The Education Pipeline - How Ideology Becomes Curriculum

Hillsdale, Classical Academies, Homeschool Networks, and the Manufacture of Worldview

Dossier 061 | Date: 2026-04-04 | Status: PRIVATE - structural analysis Analyst: por. Zbigniew + Oracle Method: Open-source intelligence, IRS filings, enrollment data, curriculum analysis, donor tracking, PARDES layered analysis Cross-references: Dossier 054 (Military Christian Nationalism), Dark Money (Barre Seid, Leonard Leo, Donors Trust), Technate Consolidation

FRACTAL

SEED: A coordinated network of donors, colleges, curriculum publishers, charter school operators, homeschool legal organizations, and school board insurgents has built a parallel education system that now reaches millions of American students - from kindergarten through congressional staffing - and in September 2025 the U.S. Department of Education formally partnered with these same organizations to reshape civic education nationwide.

PARAGRAPH: Hillsdale College (1,600 students, 88 affiliated K-12 schools, 20,000+ enrolled students, 12,000+ on waitlists) produces the “1776 Curriculum” used in schools across 28 states while its Imprimis newsletter reaches 6.8 million readers - larger than the New York Times. The classical Christian education movement (500+ ACCS schools, 264 new schools between 2019-2023) is intellectually led by Doug Wilson, whose CREC denomination counts Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth as a member. Homeschool curricula from Abeka and Bob Jones University Press teach young-earth creationism, climate denial, and biblical literalism to an estimated 3.4 million students, while Patrick Henry College funnels homeschooled graduates into White House internships (7% of Bush-era interns from a school of 240 students). PragerU (7 billion+ video views, zero accreditation) is approved as supplementary curriculum in at least 10 states. Meanwhile, 18 states now have universal school voucher programs channeling billions to private religious schools (70-98% of voucher money flows to religious institutions depending on state). In September 2025, the U.S. Department of Education formally launched the “America 250 Civics Education Coalition” with Hillsdale, Turning Point USA, PragerU, Heritage Foundation, and Moms for Liberty as official partners. This is not a culture war - it is an education capture strategy running a full K-through-career pipeline: think tank to curriculum to classroom to college to congressional staff to policy.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Hillsdale College: The Anchor Institution
2. Classical Christian Education Movement
3. Homeschool Networks and Legal Infrastructure
4. PragerU: The Digital Classroom
5. Turning Point USA: Campus to Career
6. The School Board Strategy
7. The DeVos Voucher Machine
8. The Full Pipeline Mapped
9. The Funding Web
10. Assessment and Confidence Ratings

1. HILLSDALE COLLEGE: THE ANCHOR INSTITUTION

Confidence: HIGH (primary sources: Hillsdale website, IRS filings, Conservative Transparency database, NBC News investigative reporting, Detroit News)

The Numbers

Why Zero Federal Funding Matters

Hillsdale’s refusal of all federal money - including indirect student financial aid - is not a quirk. It is a strategic position. By refusing federal funds, Hillsdale is:

• Immune to Title IX compliance requirements (gender equity, sexual assault reporting standards)
• Immune to federal curriculum oversight
• Immune to federal diversity requirements
• Free to set any admission and conduct standards without government review

This makes Hillsdale the model for what the broader movement wants all education to become: privately funded, privately controlled, ideologically directed, and beyond the reach of federal civil rights enforcement.

The 1776 Curriculum

Released in 2021 as a direct counter to the New York Times’ “1619 Project,” the 1776 Curriculum is:

• Nearly 2,500 pages of K-12 lesson plans
• Free to download (funded by donors, not sales)
• Covering American history, civics, and government
• Framed around “American exceptionalism” and “honest patriotism”
• Explicitly designed to counter Critical Race Theory

Larry P. Arnn, Hillsdale’s president since 2000, chaired Trump’s 1776 Commission (appointed December 18, 2020). Matthew Spalding, VP of Hillsdale’s Van Andel Graduate School of Government in Washington, D.C., served as the commission’s executive director.

The critical detail: Arnn co-founded and led the Claremont Institute (1985-2000) before becoming Hillsdale’s president. The Claremont Institute has become the intellectual home of “national conservatism” and post-liberal right thought. Arnn bridges the think-tank world and the institutional-education world.

The D.C. Campus

Hillsdale operates the Van Andel Graduate School of Government in Washington, D.C. - located across the street from the Heritage Foundation. This is not a coincidence. Recent Hillsdale D.C. fellows include:

• Charles Sedore - legislative assistant to Sen. Marco Rubio
• Evan Myers - editorial manager at the Heritage Foundation

The pipeline is literal: Hillsdale classroom -> D.C. campus -> Heritage Foundation/congressional office -> policy.

Hillsdale and Project 2025

Hillsdale College sits on the advisory board of Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation’s comprehensive plan for reshaping the federal government. Project 2025 maintains a personnel database of pre-vetted candidates for government positions. Hillsdale feeds that database.

Who Funds Hillsdale

Note on Donors Trust: This is the “dark money ATM of the right” (documented in Dossier 041). DeVos family contributed $1M (2009) and $1.5M (2010) to Donors Trust itself. Donors Trust then distributes to organizations including Hillsdale with donor anonymity preserved. The true funding total is unknowable by design.

2. CLASSICAL CHRISTIAN EDUCATION MOVEMENT

Confidence: HIGH (primary sources: ACCS website, Religion News Service, CNN investigation, PBS reporting, NPR)

Scale

Growth rate: 10 schools (1993) to 500+ (2024). That is 50x in 30 years.

Doug Wilson: The Intellectual Center

Doug Wilson is the linchpin of this movement:

• Pastor of Christ Church, Moscow, Idaho (CREC flagship)
• Founded Logos School (1981) - the prototype for the classical Christian education movement
• Co-founded the Association of Classical Christian Schools (ACCS)
• Founded Canon Press (Christian publishing, sold 2012 to son’s LLC)
• Founded New Saint Andrews College (Moscow, Idaho)
• Co-founded the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches (CREC, 1998)
• Co-founded Credenda/Agenda (Reformed theological journal)

Wilson’s theology is not mainstream evangelicalism. It is reconstructionist/theonomist - meaning it advocates restructuring civil government according to biblical (specifically Old Testament) law. He has advocated:

• Complementarianism (traditional gender roles as divinely mandated)
• Written that women’s suffrage was a mistake
• Written sympathetically about antebellum Southern slavery
• Advocated criminalizing homosexuality
• Stated that only Christians are qualified for political leadership

The Hegseth Connection

This is the link from Dossier 054 to Dossier 061.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth:

• Attends Pilgrim Hill Reformed Fellowship (CREC member church, Nashville suburb)
• Sends his children to a school affiliated with Wilson’s ACCS
• Pentagon confirmed Hegseth “very much appreciates many of Mr. Wilson’s writings and teachings”
• Hosted Wilson at the Pentagon for a preaching event (documented in Dossier 054)

The person controlling the US military apparatus sends his children to a school system designed by a man who advocates theocratic government. And that school system is growing at 264 new schools in four years.

What Do Students Actually Learn?

The trivium (grammar, logic, rhetoric) sounds like a neutral pedagogical method. The worldview embedded in it is not neutral:

3. HOMESCHOOL NETWORKS AND LEGAL INFRASTRUCTURE

Confidence: HIGH (primary sources: NHERI, NCES, HSLDA records, Wikipedia for biographical data, Hanna Rosin’s “God’s Harvard” reporting)

Scale

The Michael Farris Empire

Michael Farris is the single most important figure in the legal architecture of religious education in America:

1. Founded HSLDA (Home School Legal Defense Association, 1983) - the organization that made homeschooling legal in all 50 states
2. Founded Patrick Henry College (2000) - to funnel homeschooled students into elite politics
3. Served as CEO of Alliance Defending Freedom (2017-2022) - the most powerful Christian legal organization in America

This is one person connecting three nodes: the legal right to homeschool, the college that converts homeschoolers into political operatives, and the legal organization that reshapes constitutional law around religious liberty.

Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF)

ADF is not a marginal organization:

• Has argued and won cases before the US Supreme Court (nine cases during Farris’s tenure alone)
• Won Witters v. Washington (1986, 9-0) establishing that state funds can flow to religious education
• Won NIFLA v. Becerra (2018) on free speech grounds for crisis pregnancy centers
• The legal arm of the movement - converts ideology into precedent

Patrick Henry College: The “God’s Harvard” Pipeline

Patrick Henry College was explicitly founded as “opposition research” - Farris’s words. The goal: “groom smart, ambitious young evangelicals for influential careers in Congress, in the media, in the sciences and on the Supreme Court.”

7% of White House interns from a school of 240 students. Georgetown University, with 20,000+ students, sent comparable numbers.

The Dominant Homeschool Curricula

Three publishers control the majority of religious homeschool content:

Abeka (Pensacola Christian College):

• Young-earth creationism as established science
• Evolution denounced as “a retreat from science”
• Climate change dismissed or treated with extreme skepticism
• Biblical literalism as the foundation of all subjects
• University of California formally rejected Abeka credits as “inconsistent with the viewpoints and knowledge generally accepted in the scientific community” (2006 lawsuit, judge upheld UC’s decision)

Bob Jones University Press (BJU Press):

• Shares theological roots with Abeka (both trace to Bob Jones University)
• Young-earth creationism
• Christian worldview integration across all subjects
• “Science is approached knowing there is a Creator”

Apologia:

• Creationist science curriculum
• Popular among conservative Christian homeschoolers
• Presents evolution and mainstream climate science as contested

3.4 million students. A significant and growing portion use curricula that reject mainstream scientific consensus on evolution, climate change, and geology. These students then enter the workforce, voting booths, and political pipeline.

HSLDA Shutdown of Generation Joshua

In November 2025, HSLDA permanently shut down Generation Joshua, its youth civic engagement program. This followed internal tensions about the program’s political direction. The shutdown does not eliminate the pipeline - it merely signals that the institutional infrastructure is being reorganized, not dismantled.

4. PRAGERU: THE DIGITAL CLASSROOM

Confidence: HIGH (primary sources: PragerU website, NPR, Wikipedia, state department of education announcements, Guardian investigation)

The Numbers

What PragerU Teaches

PragerU produces 5-minute videos with high production values. Content themes:

• Climate denial or extreme skepticism of climate science
• American exceptionalism as unquestioned framework
• “Judeo-Christian values” as the foundation of Western civilization
• Free market capitalism as inseparable from freedom
• Progressive policies as threats to liberty
• Gender ideology as social contagion

Who Funds PragerU

The Wilks brothers are not just funders. They are Pentecostal pastors turned fracking billionaires who have been documented as among the most powerful political donors in Texas, backing Christian nationalist candidates and causes. ProPublica called them builders of “the most powerful political machine in Texas.”

The Oklahoma Escalation (2025)

In July 2025, Oklahoma partnered with PragerU to develop an ideology test to screen and withhold teaching certificates from teachers from “woke” states. This is a new frontier: not just adding PragerU content to classrooms, but using PragerU’s ideological framework as a gatekeeper for who is allowed to teach.

The Pipeline: YouTube to Classroom to Worldview

The sequence:

1. Free YouTube videos reach billions of views (audience building)
2. “PragerU Kids” creates age-appropriate content (ages 5-12)
3. State departments of education approve as supplementary curriculum (institutional legitimacy)
4. Teachers can now show PragerU videos in classrooms (mandatory exposure)
5. Content shapes students’ baseline assumptions about history, economics, and values

A media company with no accreditation, no campus, and no students is now an approved educational resource in at least 10 American states. Its content is funded by fracking billionaires who sit on its board.

5. TURNING POINT USA: CAMPUS TO CAREER

Confidence: HIGH (primary sources: TPUSA website, Britannica, Wikipedia, EdWeek, U.S. Department of Education press releases)

The Numbers

The Charlie Kirk Trajectory and Aftermath

Charlie Kirk founded TPUSA in 2012 at age 18. Key funding moment: at the 2012 Republican National Convention, Kirk met Foster Friess, who made an initial “five-figure” donation. Kirk was assassinated at Utah Valley University on September 10, 2025. His widow Erika Kirk was selected as CEO on September 18, 2025.

Post-Kirk, TPUSA accelerated its education mission:

• 32,000 new chapter inquiries in days following Kirk’s death
• Texas launched a plan to create TPUSA chapters in every high school in the state
• The U.S. Department of Education formally partnered with TPUSA

Major Funders

Turning Point Education and Turning Point Academy

TPUSA now operates:

• Turning Point Education - dedicated division for K-12 curriculum and content
• Turning Point Academy - started at Dream City Christian School (Glendale, AZ), expanding
• Offers both “classic, pro-American curriculum” and “Christian educational programming” as options

The America 250 Civics Coalition

On September 17, 2025 (Constitution Day), the U.S. Department of Education launched the America 250 Civics Education Coalition with the following as official partners:

The federal government has officially partnered with the organizations documented in this dossier to define what “civic education” means for American students. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon provides oversight. This is not lobbying from outside. This is inside the building.

6. THE SCHOOL BOARD STRATEGY

Confidence: HIGH (primary sources: PEN America, ALA, Britannica, Washington Post, SPLC, Documented.net)

Moms for Liberty

The Book Ban Campaign

Top banning states (2024-25): Florida (2,304), Texas (1,781), Tennessee (1,622).

PEN America found that 81% of school districts that banned books between July 2022 and June 2023 were within or adjoined to a county with a Moms for Liberty chapter.

The Council for National Policy (CNP) Coordination

The Council for National Policy (CNP), launched in 1981 by Tim LaHaye, is the coordination layer:

• Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts sits on the CNP board of governors
• Heritage was co-founded by Paul Weyrich, who also co-founded ALEC and CNP
• The three form a “three-legged stool”: Heritage (think tank), ALEC (state-level bill mill), CNP (donor/activist coordination)
• CNP prioritizes school boards as battlegrounds for cultural agenda
• Parents Defending Education (PDE) campaigns echo CNP goals
• Heritage Action deploys field offices to push conservative reforms at state and local levels

The Strategy Logic

1. Identify vulnerable school board seats (many are low-turnout, nonpartisan elections)
2. Train candidates through Leadership Institute, Heritage Action, CNP network
3. Fund campaigns through dark money pass-throughs
4. Win majorities on local school boards
5. Implement book bans, curriculum changes, “parental rights” policies
6. Normalize ideology at local level, creating demand for state-level policy
7. Scale to state legislatures via proven local wins

This is a bottom-up strategy that complements the top-down curriculum strategy. School boards open the door. Hillsdale, PragerU, and classical Christian curricula walk through it.

7. THE DEVOS VOUCHER MACHINE

Confidence: HIGH (primary sources: Ballotpedia, Stateline, EdWeek, Washington Post investigation, ProPublica, Hechinger Report)

The Current Landscape (as of early 2026)

Where the Money Goes

This is the critical data point. Voucher money does not flow equally to all private schools:

Translation: voucher programs are, in practice, a mechanism for transferring public tax dollars to religious education. The data is unambiguous. In some states, 96-98% of voucher money flows to religious schools.

The Betsy DeVos Architecture

Betsy DeVos (nee Prince - sister of Erik Prince/Blackwater) built the institutional infrastructure:

1. American Federation for Children (AFC) - co-founded 2010, lobbying arm
   • Poured ~$9 million into state elections in a single cycle
   • Backed nearly 200 candidates
   • Active in Louisiana, Texas, Ohio, and expanding
2. Secretary of Education (2017-2021) - used federal office to promote school choice nationally
3. Post-office: AFC continues to organize state-by-state voucher campaigns

The Voucher-to-Hillsdale Pipeline

Does voucher money flow to Hillsdale-affiliated and classical Christian schools? The answer is structural:

• Of Hillsdale’s 88 affiliated schools, 57 are public charter schools (funded by public money already)
• The remaining 31 are private schools eligible for voucher funding in states with voucher programs
• Classical Christian schools (ACCS: 500+) are private and directly benefit from voucher expansion
• As voucher programs expand to 18 universal states (and potentially 28 with federal program), the addressable market for these schools grows dramatically

The sequence: DeVos builds voucher infrastructure -> voucher money flows to religious/private schools -> Hillsdale and ACCS schools receive voucher students and funding -> students receive ideologically shaped curriculum -> graduates enter the political pipeline.

8. THE FULL PIPELINE MAPPED

Confidence: HIGH for structure, MEDIUM for exact personnel flow rates (aggregated from all sources above)

The Assembly Line

STAGE 1: FUNDING
Bradley Foundation, Koch Network, DeVos/Amway, Wilks Brothers, Donors Trust
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         v
STAGE 2: THINK TANK (ideology production)
Heritage Foundation, Claremont Institute, AEI, AFPI
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         v
STAGE 3: CURRICULUM (ideology packaging)
Hillsdale 1776 Curriculum, PragerU videos, Abeka/BJU Press textbooks, ACCS standards
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         v
STAGE 4: DISTRIBUTION (ideology delivery)
Charter schools (Hillsdale 88), Classical academies (ACCS 500+),
Homeschool (3.4M students), Voucher schools, PragerU in 10+ states
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         v
STAGE 5: HIGHER EDUCATION (ideology deepening)
Hillsdale College, Patrick Henry College, Liberty University (140K enrolled),
New Saint Andrews College, Turning Point Academy
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         v
STAGE 6: CAREER PLACEMENT (ideology operationalization)
Heritage internships, Federalist Society, Congressional staff,
Project 2025 personnel database, Hillsdale D.C. fellowships
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         v
STAGE 7: POLICY (ideology implementation)
Project 2025, DOGE, Department of Education, state legislatures,
Federal judiciary (6 of 9 SCOTUS justices FedSoc affiliated)
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         v
STAGE 8: FEEDBACK LOOP (policy enables more pipeline)
Voucher expansion, DoEd partnership, book bans, curriculum mandates
-> More funding for Stage 1 institutions

Pipeline Timeline

• K-12 education: 13 years
• College: 4 years
• Early career placement: 2-5 years
• Policy influence: 5-15 years after college

Total pipeline: one generation (20-30 years) from kindergarten to congressional staffer.

But the infrastructure has been building since the 1980s (HSLDA founded 1983, Logos School 1981, Federalist Society 1982). The first full-pipeline graduates are now in their 40s and 50s - senior staff, judges, and policy directors.

The Abolition of the Department of Education

On March 20, 2025, Trump signed an executive order to abolish the Department of Education. While full abolition requires congressional action (H.R. 899 targets December 31, 2026), the administration has already:

• Moved $1.7 trillion in student loan portfolio to Treasury Department
• Revoked ~$900 million in research contracts
• Laid off thousands of employees
• Moved programs to other agencies
• Secretary McMahon stated shrinking the department “as much as possible” is its “final mission”

The logic: abolish the federal institution that oversees public education while simultaneously partnering with private ideological organizations (Hillsdale, TPUSA, PragerU, Heritage) to define what civic education means. Remove the public referee and hand the field to private players.

The College Pipeline (Detail)

Key Personnel Cross-Map

9. THE FUNDING WEB

Confidence: MEDIUM-HIGH (primary sources: Conservative Transparency, IRS filings, OpenSecrets, investigative journalism; dark money structures obscure exact totals by design)

Donor-to-Institution Flow

BRADLEY FOUNDATION ($900M+ assets)
├── Hillsdale College (ongoing since 1980s)
├── Turning Point USA ($8.1M in 2023 alone)
├── Heritage Foundation (major, ongoing)
├── Federalist Society (major, ongoing)
└── PragerU (undisclosed amount)

DEVOS / AMWAY FAMILY
├── Hillsdale College (millions, ongoing)
├── American Federation for Children ($9M/cycle in state races)
├── Donors Trust ($1M in 2009, $1.5M in 2010 - pass-through)
├── Heritage Foundation (major donor)
└── Republican candidates (direct political giving)

KOCH NETWORK
├── Hillsdale College ($520K+ since 2008 via Charles Koch Foundation)
├── Heritage Foundation (historic, complicated relationship)
├── Americans for Prosperity (grassroots mobilization)
└── State policy institutes (nationwide network)

WILKS BROTHERS (Dan & Farris)
├── PragerU ($8M+ over decade, 2 board seats)
├── Texas political candidates (dominant force)
├── Daily Wire (Ben Shapiro - media arm)
└── Christian nationalist causes (multiple)

DONORS TRUST (dark money pass-through, ~$1B+ distributed)
├── Hillsdale College (amount obscured)
├── Heritage Foundation (amount obscured)
├── Federalist Society (amount obscured)
├── State policy organizations (nationwide)
└── Education policy organizations (multiple)

DIANA DAVIS SPENCER FOUNDATION
├── Hillsdale College ($2M, 2020-2022)
├── Project 2025 organizations (multiple)
└── Education advocacy (multiple)

The Donors Trust Problem

Donors Trust is specifically designed to prevent tracking of donor-to-recipient flows. A donor gives to Donors Trust. Donors Trust gives to the organization. The original donor’s identity is severed from the grant. This is legal. It is also the reason that the true funding totals for every institution in this dossier are unknowable.

What is known: Donors Trust has distributed over $1 billion to conservative organizations. The Barre Seid $1.65 billion donation (documented in Dossier 041) flowed through Leonard Leo’s network. Leo’s Civics Alliance - which includes Moms for Liberty and education policy organizations - is funded by the same donor infrastructure.

10. ASSESSMENT AND CONFIDENCE RATINGS

Confidence Matrix

What This Is

This is not a conspiracy in the sense of a secret plot. Most of this is documented on the organizations’ own websites. The strategy is public. The 1776 Curriculum is free to download. PragerU videos are on YouTube. Moms for Liberty publishes its chapter count. Project 2025 published its 900-page plan.

What makes it a pipeline rather than a movement is:

1. Common funding sources (Bradley, DeVos, Koch, Donors Trust) flowing to all nodes
2. Interlocking personnel (Arnn bridging Claremont and Hillsdale; Farris bridging HSLDA, PHC, and ADF; Leo bridging Federalist Society and education funding)
3. Sequential design (K-12 curriculum -> college -> internship -> career -> policy -> more curriculum)
4. Feedback loops (policy outputs at Stage 7 create enabling conditions for Stage 1-4 expansion)
5. Federal partnership (the September 2025 America 250 Coalition formalizes what was previously informal)

What This Is Not

This analysis does not claim that:

• Every parent choosing classical education or homeschooling is part of a pipeline
• All religious education is ideological capture
• Hillsdale produces bad scholars (it is academically rigorous within its framework)
• School choice is inherently illegitimate as a policy position

The claim is narrower: a specific network of donors, institutions, and operatives has built a parallel education system designed to produce a specific political worldview, and that system has now been formally endorsed by the federal government as the template for American civic education.

The Seven Mountains Frame

The Seven Mountains mandate (Dossier 054) identifies seven “mountains” of cultural influence: government, education, media, arts/entertainment, business, family, religion. This dossier maps the education mountain specifically.

The pipeline documented here does not exist in isolation. It connects to:

• Government mountain: Project 2025, congressional staffing, federal judiciary
• Media mountain: PragerU (7B views), Daily Wire, Turning Point media
• Business mountain: DeVos/Amway, Koch industries, Wilks fracking empire
• Religion mountain: CREC, dominionist theology, military chaplaincy
• Family mountain: Homeschool legal infrastructure, “parental rights” framing

The education pipeline is the manufacturing floor of the Seven Mountains strategy. It is where worldview is built before it is deployed into the other six mountains.

Timeline Assessment

The infrastructure took 40 years to build. The policy capture phase is happening now. The maturation phase is one generation away - unless the pipeline is interrupted.

SOURCES

• Hillsdale K-12 Education / Barney Charter School Initiative
• Hillsdale College - Wikipedia
• Detroit News: Hillsdale spreading gospel of classical education
• Idaho Ed News: Hillsdale schools growing rapidly
• Imprimis - Wikipedia
• Conservative Transparency: Hillsdale College
• GRIID: Van Andel donors to Hillsdale
• NBC News: Hillsdale leading conservative K-12 overhaul
• 1776 Commission - Wikipedia
• ACCS: Find a School
• Aquila Report: Exponential Growth of Classical Christian Education
• Religion News Service: Christ Church at 50
• CNN: Inside Doug Wilson’s crusade for Christian domination
• PBS: What to know about Hegseth’s archconservative church
• The Conversation: What is CREC
• The Bulwark: What Hegseth’s Spiritual Mentor Wants
• NHERI: How Many Homeschool Students in the US
• HSLDA - Wikipedia
• Patrick Henry College - Wikipedia
• NPR: Hanna Rosin Goes Inside God’s Harvard
• Harvard Crimson: A Conservative Twist on Higher Ed
• Michael Farris - Wikipedia
• Abeka - Wikipedia
• Righting America: Review of Abeka Science Textbook
• PragerU - Wikipedia
• NPR: PragerU trying to get into schools
• Dan and Farris Wilks - Wikipedia
• ProPublica: Wilks brothers political machine in Texas
• Turning Point USA - Wikipedia
• The Conversation: Who was Charlie Kirk
• Moms for Liberty - Wikipedia
• Britannica: Moms for Liberty
• PEN America: Book Bans Index 2024-2025
• PEN America: Normalization of Book Banning
• Council for National Policy - Wikipedia
• SPLC: Council for National Policy Behind the Curtain
• Ballotpedia: States with universal school choice programs
• Stateline: School choice programs grow in popularity and cost
• Washington Post: Billions in taxpayer dollars to religious schools via vouchers
• ProPublica: Inside the movement to redirect billions to religious schools
• Hechinger Report: Trump voucher program and Christian education
• NBC News: DeVos and American Federation for Children
• U.S. Department of Education: America 250 Civics Coalition launch
• NPR: Education Dept unites conservative groups for patriotic civics
• Claremont Institute - Wikipedia
• New Statesman: Extraordinary influence of Claremont Institute
• ProPublica: Leonard Leo and Supreme Court supermajority
• Liberty University - Wikipedia
• NEA: Plan to Abolish Education Department One Year Later
• EdWeek: Turning Point USA expanding to K-12
• Texas Tribune: TPUSA talked expansion with Texas education chief
• Federalist Society and Leonard Leo - Yale Daily News
• Documented: CNP membership list