PragerU keeps expanding its reach

The right-wing misinformation machine is leading an aggressive marketing campaign to get into public schools. [Courier]( Friend, Earlier this year, our Arizona newsroom, The Copper Courier, was the first to break an important story about PragerU’s mission to put right-wing misinformation in Arizona’s public schools. The Copper Courier, January 31, 2024 Since that news broke, PragerU has only expanded. According to a new article in the right-wing blog Breitbart, “In the last year, seven states — Florida, Texas, Oklahoma, Arizona, New Hampshire, Montana, and Louisiana — have authorized PragerU videos in public school classrooms. More states will be coming on board soon.” [We’ll talk more about PragerU and why this matters in a second, but breaking important stories like these takes a tremendous amount of resources. If you want to help us continue to inform people in news deserts around the country about the issues in their communities, can you pitch in $20?]( If you’re not familiar, PragerU is a right-wing media company that produces an educational “curriculum” for kids containing videos like “What Radical Islam and the Woke Have in Common" and "Is There Really a Climate Emergency?" They even have a guest course taught by Tucker Carlson. In the last year, PragerU has led a successful effort to lobby state Departments of Education into using their materials in public school classrooms, all the way down to the preschool level. Their materials are currently authorized for use in seven different states across the country, including Arizona. Their founder, Dennis Prager, recently took to Breitbart to brag about PragerU’s influence in public schools as “an effective inoculation to the junk your kids are learning at most public schools.” And he’s just getting started. In his Breitbart op-ed, Prager said: “Week by week we’re building up a corpus of knowledge that will encompass the important ideas that have shaped and are shaping our world from ancient Israel to modern America… We share that goal — teaching traditional Judeo-Christian values — with many others. If we work together, we can repair American education and make it great again for all our students.” Look – PragerU will not stop until they’re in as many public schools as possible. They’re aggressively marketing their materials to state officials who make critical decisions about education policy in their states. And that’s what makes COURIER’s work so important. With your continued support, our newsrooms can continue to hold state officials who enact these policies. Parents in these states deserve to know what their kids might be learning in school, and we’re proud to provide that service in communities where bad information is likely to spread. [If you want to help support our ten other battleground newsrooms like The Copper Courier, can you pitch in $20 now?]( Express Donate: If you've stored your info with ActBlue Express, we'll process your contribution instantly: [$5]( [$15]( [$25]( [$50]( Thanks, The COURIER Team --------------------------------------------------------------- Email us: info@couriernewsroom.com [Become a member!]( This message was sent to: {EMAIL}. Email is a critical way we communicate with grassroots supporters like you. However, if you would like to change your subscription preferences, here are some options: [Receive Fewer Emails]( [Update Your Information]( [unsubscribe]( To give by check: Courier Newsroom Box 509 New York, NY 10032