Posts by Sheila Roberts
Parental Rights Foundation Launches Internship Program to Invest in Future Leaders
One of the most exciting aspects about our work to defend and advance parental rights in our nation is the knowledge that this work is all about the future: the future of our children, the future of our families, the future of our nation, and the future of 100 years of U.S. Supreme Court precedent…
Read MoreSchool Board Parental Rights Resolution
Education experts agree that the best education outcomes are achieved when parents are actively involved in their child’s education, even if—perhaps especially if—that education takes place in the public schools. And the U.S. Supreme Court has long held that parents have a fundamental right to direct the upbringing and education of their children. These two…
Read MoreMaryanne Godboldo’s Story, with Allison Folmar
In 2011, Detroit-area parent Maryanne Godboldo found herself in a standoff with social workers, police, and even a SWAT team threatening the removal of her daughter – all because Maryanne refused to give her daughter a dangerous, mind-altering psychiatric drug. This week, we talk with civil attorney Allison Folmar, who represented Maryanne in this nationally-publicized…
Read MoreWe’re Shaping Major National Events
Last week I had the privilege of attending the Home School Legal Defense Association’s National Leaders Conference in St. Louis, Missouri. I hosted a table for the Parental Rights Foundation and ParentalRights.org, where I made connections, answered questions, and generally got to discuss our cause with some wonderful, like-minded leaders in homeschooling. Then, on the…
Read MoreParental Rights Foundation Joins Amicus Brief to Defend the First Amendment From Federal Overreach
A few members of the Parental Rights team preparing a mailing in the office. From left to right, Michael Ramey, Natalie Clarke, Will Estrada. On Tuesday, the Parental Rights Foundation joined over fifty organizations, individuals, and elected officials in an amicus curiae (“friend of the court”) brief to the Federal District Court for the Middle…
Read MoreEpisode Six: In Defense of Yeshiva Schools, with Jason Bedrick
Recently, the New York Times ran an article entitled “In Hasidic Enclaves, Failing Private Schools Flush With Public Money”, attacking the Yeshivas (religious schools) of New York’s Hasidic Jews. But what’s the real story? This week, we talk with Jason Bedrick, a former member of the New Hampshire state legislature, and now a Research Fellow at the Heritage…
Read MoreChild Protection Investigations Reform Act
View the model as adopted by the American Legislative Exchange Council. People rarely exercise rights they don’t know they have. This is especially true in CPS investigations. Many CPS investigators take advantage of a parent’s ignorance of their legal rights to push them into “agreements” that might ultimately be against the family’s best interests. Parents…
Read MoreParental Rights Foundation Submits Comments on New Title IX Rules
On Monday, the Parental Rights Foundation submitted a nine-page letter as our official public comment in response to the Biden Administration’s Notice of Proposed Rule Making related to Title IX. The reason we submitted this public comment is because the proposed regulation includes certain provisions that threaten parental rights. For background, a few months ago,…
Read MoreWhy Due Process Matters, with Frank Garrison
This week, we talk with Frank Garrison, an attorney at the Pacific Legal Foundation, which fights to protect civil rights, private property rights, and to uphold the constitutional separation of powers. Frank is representing a mother in Arizona who has been falsely accused of child neglect and has found her name on the state child abuse…
Read MoreEpisode Four: Are State Child Abuse Registries Unconstitutional? with Timothy Sandefur
In Arizona, one mom found her name on the state registry of child abusers, with many job and volunteer opportunities closed to her for the next 25 years, all because she let her child play in a safe neighborhood park with friends while she shopped for groceries. How does this happen to an innocent, loving…
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