Parental Rights
As a mother of six, Lauren B. Peña knows that parents — not school boards, not federal bureaucrats, not activist teachers — are the primary authority in a child's life. She will fight to enshrine that in federal law.
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Lauren's children
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Constitutional basis for Dept. of Education
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States with parental rights legislation
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Commitment to parental authority
The radical left has declared war on parental authority. From gender ideology in elementary schools to CRT curricula to medical decisions made without parental consent, the government is systematically inserting itself between parents and their children. Lauren B. Peña will end it.
Lauren B. Peña is a mother of six. She has lived the reality of navigating a school system that increasingly treats parents as obstacles rather than partners. She has watched friends lose custody battles because they refused to affirm gender transitions for their minor children. She has seen what happens when government replaces parents as the primary authority in a child's life — and she will not let it happen in Texas.
Federal education policy has become a vehicle for ideological indoctrination. Title IX has been rewritten to force schools to allow biological males into girls' bathrooms and locker rooms. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion programs have replaced academic rigor with political activism. And the Department of Education — which has no constitutional basis for existence — continues to expand its reach into local classrooms.
Lauren will vote to abolish the Department of Education and return education authority to states and local communities. She will support a federal Parents' Bill of Rights requiring schools to disclose curriculum, notify parents of any gender-related discussions with their children, and obtain parental consent before any medical or psychological intervention.
She will also fight to protect girls' sports. Biological males have no place competing in women's athletic categories, and Lauren will support federal legislation making this the law of the land for any institution receiving federal funding.
"I have six children. Nobody — no school board, no federal agency, no activist teacher — has more authority over my kids than I do. That's not a political position. That's a fact of nature.
— Lauren B. Peña
Pass a federal Parents' Bill of Rights
Require schools receiving federal funding to disclose curriculum, notify parents of gender-related discussions, and obtain consent before any psychological or medical intervention.
Abolish the Department of Education
Return education authority to states and local communities where it constitutionally belongs, ending federal ideological mandates on local schools.
Protect girls' sports
Pass federal legislation prohibiting biological males from competing in women's athletic categories at any institution receiving federal funding.
End CRT and DEI in federally funded schools
Prohibit the use of federal education funds for Critical Race Theory curricula, DEI programming, and other politically motivated ideological content.
Protect medical parental consent
Require parental consent for any gender-related medical intervention on minors and prohibit federal funding for gender transition procedures on children.