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. […]
Parental Rights—A Worthy Hill to Rest in Peace

God bless Pastor John K. Amanchukwu Sr. He is the salt-and-light follower of Christ who is exposing the filth being taught to our children in public schools. He was recently removed from a school board meeting where he simply read from a pornographic book available to young students at Indian River County in Florida. What he read […]
Nance on Fox Nation’s Kennedy Saves the World

On June 15, Penny Nance, CEO and President of Concerned Women for America (CWA), joined Fox Nation’s Kennedy Saves the World to share how CWA is fighting for parents to have a voice when it comes to their children’s education. You can listen to the episode below.
Penny Nance Joins Fox Business To Discuss North Carolina Governor’s Education “State of Emergency”

Earlier this week, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (Democrat) declared a “state of emergency” in order to stir up controversy over the educational choice bills that the legislature has placed on his desk. Penny Nance, CEO and President of Concerned Women for America joined Kennedy on FOX Business Network to discuss how politicians like Gov. […]
Parents Deserve Public School Transparency

There has been an increase in recent years of parents raising their concerns in school board meetings across the nation. Their concerns range from radical gender and racial curriculum to boys being able to use girls’ restrooms, but they all share the common thread of public schools usurping the parent’s responsibility of raising their children. […]
Parental Protection not Paranoia

The truth will set you free! Vanity Fair reporter Caleb Ecarma in a recent article “How the Right is Turning Political Paranoia into ‘Parents’ Rights’” skews and takes out of context comments made by Penny Nance, CEO and President of Concerned Women for America, to the reporter directly and on a panel discussion at CPAC. […]
You Gotta Love Educational Savings Accounts

ESAs, as they are known, empower parents to make the best choice for their children’s education. It gives parents some of the public funds that the state often misuses in each child’s public education, allowing parents to use it for educational purposes in the best way they see fit. For example, parents can use it […]
Nance: Give parents the power of the purse – educational savings accounts.

Concerned Women for America (CWA) believes every child deserves educational freedom and that a zip code should not determine a student’s success. In her just published op-ed for Newsweek, Penny Nance, CWA’s CEO and President, discusses the important option of Educational Saving Accounts. Penny had this to say in the article, “Give parents the power of […]
States Rejoice for School Choice

Every child deserves educational freedom. At Concerned Women for America Legislative Action Committee (CWALAC), we saw landmark developments in the states for the school choice movement during National School Choice Week. Gov. Kim Reynolds (R-Iowa) listened to the voices of parents in Iowa and signed key education policy into law. Under Iowa’s Students First Act, […]
Loudoun County Hellscape Part II: Reckless Disregard for Women’s Safety

The abduction and sexual assault of a female student at Broad Run High School were preventable. This much the grand jury report states unequivocally—and appropriately so. The school administrators’ reckless disregard for women’s safety was systemic and has been going on for years at Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS). When the perpetrator raped a young woman at […]
Loudoun County Hellscape Part I.5: Indictments Issued

Part II of our series discussing Loudoun County Public Schools’ reckless disregard for women’s safety will be published later this week (for more background, please read Part I of this series). But I felt an update was needed before that. This week, the court unsealed four indictments against two Loudoun County Public School employees. I want to express […]
Loudoun County Hellscape Part I: Victims Be Damned

The weight of writing about this story has been almost unbearable. Every keystroke requires an unusual sort of effort accompanied by a prayer that God may grant the grace of a positive impact. “Positive” is not a word you would associate with the events of the past few years at Loudoun County Public Schools. And […]
Nance: 2022 is the Year of the Parent
Concerned Women for America’s CEO and President, Penny Nance, joined The Victory Channel to discuss the recall of three San Francisco school board members and the upcoming battle to save women’s sports. Listen to the full interview below.
Shining a Light on Education

I believe it was Voltaire who said, “Common sense is not so common.” Such is the case for the educational bureaucracy suffocating our children’s future with their sociological experiments in public schools. Parental involvement and transparency seem like common sense requirements to any successful public-school program, but not according to the radicals who so often […]
Concerned Women Applaud Virginia AG Miyares for his Public Universities COVID-19 Vaccines Opinion

Attorney General Jason Miyares issued a legal opinion today that Virginia colleges cannot require their students to receive the COVID-19 vaccine as a general condition of students’ enrollment or in-person attendance. Miyares highlights the opinion that “as recognized in the prior opinion, ‘[t]here is no question that the General Assembly could enact a statute requiring […]
Nance Discusses Justice Breyer’s retirement and Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona with EWTN

Concerned Women for America’s CEO and President, Penny Nance joined EWTN to discuss Justice Breyer’s retirement and Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona. Listen to the full interview below to hear about the upcoming Supreme Court confirmation battle and the Biden Administrations’ war on parents. Nance Discusses Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona with EWTN from Concerned […]
Nance calls on the Secretary of Education to resign.

Penny Nance, Concerned Women for America’s CEO and President, joined conservative leaders calling on U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona to resign, citing revelations from a Freedom of Information Act request uncovering his personal involvement in the National School Boards Association letter that prompted the Attorney General of the United States to issue a directive […]