Linda McMahon Promotes Education Choice in Senate Hearing

As the nominee for Secretary of Education, Linda McMahon, said in her confirmation hearing last week, “Education is the issue that determines our national success.” And yet education in America has been broken for decades. Fixing it will be a gargantuan task, one that requires overhauling the regulations and taking on the education bureaucrats that […]

White House To End Public School Indoctrination, Expand School Choice

It’s National School Choice Week, and with a White House and Congress openly in favor of educational choice, there’s a lot to celebrate. While the battle to provide greater educational options for families has predominately taken place at the local level, for the first time in years advocates are optimistic that real change will finally […]

Time to Protect Parents’ God-Given Right to Direct the Upbringing of Their Children

President Trump’s allusion to America’s “Golden Age” may mean new opportunities for innovation and growth, but it also means the chance to protect certain fundamental rights from ever being threatened again by a future administration. One bill that aims to do that is the Families’ Rights and Responsibilities Act (FRRA). The right of parents to […]

Conservative Women Support Linda McMahon

Concerned Women for America Legislative Action Committee sent this letter to the United States Senate as it gets ready to consider the nomination of President Trump’s choice to lead the U.S. Department of Education.

Senate Tees Up Bill To Protect Women’s Sports

The side of truth and common sense is winning in the gender ideology war. After years of fighting to protect women’s sports at the federal level, a bill will soon be voted out of the Senate and sent to the White House that will finally do just that. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama) reintroduced the Protection […]

A Case for Closing the Department of Education

For many school choice advocates, shuttering the Department of Education (ED) has long been seen as an unattainable dream. However, President-elect Trump has upset the education establishment by announcing his intention to dismantle the federal-level agency. If his administration is successful in doing so, the closure of ED would be an incredible boon to the […]

CWA Files a Federal Civil Rights Complaint Against San Jose State University for Willful Violations of Title IX in Women’s Volleyball

CWA Files a Federal Civil Rights Complaint Against San Jose State University for Willful Violations of Title IX in Women’s Volleyball For Immediate ReleaseSeptember 26, 2024 Contact:  CWA Communications [email protected]  | (847) 682-1730 Washington, DC — Today, Concerned Women for America (CWA) filed a civil rights complaint to the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil […]

Title IX Rule Debate in Congress

For Immediate ReleaseJuly 11, 2024 Contact:  CWA Communications [email protected] Title IX Rule Debate in Congress Coalition of women’s groups demands protection for female athletes and safe spaces. Washington, D.C. – Concerned Women for America Legislative Action Committee (CWALAC), the nation’s largest public policy women’s organization, joined a coalition of women’s groups urging Congress to step in […]

Women for America Network Continues to Fight Biden’s Assault on Title IX

As part of the Our Bodies, Our Sports coalition (the largest and most ideologically diverse women’s movement of our time), Concerned Women for America LAC (CWALAC) and Young Women for America (YWA) sent a letter to the U.S. Congress emphasizing our opposition to the Biden Administration’s unconstitutional Title IX rewrites, which destroy the meaning of […]

2024 Senate Election Rundown

The kids may be on summer vacation, but the political world is gearing up for one of the most consequential elections in American history. What’s at stake For the past three and a half years, the Senate has been where good laws go to be stalled, blockaded, and killed by the legislative calendar. While the […]

Ending Child Exploitation Starts with Reforming Big Tech Liability

The online exploitation of children is an epidemic ravaging our communities. While the advent of social media made connecting to distant friends and relatives an easier task, it also gave predators easier access to vulnerable children. Now, thanks to the digital age, the online sexual exploitation of children is a rampant issue that touches every […]

Women Demand Congress Protect Children from Online Pornography

(Action item at the end of the article.) The “Shielding Children’s Retinas from Egregious Exposure on the Net” (SCREEN) Act would require pornographic adult websites to implement age verification technology to ensure children are protected from accessing harmful content. This bill should not be partisan. In fact, it should be one of the easiest bills to […]

Trump v. Biden 2024—Spotlight on Education

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In November, voters will choose between two radically different visions of education in America. One favors the public education system and supports the teacher unions’ view that more resources are what is needed to fix our broken system. The other proposes decentralizing education decisions, weakening federal mandates and powerful unions, to empower parents as the […]

Chipping Away at the Rot Within Public Education

For the past several years, Americans have become increasingly aware of the rot within public education. The clearest sign came this week, when the President of the nation’s most elite, taxpayer-funded university, Harvard, had to resign due to serial plagiarism, not to mention her apathetic approach to antisemitism. But the problem, as you know, has […]

Eyes on the chalkboard, not the smart phone

“The Biden Administration is trying to expand social media access to children in school, never mind that students are still trying to catch up for the loss of learning during Covid, and the last thing they need is more time on TikTok and Instagram,” says Maggie McKneely, Legislative Strategist for Concerned Women for America in […]

Biden Admin Weaponizes School Programs to Force Transgender Ideology

Millions of kids from low-income families rely on the public-school lunch program for at least one full meal per day. And yet the Biden Administration is weaponizing that program in order to push its radical transgender policy. This week, 47 Senators voted against this with Sen. Roger Marshall’s (R-Kansas) School Lunch Congressional Review Act (CRA). […]

Guardrails on Screentime in Schools is Good Commonsense Policy

While America’s schoolchildren are playing catch-up from years of COVID-induced learning loss, the federal government keeps expanding access to disruptive social media sites on school property. Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-Texas) recently introduced legislation, “Eyes on the Board” (S. 3074), would promote learning, and not social media scrolling, within schools. The negative effects of social media […]

For Such a Time as This with Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears

This special episode of Women for America was recorded at Concerned Women for America’s recent Leadership Summit 2023, where CWA CEO and President Penny Nance sat down with Virginia Lieutenant Governor Winsome Earle-Sears (Republican) to learn about her faith journey and how that has impacted where she is now. Listen to the new episode below. […]

Looking Forward to Serving You

My name is Maggie McKneely and I am excited to join the Concerned Women for America (CWA) team as a Legislative Strategist. CWA’s bold adherence to Biblical truths and willingness to fight for them is refreshing in a city that seduces so many to conform to this world. It’s an organization I’m proud to represent.   […]