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Chalkbeat reports:
Candidates endorsed by a polarizing group that advocates for screened school admissions won the majority of seats on about half a dozen parent councils this year, according to election results released Friday by the New York City education department.
Parent Leaders for Accelerated Curriculum and Education, or PLACE, endorsed 147 candidates across the city for local district council seats, with 115 of them winning their races. The group’s preferred candidates will make up nearly 40% of the Community Education Council members across the five boroughs, according to a Chalkbeat analysis.
Established in 2019, PLACE supports the status quo when it comes to academic screening policies that have resulted in one of the nation’s most segregated school systems.
The Daily Beast reports:
Ahead of the little-watched CEC election, left-leaning parent groups accused PLACE of being a right-wing voice in the culture wars, with its members promoting more openly far-right groups like Moms for Liberty and comparing so-called “critical race theory” to Nazi teachings.
The group’s co-president called city schools an “oppressor woke environment where DOE employees make them pledge allegiance to their LGBTQI+ religion.”
One of the group’s central platforms is endorsing school placement exams that critics have claimed create an unfair barrier to students from disenfranchised communities.
The City reports:
Community Education Councils are composed of 12 members: 10 are parents elected by other parents, and two are appointed by the borough president. Decisions are entirely advisory, with the exception of binding decisions issued about school zoning.
In addition to a robust parent network citywide, PLACE Co-president and co-founder Maud Maron [photo] attributed the organization’s success to a widespread “parent awakening” in the first year of the pandemic, at a time when the city’s school enrollment was rapidly declining, protests over racial injustice were spreading across the country, and parents debated about virtual schooling and mask mandates.
Reps. George Santos (R-Queens/L.I.) and Nicole Maliotakis (R-Staten Island/Brooklyn), and gubernatorial candidate Lee Zeldin were among a bi-partisan slate of 18 statewide candidates PLACE endorsed last year.
Maud Maron ran for the US House last year, finishing 9th in the Democratic primary won by Rep. Daniel Goldman. In 2021, she lost her bid for the NYC Council.
Several months ago, she appeared on homocon activist Brandon Straka’s YouTube show to promote her House bid.
She is the executive director of an anti-LGBTQ and anti-CRT group that includes notorious anti-LGBTQ activist Christopher Rufo among its former board members. Their Wikipedia entry is really something.
Last year she appeared on Megyn Kelly’s show to claim that she lost her job at Legal Aid for “speaking out.” Of note, Kelly is an advisor to the above-linked group.
Justin, you are a non-parent who has never talked to a child “at home” where they can say what they really think because they are out of the oppressor woke environment where DOE employees make them pledge allegiance to their LGBTQI+ religion. You don’t know what you don’t know.
— Maud Maron (@MaudMaron) March 17, 2023