then fraudulently obtain payments for the procedures, will be held accountable.
Sarah Parshall Perry retweeted
Congratulations to the Defending Education team. I read the entire ruling and the judge really spanked the UC system for its unconstitutional policy. This is looking good for free speech. @DefendingEd @nickineily @SarahPPerry – at San Marcos, CA
University of California students who do not wish to call someone by their preferred pronouns may do so without fear of punishment thanks to a court ruling this week.
U.S. District Court Judge Fred Slaughter granted a preliminary injunction against a UC system policy that could punish students for “dead-naming” peers.
Citing precedent that “there is no categorical ‘harassment exception’ to the First Amendment’s free-speech clause,” Slaughter — a Biden appointee — ruled that the students “have demonstrated a credible threat of enforcement.”
thecollegefix.com/university…
Sarah Parshall Perry retweeted
We give extraordinary amounts of emotional energy to things Scripture tells us are “passing away” (1 John 2:17).
That does not make temporal matters irrelevant. It makes them relative.
Christ’s Kingdom will remain when every earthly kingdom is gone.
Order your loves accordingly.
Sarah Parshall Perry retweeted
On September 17, 1787, the United States Constitution was signed in Philadelphia. For 239 years, it has endured as the foundation of our system of government and a safeguard for liberty, self-government, and the rule of law.
Happy Constitution Day!
Sarah Parshall Perry retweeted
🚨Major Legal Victory: Court Restores Defending Ed’s Right to Fight for Free Speech in Schools. Defending Ed's @SarahPPerry responds👇
Sarah Parshall Perry retweeted
Can a federal district court in Chicago order Florida Attorney General @JamesUthmeierFL to stop protecting kids in an enforcement action against the American Academy of Pediatrics in Florida State Court. No, per unanimous Seventh Circuit--albeit with separate writings.
Sarah Parshall Perry retweeted
Thanks to the 7th Circuit for moving quickly on a problem that should've never reached their court in the first place.
@AmerAcadPeds must be held accountable for deceiving parents about the safety of transgender procedures on kids, and that is exactly what we are going to do.
