What You Need to Know About Fake Parent Groups: An NPE Report
By dianeravitch
January 25, 2023
Maurice Cunningham, retired professor of political scientist, has written an exposé of the well-funded fake “parent groups” that spring up overnight to disrupt school board meetings and demand control of books, curriculum, and COVID protocols. Who is behind them? Read the latest report from the Network for Public Education: Merchants of Deception: Parent Props and Their Funders” https://networkforpubliceducation.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Merchants-of-Deception.pdf
They show up shouting at school board meetings with endless complaints. The press interviews them as though they are some “regular moms” looking out for their children, but they are not. They are a well-funded facade for the Koch, Walton, and DeVos families to disrupt and destroy public education.
In our new report, author and academician Maurice Cunningham pulls back the veil on the players, tactics, and funders. This must-read report identifies the who, how, and why behind “Merchants of Deception: Parent Props and Their Funders.”
Cunningham is author of the new book Dark Money and the Politics of School Privatization.