Education Briefs
The ever-growing and dynamic Moms for Liberty has released its 2024 Impact Report and introduced Moms for Liberty University (M4LU), a new initiative for informing, equipping, and empowering families and citizens “to fight back on all fronts in the war for their children.” While the Impact Report tallies 
the organization’s milestones and accomplishments in 2024, M4LU is designed to show the way forward in 2025. After just four years, Moms for Liberty has amassed more than 130,000 members, with 320 chapters in 48 states. In 2024, the organization held dozens of town hall meetings, won 69 school board races, and helped pass 32 pro-parent state legislative bills. Moms helped with voter registration in key swing states leading up to the November election, grew the organization’s influence on social media, and played a key role in providing conservative leadership in the national conversation. One example shows that the organization increased its following on X more than 50 percent last year, attracting nearly 200,000 followers. The new M4LU is intended to increase knowledge and understanding of the many threats our children face in the schools and in the culture at large, and to put practical tools into the hands of parents, grandparents, and citizens while educating them on one key topic per month. For example, M4LU examined Social Emotional Learning (SEL 101), on January 8, showing how it “pervades every aspect of our children’s school day, and how it affects their minds.” Additional sessions covering other critical topics will follow on a monthly basis, and are listed on the current semester schedule. Interested parties should visit M4LU.org Current Semester for more information or to sign up.
The pro-family activist organization, MassResistance, is encouraging states to adopt a resolution to overturn the Obergefell Supreme Court ruling that legalized “gay” marriage. The organization has drafted text for state legislatures to adopt, urging the U.S. Supreme Court “to reverse its infamous and illegitimate ‘Obergefell’ ruling,” which in 2015 “forced the idea that the U.S. Constitution requires states to allow 
same-sex ‘marriage.’” MassResistance is working with six states that “are now poised to file” the resolutions, which have no force of law but which “send an important public message.” These states include Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Montana, and North Dakota, with Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, Florida, Mississippi, New Hampshire, West Virginia, and Wyoming also showing interest. Legislators in Mississippi are reportedly “very close” to agreeing to adopt the resolution. MassResistance is hoping the current U.S. Supreme Court, which “has a majority of constitutionalists rather than ideologues,” will be willing to revisit other past bad rulings as they did the Dobbs decision. Dobbs, of course, overturned “the similarly illegitimate 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling” that created a “right” to abortion. MassResistance points out that the decision in Obergefell v. Hodges “was based on a fraudulent interpretation of the Constitution” via “a strategy concocted by LGBT lawyers.” The organization observes that the Left “is already erupting over these resolutions ... They know this flawed ruling is vulnerable and they are livid that some conservatives are taking an aggressive approach.” Stay tuned for more on this topic.
The National Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) are losing members each year, a decline which began in 2018. According to a recent Department of Labor disclosure report described by The 74’s Mike Antonucci, teachers’ 
union membership dropped by “more than 59,000 across the nation” during the 2021-22 school year. A decrease of 82,000 members occurred the previous peak pandemic year of 2020-21. The report shows that these decreases did not coincide with staffing losses; rather, local school districts “added 95,000 employees” during the same period. Antonucci included some examples of specific union membership declines: Florida lost 4,682 members, New York lost 4,384 members, Pennsylvania lost 1,458 members, Illinois membership was down 1,267, and Michigan lost 1,065. The article noted that, while most NEA affiliates are not required to file a disclosure report, a post-Covid look at the California Teachers Association showed significant losses, and that evidence “has not been forthcoming” on any states where teachers’ unions are bucking this downward membership trend. While The 74 did not offer reasons for teachers jumping ship, Education Reporter provided some clues in 2023, and former teacher, author, and activist Rebecca Friedrichs has shined a light on NEA and AFT corruption for years. This, and the increasingly radical politics of the unions has doubtless prompted teachers remaining in the public schools to withdraw their memberships, which they are allowed by law to do. With the new Trump Administration assuming power, many believe these membership declines are likely to continue.
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