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Investigative grassroots program Defending Education uncovered a 36-page protest \u201ctoolkit\u201d designed to mobilize schoolchildren and teach them how to organize and execute left-wing protests. Alliance for Education Justice (AEJ) developed the leftist guide, which anonymous tipsters sent to Defending Education earlier this month to expose political activists targeting children in public schools. <\/p>\n

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The toolkit aims to turn children into leftist warriors more focused on protesting for \u201csocial justice\u201d issues than on their education. As Senior Director of Strategic Initiatives at Defending Education Paul Runko told The Federalist, \u201c[The left] is putting children on the front lines. It\u2019s absolutely gross.\u201d<\/p>\n

The toolkit contains bundles of colorful graphics for K-12 children on how to \u201cmak[e] injustice impossible to ignore\u201d while \u201cshifting who holds power in a moment\u201d in the classroom.\u00a0AEJ\u2019s document opens with this unsettling statement:<\/p>\n

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Across the country, young people are already angry, restless, and taking action in response to conditions that affect their safety, dignity, and futures. \u2026 This toolkit exists because students are already moving. Our role is not to create unrest, but to help young people organize their energy safely, strategically, and toward the people and institutions responsible for the harm.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The toolkit goes on to promote walkouts that \u201cintentionally break school rules\u201d to \u201cinterrupt business as usual and demand accountability.\u201d It states that the goal of a walkout is to force school officials into a \u201cdecision dilemma: meet the demands and make changes, or respond in ways that expose the injustice being defended.\u201d The toolkit recommends wearing clothing that obscures the face or tattoos at walkouts and utilizing the encrypted messaging app Signal to keep plans secret. Parts of the booklet go beyond encouraging protests to explaining how to organize them. About 20 pages are dedicated to teaching young provocateurs how to create organized groups with appointed roles. Some sections go over setting up a police liaison team, while others teach how to stay out of legal trouble.<\/p>\n

The booklet does not define what a protest-worthy issue is, but the pages are covered with children holding leftist slogan signs. One says \u201cPol-ICE free schools.\u201d Another says, \u201cWhere\u2019s the outrage for Renee Good, Alexi Pretti, Keith Porter, and others that were killed by ICE?\u201d Deeper in the booklet, a young man holds a picture of President Trump\u2019s face melting with the words\u201cDefund Walls\u201d printed over his head.<\/p>\n

The creator of the toolkit, the AEJ, is a nonprofit \u201ccollaborative of 30 youth-led education activist groups\u201d working to \u201cgrow the left-progressive movement,\u201d according to InfluenceWatch. One thousand high school students are reportedly a part of the AEJ, and, according to Runko, the AEJ actively drove or participated in the police-free schools movement, the social justice event National Day of Action, and the March for Our Lives anti-gun protests.<\/p>\n

The AEJ leverages social media to attract young activists and then uses them to organize school-wide protests. Runko believes that most children do not care about the issues they protest, but they will take an opportunity to skip class.\u201dIf the school [has] no consequences for [a] walkout, why not leave class? What\u2019s the consequences? None. That\u2019s how [protests] bolster their numbers,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The number of school protests has drastically risen over recent years. In 2024, 24 school walkouts occurred. That number increased in 2025 to 59 and exploded to 401 in 2026.<\/p>\n

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Though the number of school walkouts is on the rise, they are nonetheless violations of attendance law. Under Des Moines v. Tinker<\/em>, the Supreme Court indicated that school districts should prohibit or stop walkouts if they disrupt the learning environment, Runko said. While some schools claim they are protecting children\u2019s rights by refusing to interfere, the truth is \u201cthese walkouts are in fact violating that school ruling, and school districts are just brushing it off,\u201d Runko noted.<\/p>\n

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation was one of AEJ\u2019s initial funders, and the AEJ also receives monetary support from a conglomerate of leftist organizations, such as the Marguerite Casey Foundation, New Venture Fund, and Tides Foundation. Notably, Tides Foundation received $17.2 million from leftist billionaire George Soros through his Open Society Foundations between 2009 and 2022. AEJ seeks to create \u201cpolice-free\u201d schools as part of the Black Lives Matter movement. <\/p>\n

Runko suspects a disturbing motive behind the AEJ and other organizers of school protests: \u201cpolitical revolution.\u201d<\/p>\n

Many of the socialist organizations behind left-wing student activism state they desire some kind of revolution. The opening to a political training guidebook by the Sunrise Movement says, \u201cWe\u2019re not going to get there overnight, and we\u2019re not here to get back to the status quo. We\u2019re here to win a political revolution.\u201d The Young Democratic Socialists of America say on their website that \u201c[America\u2019s] capitalist system can only be overthrown by workers organizing collectively to take political power from the rich and build a new society.\u201d<\/p>\n

Runko thinks leftist organizations are manipulating and targeting the youth because their movements lost power to the right under Trump. \u201cThe left far very much wants their political power back. They\u2019re going to amp these [protests] up,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

If children are ever to be safe from leftist indoctrination, Runko believes that education must begin in the home. \u201c[Parents] must talk to their kids about what they\u2019re learning [and] encourage them to seek out the truth,\u201d he said. He also recommends that parents opt their children out of compromised curricula and get involved with local school board committees and meetings, and \u201cthen start to tell a better story to sway people to a pro-Western civilization mindset.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Federalist reached out to the AEJ for comment, but did not receive a response by the time of publication.<\/p>\n

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