Kendall Tietz
@kendall_tietz
Investigative reporter @DefendingEd. Former culture writer @FoxNews, fellow @WSJOpinion and education reporter @DailyCaller. Tips to [email protected]
Excited to be joining the DefendingEd team as an investigate reporter amid this rebrand! Send tips to [email protected].
Parents Defending Education is EXPANDING into higher education with a new name: Defending Education!
Remember when @DefendingEd uncovered Kansas districts keeping parents in the dark about their children’s gender transitions? Now, @KSAGOffice is calling for a federal investigation. This is an overdue step forward in defending parental rights and holding schools accountable.
Our first-of-its-kind analysis of foreign student enrollment at 125 American universities yielded some pretty astonishing metrics, including a 66.7% increase between 2000 and 2023. Find out more from @DefendingEd, here: defendinged.org/investigations…
Non-citizens should not be given special preference over American citizens for scholarships at American universities. @usedgov opened an investigation into 5 universities for allegedly blocking U.S. students from accessing DACA scholarships. ed.gov/about/news/pre…
Fourth from SCOTUS: MAHMOUD v TAYLOR and the parents are victorious. Justice Alito writes for the 6-3 majority (with all liberals in dissent) that the parents challenging the Board’s introduction of the “LGBTQ+-inclusive” storybooks, along with its decision to withhold opt outs,…
Even after Newsom described transgender athletes' participation in girls' sports as "deeply unfair," California doubled down. Now, the administration is holding their feet to the fire.
Socialism is like polio, it comes back when people forget about the horrible damage it did last time.
Who knew defending equal rights for women and girls would become so controversial in 2025.
53 years ago, 37 words opened doors for women by explicitly preventing discrimination in educational settings on the basis of sex. That’s worth defending.
82% of American parents agree that universities must be required to disclose any money they receive from foreign governments. This underscores what should be a bipartisan no-brainer—foreign influence has no place in our schools. My latest in @RCDefense: realcleardefense.com/articles/2025/…
More disgusting lies from Randi Weingarten. Her C-SPAN clip makes it seem like she wanted schools back open in April 2020! Never forget: "The text chains seem to show [CDC director] Walensky caving to pressure applied by Weingarten to keep schools shuttered in February 2021…
The complaint raises serious concerns: Was a tax-exempt nonprofit used to funnel CCP money into a US public school under the guise of “charity”? defendinged.org/defending-educ…
.@DefendingEd filed an IRS complaint against the Thomas Jefferson High School Partnership Fund. The Fund appears to have sold off a public school’s intellectual property to entities tied to the CCP, then reported the revenue as tax-exempt contributions. Taxpayers deserve…