News Dec 1, 2025
Fox News | Op-Ed: Want wokeness out of schools? End woke teacher training
Education Freedom, Teacher Unions, Title IX and Equal Protection, Title VI and Equal Protection
News Nov 19, 2025
PRESS RELEASE: New DFI Report Shows Despite Cratering Public Support, Teacher Unions Fight to Keep DEI and Gender Ideology Alive
Civil and Constitutional Rights, K-12 Education, Teacher Unions, Title IX and Equal Protection
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REPORT | Fall of Woke?
K-12 Education, Teacher Unions
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VIDEO: Highlights from DFI’s 2025 Education Law & Policy Conference
Civil and Constitutional Rights, Education Freedom, Federal Oversight, Foreign Influence in Higher Education, K-12 Education, Post Secondary Education, Student Loans, Teacher Unions, Title IX and Equal Protection
News Sep 25, 2025
PRESS RELEASE: DFI Report: Teacher Unions Fuel Anti-Semitism and Anti-Israel Indoctrination in America’s Schools
K-12 Education, Teacher Unions, Title VI and Equal Protection
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REPORT | Breaking Solidarity: How Anti-Semitic Activists Turned Teacher Unions Against Israel
K-12 Education, Teacher Unions
News Aug 7, 2025
Education Week | VIDEO: Two Former Trump and Biden Appointees Hash Out What’s Ahead in Ed. Policy
Education Freedom, K-12 Education, Teacher Unions
News Jul 31, 2025
PODCAST: “Freedom to Learn” | Rabbi A.D. Motzen on the Coalition Efforts Behind the Federal Scholarship Tax Credit
Education Freedom, K-12 Education, Teacher Unions
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CONGRESSIONAL TESTIMONY: DFI’s Ginny Gentles Testifies Before the Senate HELP Subcommittee on Education and the American Family
Education Freedom, K-12 Education, Teacher Unions
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AMICUS BRIEF: Hellman v. Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education
Civil and Constitutional Rights, Education Freedom, Teacher Unions
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REPORT: DFI 2024 Annual Report
Accreditation, Civil and Constitutional Rights, K-12 Education, Post Secondary Education, Teacher Unions, Title IX and Equal Protection
News Jan 30, 2025
PRESS RELEASE: DFI Celebrates President Trump’s Executive Order on Education Freedom
Education Freedom, K-12 Education, Teacher Unions
News Oct 24, 2024
BLOG | Chicago Teachers Union Bulldozes Path to $50B Contract
Teacher Unions
News Oct 8, 2024
PRESS RELEASE: New Defense of Freedom Institute Report Exposes Teacher Unions’ Radical Work to Undermine Democracy, Push Political Ideology into the Classroom
K-12 Education, Teacher Unions
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REPORT: Summer of Woke III, The Empire Strikes Back
K-12 Education, Teacher Unions
News Sep 4, 2024
PRESS RELEASE: DFI Releases Nationwide Map of Teacher Union Strikes
K-12 Education, Teacher Unions
News Aug 21, 2024
Fox News | Op-Ed: Chicago teachers union locks 320,000 kids out of class so they can be indoctrinated by the DNC
K-12 Education, Teacher Unions
News Jul 12, 2024
PRESS RELEASE: New DFI Study Finds Learning Loss Persisted Despite Massive COVID-19 Recovery Funding
K-12 Education, Teacher Unions
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REPORT: Billions of COVID Relief Didn’t Fix Learning Loss: Another Chapter in the Never-ending Story of Increasing Education Funding
K-12 Education, Teacher Unions
News May 29, 2024
PRESS RELEASE: DFI Hauls the Biden Administration into Court for the Fourth Time After Public Document Requests Go Unanswered for Years
Education Freedom, Federal Oversight, Teacher Unions
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REPORT: Fumbling FOIA-How the Biden Education Department’s Stonewalling Undermines the Public’s Right to Know
Education Freedom, Federal Oversight, Teacher Unions
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LAWSUIT: DFI v. U.S. Department of Education (Charter School Programs FOIA)
Education Freedom, Federal Oversight, K-12 Education, Teacher Unions
News May 3, 2024
The Federalist | Op-Ed: ‘$50 Billion’ Chicago Teachers Union Contract Demands Higher Pay And Lower Expectations
K-12 Education, Teacher Unions
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REPORT: The Neglected Charter
Federal Oversight, K-12 Education, Teacher Unions

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