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2025 Annual Report
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, Title VI and Equal Protection
Oversight
FOIA REQUEST: Records Pertaining to Communications Between Elizabeth Thiel and the U.S. Department of Education
Department of Education
Civil and Constitutional Rights, Teacher Unions, Title IX and Equal Protection
Oversight
FOIA REQUEST: Records Pertaining to Communications Between Michael Mulgrew and the U.S. Department of Education
Department of Education
Civil and Constitutional Rights, Teacher Unions, Title IX and Equal Protection
Oversight
FOIA REQUEST: Records Pertaining to Communications Between Frank Lara and the U.S. Department of Education
Department of Education
Civil and Constitutional Rights, Teacher Unions, Title IX and Equal Protection
Oversight
FOIA REQUEST: Records Pertaining to Communications Between Becky Pringle and the U.S. Department of Education
Department of Education
Civil and Constitutional Rights, Teacher Unions, Title IX and Equal Protection
Oversight
FOIA REQUEST: Pertaining to Communications Between Randi Weingarten and the U.S. Department of Education
Department of Education
Civil and Constitutional Rights, Teacher Unions, Title IX and Equal Protection
News Mar 25, 2026
PODCAST | “Freedom to Learn:” “Get In, Loser. We’re Unionizing the Researchers.”
Post Secondary Education, Teacher Unions
News Mar 17, 2026
PRESS RELEASE: New DFI Report Finds Teacher Union–Affiliated Graduate Student Unions Promote Radical Activism, Antisemitism
Antisemitism, Civil and Constitutional Rights, Teacher Unions, Title VI and Equal Protection
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REPORT: The Radicalism of Graduate Student Unions Affiliated with the Teacher Unions
Antisemitism, Teacher Unions
News Feb 25, 2026
PODCAST | “Freedom to Learn:” What Caused the “Lost Decade” in K-12 Education?
K-12 Education, Teacher Unions
News Jan 12, 2026
PRESS RELEASE: Leading Education Scholar Jay P. Greene to Join DFI as Senior Fellow
Foreign Influence in Higher Education, Teacher Unions, Title VI and Equal Protection
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
Antisemitism, 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
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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