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I am running for State Board of Education to
1) Prioritize foundational academics first and protect children from sexualization, dangerous socio-economic agendas, mental and behavioral conditioning, and ideologies that seek to transform their attitudes, values, and behaviors, and exploit them for profit, power, and pleasure.
2) Reign in and limit schools to to their proper role - objective, foundational academics.

1) Districts throughout Utah are pushing CRT, DEI, PCBL SEL and restorative justice (leniency) policies under the pretext of student supports and services, PBIS, MTSS, RTI, and LRBI. I will continue to educate the public on the harms of these programs - no matter how the language around them changes. I will continue to bring forward amendments to our Board rules, policies, and standards to help root out language that allows teachers to teach and practice these divisive programs and policies.
2) Districts are fighting against laws that have passed to remove sexually-explicit content from schools. Loopholes are written into our laws and Rules that give schools excuses to keep the filth in the schools.
As a Board member, I will continue to put forward stronger language to make tighter rules and work with legislators on bill language that doesn't just give lip-service to protecting children, but that actually removes harmful content, makes its illegal, and holds school personnel accountable when they fail to comply with the law.

I champion all education options being open to parents, based on my belief that the parents' role is all-encompassing and preeminent in the life and education of their children. I am opposed to government-funded "school choice" as it actually limits choices to only those that are government-approved.

I have researched the government-funded "school-choice" issue at length and have found that the simple adage of "what government funds, government controls" is true. Government-funded school choice money requires parents being accountable to government instead of to God. Over time, government-funded "school choice" will only lead to more of the corrupting influence that has already occurred within in the public school system, but this time it will be the corrupting of the private and home-school realm.

Please see my research and articles on this issue and other educational issues on my website https://higherground.work/school-choice-case

Short of criminal behavior, the role of parents over the upbringing, well-being, and education of their children is preeminent and all-encompassing. These parental rights are inherent and not granted by the state, but by God.

The role of the state and of government schools over a child's upbringing and education should be minimal and narrowly defined, and within those narrow parameters, their role should be further limited to only what the parent delegates to them. The state and government schools have no inherent right to, claim on, or control over the family or the parents' children - their education, upbringing, or futures.

I absolutely do not believe that America is inherently racist. Being racist is an individual trait and not a trait that can be broadly attributed to an entire nation. To call all whites "racist" is to stereotype whites. Stereotyping is a collectivist mindset, but America was founded on individualism. Individuals succeed or fail based on hard work and merit. In America it does not matter what your race or skin color. Nothing is more un-American than to push a false stereotype that "America is inherently racist." Has there been racism in our past? Yes, just like every other nation has had at times, more or less, throughout history. America had largely overcome this blight on its history, until CRT and DEI were created to resurrect it once again.

When I first ran for State Board in 2020, I did so with the commitment to stop policies, programs, and practices that push CSE, DEI, SEL that corrupt every aspect of learning, are the antithesis of a quality education, irreversibly harm children, and are destructive of faith, family, freedom, and freedom. These ideologies constitute indoctrination, not education. My record is clear. I have been the foremost fighter in the state of Utah against these dangerous ideologies that seek to transform our children's attitudes, values, and beliefs away from those taught in the home and in church and toward a new state dogma with its own values and beliefs. This is being done for the purpose of turning children into social change agents to facilitate a radical cultural revolution aimed at weakening America from within. This is NOT OKAY. I will continue to fearlessly expose these programs and fight to get them out.

In order to protect children from these destructive teachings and propaganda-laden environments, I co-authored a piece of ground-breaking legislation that passed in 2023 with a super-majority. This bill, HB348, was dubbed the "Rights of Conscience" bill and it puts the power back where it belongs - with parents - rather than giving more power to the system. This new legislation gives children protection in the moment to refrain from any aspect of school that violates their religious belief or right of conscience - or that of their parents - without fear being penalized or discriminated against. This law was based on a provision from Utah's Constitution that simply states, "The rights of conscience shall NEVER be infringed." I have had to travel the state to make parents aware of this legislation as the education system has no desire or incentive to tell parents about the protections it provides. You can find the state code as amended by the bill here: https://le.utah.gov/xcode/Title53G/Chapter10/53G-10-S205.html?v=C53G-10-S205_2023050320230503

As a State Board member, and a member of the Standards & Assessment Committee, I have worked tirelessly trying to improve the standards. However, we currently do not have a majority on the board, so very few of my amendments make it through to the final product. Nevertheless, I am not deterred. I want the public to know that I am still fighting for them. In addition to working on policy, I spend a lot of my time researching and reporting back to the public of my troubling findings around local, national, and global agendas that seek to transform education away from foundational academics. The following list is the work I've already done in this area, and that if re-elected, that I will continue to do:
1️⃣ PRIORITIZE foundational academics first:
● proposed going back to tried & true pre-common core math and reading standards
● brought forward hundreds of amendments to restore sound, objective, depoliticized, and de-wokified academic standards
● advocated for returning to the simple art of classical teaching learning, and allowing for non-tech options for students who learn better using books, paper, pencil, etc.
●exposed the plummeting of reading, math, and science assessment scores starting pre-pandemic (statewide average - only 40-50% of students are at grade level) juxtaposed against average statewide graduation rate of 88%); and the exponential increase in education spending to demonstrate that education in Utah is fundamentally broken
● exposed the subjective & dumbed-down nature of "competency-based" standards, transcripts, and proficiency-based grading.
● exposed the removal of merit-based standard for academic advancement in favor of "equity," "diversity," and "inclusion" advancement criteria, as well as the consequential lowering of academic quality and increased politicization of IB, AP, CTE and other previously advanced courses.

Girls' private spaces are no longer safe. I have traveled our state warning parents of the weaponization of Title IX and how it has been subverted and is being used against the safety and privacy of biological girls due to the Biden administration's new interpretation of Title IX which redefines sex to include sexual orientation and gender identity, and redefines discrimination and harassment as not allowing biological males to have access to private female spaces or to play on girls' sports teams. I attended and then exposed a US Department of Education Title IX training where they laid out their plan to come after every state that fails to comply with these new regulations. I have worked with parents to file Title IX complaints of their own because their own daughters are being discriminated against by being denied safe and private, sex-segregated spaces. As a State Board member, I have attended local school board meetings to speak on behalf of parents in my local district who are dealing with this problem and whose concerns are falling on deaf ears. I will continue to fight for parents and their children who are trying to navigate these increasingly difficult situations and need elected officials who actually care about their concerns and try to help them find solutions rather than stonewall them.

Title IX is in serious jeopardy of becoming the exact opposite of what it was intended to be. The Biden administration has subverted and weaponized it against the very girls it was instituted to protect. This was done by redefining sex to include sexual orientation and gender identity, and criminalizing any that is not okay with biological males having access to private female spaces and girls' sports teams as discriminatory and harassing. I attended, and then exposed, an egregious US Department of Education Title IX training where they laid out their plan to come after every state that is passing laws to protect girls' private spaces and girls' sports. As a State Board member, I have been very vocal on this issue, doing public presentations to inform and warn, and attending local school board meetings to speak on behalf of parents in my local district who are dealing with this problem and whose concerns are falling on deaf ears. I have also helped parents understand the actual language of bills that purported to protect girls' sports and private spaces, but actually made allowances for males to be in female sports or private spaces if they met certain criteria. This is not okay. Parents deserve to know the truth so they can act on the best interest of their children to ensure their safety and privacy. I will continue to be a voice on this issue regardless of attempts to silence me.

The endorsements I value most are from parents and good teachers who have come to me for help. I have not solicited these endorsements, but they flood in every time the state launches another attack against me - attacks that come because I am fighting against dangerous ideologies and practices and policies that put our children in harms way. I literally have hundreds of these endorsements, far to many to list. Here is just a sampling: https://nataliejcline.com/#endorsements