PODCAST | “Freedom to Learn”: What Does Returning Education to the States Mean?
Haley Sanon, Acting Assistant Secretary for OESE, joins Freedom to Learn to talk about the U.S. Department of Education’s first… Read More
PRESS RELEASE: DFI Report: Teacher Unions Fuel Anti-Semitism and Anti-Israel Indoctrination in America’s Schools
Washington, D.C. – The Defense of Freedom Institute (DFI) today released a powerful new report exposing how America’s teacher… Read More
PRESS RELEASE: DFI Files Federal Civil Rights Complaint Against Fairfax County Public Schools for Authorizing a Boy to Repeatedly Use the Girls’ Locker Room
Complaint urges OCR to hold FCPS accountable for violating Title IX WASHINGTON – The Defense of Freedom Institute for Policy Studies… Read More
PRESS RELEASE: Defense of Freedom Institute Files Supreme Court Amicus Brief Defending Women’s Sports
DFI urges Court to end lower courts’ gender confusion and restore clarity to Title IX WASHINGTON – The Defense of Freedom… Read More
PODCAST | “Freedom to Learn”: Dr. Marty West on NAEP Results, Smartphones, & the Future of National Assessments
The latest Nation’s Report Card scores are truly terrible: 12th-grade scores reached historic lows… Read More
Education Next | Op-Ed: Rulemaking Must Resolve Ambiguities in Federal School Choice Law—and Fast
Congress has given the U.S. Treasury Department responsibility for the success or failure of a mechanism that could generate scholarships… Read More
PRESS RELEASE: Defense of Freedom Institute Hires Holly Pitt Young as Director of Development
WASHINGTON—The Defense of Freedom Institute for Policy Studies (DFI) has named Holly Pitt Young as its new Director of Development,… Read More
Education Week | VIDEO: Two Former Trump and Biden Appointees Hash Out What’s Ahead in Ed. Policy
In May, when Education Week Opinion invited Jim Blew and Roberto Rodriguez to have a conversation on video… Read More
PODCAST: “Freedom to Learn” | Rabbi A.D. Motzen on the Coalition Efforts Behind the Federal Scholarship Tax Credit
Rabbi A.D. Motzen joined Freedom to Learn to explain how the new federal scholarship tax credit empowers parents and students… Read More
PRESS RELEASE: DFI Urges First Circuit to Strike Down Massachusetts’ Unconstitutional Regulation Discriminating Against Children with Special Needs
WASHINGTON—The Defense of Freedom Institute for Policy Studies (DFI) filed an amicus brief in Hellman v. Read More
PODCAST: “Freedom to Learn” | John Schilling on the New Federal School Choice Tax Credit, Rulemaking Realities, & the Future of School Choice
On July 4, 2025, President Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, embedding a 100% non-refundable federal scholarship tax… Read More
PRESS RELEASE: New DFI Legal Analysis Finds Transferring Student Loan Program to SBA Requires Congressional Action
WASHINGTON—A new legal analysis released today from the Defense of Freedom Institute for Policy Studies (DFI) finds that the Executive… Read More
PODCAST: “Freedom to Learn” | Jason Bedrick on School Choice Whoppers, New Hampshire’s EFAs, & What Happens Next
School choice trailblazer Jason Bedrick joined the Freedom to Learn podcast this week to explore the evolution of education… Read More
PRESS RELEASE: DFI Celebrates the Senate’s Passage of a Scholarship Tax Credit
WASHINGTON—Upon the Senate’s passage of a scholarship tax credit, the Defense of Freedom Institute’s Co-Founders Bob Eitel… Read More
PRESS RELEASE: Kansas Attorney General Calls on Department of Education to Investigate DFI’s Title IX Complaint Against Several School Districts in the State
WASHINGTON—Today, Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Education urging its Office for Civil… Read More
PODCAST: “The Education Exchange” | One Big Beautiful Tax Credit Scholarship?
Jim Blew, co-founder of the Defense of Freedom Institute, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss a school choice provision in H.R. 1, the U.S. Read More
Madison Yandell, Gov. Greg Abbott’s education advisor, and Vanessa Tanner, chief of staff to the House education committee chairman,… Read More
PODCAST: “Freedom to Learn” | A Colorado Mother’s Fight Against Gender Ideology in Schools
Erin Lee, a Colorado mother and founder of Protect Kids Colorado, joins Freedom to Learn this week to share her transformation… Read More
PRESS RELEASE: DFI Files Federal Civil Rights Complaint Against NY School District as Male Student Switches Gender Identity Throughout the Day and Uses Girls’ Locker Room, Bathrooms
WASHINGTON – The Defense of Freedom Institute for Policy Studies (DFI) filed a civil rights complaint with the U.S. Department of… Read More
PODCAST: “Freedom to Learn” | Tony de Nicola on School Choice in the “Big, Beautiful” Reconciliation Bill
The House budget reconciliation bill includes a $5 billion annual federal tax credit modeled after the Educational Choice for… Read More
The Federalist | Op-Ed: New Title IX Proposal Could End Gender Theory ‘Whiplash’ Forever
One of the issues with Title IX, the law that protects the civil rights and equality of men and women at school from K-12 through college,… Read More
PRESS RELEASE: On Fifth Anniversary of DeVos Rule, DFI Releases Its Model Title IX Law, the ‘RESPECT Title IX Act’
WASHINGTON—On the fifth anniversary of the DeVos Title IX regulations, the Defense of Freedom Institute for Policy Studies (DFI) today… Read More
Federalist Society Blog | The Supreme Court’s 2023 Term: Return to Original Meaning or a Dangerous “Paradigm Shift”?
Each Supreme Court term over the past several years seems to produce more momentous decisions than the last. Read More