Exclusive – Sen. Bernie Moreno Targets Ohio School Board Defying Laws Against Gender Radicalization
Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH) is turning up the heat on an Ohio school board member who advocates the flouting of laws prohibiting radical “transgender” indoctrination on schoolchildren.
Lauren Marchaza, a Mentor Public Schools board member in Mentor, Ohio, revealed in a February 11 board meeting that she does not think it is necessary to follow laws to protect underage children from sexual indoctrination. A video of her comments shared by the popular account @libsoftiktok has been viewed over 400,000 times as of Wednesday morning.
Trump signed an executive order on January 29 called “Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling” which threatened to withhold federal funding for “illegal and discriminatory treatment and indoctrination in K-12 schools,” including that which is based on gender ideology and “discriminatory equity ideology.”
Trump’s order followed passage of an Ohio law earlier in January that prohibits teachers from pushing “sexuality content” without parental knowledge.
Referencing Trump’s order, Marchaza said “the phrase [used is] ‘consistent with applicable law.’ I think that kind of gives everybody a little bit of flexibility in terms of like what is legal and what is not.” She added that “there are multiple provisions in federal law that prohibit the federal government from getting involved in state and local decisions about K-12 curriculum, so no executive order can actually overrule, um, that federal law or regulation, so I think that is important for us to remember.”
Moreno isn’t buying Marchaza’s amateur attorneying.
“Her misleading statements could be interpreted, at best, as attempting to engage in the unauthorized practice of law, and, at worst, as the pronouncement that the Board will refuse to comply with President Trump’s Executive Orders,” Moreno wrote to the school board’s president Maggie Cook.
“To the best of my knowledge, Board Member Marchaza is not a lawyer,” Moreno adds. “And yet, she has seemingly made the sole determination that the Board can undermine the President of United States’ constitutional authority to protect parental rights in education, and outlaw unconstitutional, far-left racial discrimination in public schools.
“I don’t know how else to interpret this Board Member’s statements other than as an indication that the Board plans to flagrantly disregard President Trump’s Executive Orders.”
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