“Who Funds That?” Episode 2: Maryland Lawmakers and Teachers Unions vs. Parents (with Corey DeAngelis)

Maryland, for my sins my home state, is almost completely controlled by the teachers unions—this was proven during COVID-19, when the state had among the longest school closures in the nation. But the end of the pandemic did nothing to curb Maryland teachers unions’ ambitions, which are now focused against private education, which the unions and their allies in state government hope to ideologically compel to follow the party line. Today’s guest, Corey DeAngelis of the Heritage Foundation among other places, focuses on an effort by the union-backed state legislature to require private schools in the state to acquiesce to gender transitions—even schools that have sincere religious objections to gender transitions likely protected by the First Amendment. He joins us today to discuss what this effort by blue-state teachers-union-controlled legislatures can tell us about parental rights campaigns across the country.

• Washington Times: Maryland’s assault on private education
• Capital Research Center: Teachers Unions Extort States Unwilling to Resist
• InfluenceWatch Podcast #397: Teachers Unions Target Target
• Twitter: Corey DeAngelis’s Thread