Policy Priorities
Advocating for and executing the implementation of patriotic education in our schools.
Developing model legislation and policies focused on promoting patriotic curriculum and blocking divisive concepts like Critical Race Theory that state legislators can consider implementing.
Driving transparency on the curriculum in our schools.
Educating parents, school officials, and legislators.
Educating America’s educators.
America’s Founding Fathers recognized that “all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights …” Sadly today, academic elites and demagogues challenge this self-evident proposition, choosing instead to embrace identity politics, division, and submission. The America First Policy Institute (AFPI) will work to affirm and celebrate America — not as an aesthetic act, but as a moral statement. Our work aims to promulgate American values in our educational institutions and through our Nation’s citizens — not as a look back at the past, but as the foundation of our future.
As we approach the 250th anniversary of our country’s founding, we find ourselves at a crossroads. Our Nation is more polarized than ever before, and American patriotism and the values that founded the greatest political experiment of all time are under attack. The America First Policy Institute (AFPI) will disseminate the truth about the American founding into our Nation’s schools and homes to restore national unity and pride through a renewed understanding of our founding.
POLICY PRIORITIES
The AFPI Center for 1776 will advance policies that aid parents, citizens, educators, officeholders, and leaders in their efforts to ensure that Americans know and celebrate the true, accurate, and full American story. The ideals upon which the Nation was founded are the ideas that animate our work.
Team
Lou Holtz
Chair, Center for 1776
Jack Brewer
Chair, Center for Opportunity Now and Vice Chair, Center for 1776
Alexandra Caro Campana
Director, Center for 1776 and Director, Center for Opportunity Now
Governor Phil Bryant
Senior Advisor
Jerry C. Davis, Ph.D.
Senior Advisor, Center for 1776
James Baehr
Senior Fellow, Center for 1776
Andy Puzder
Senior Fellow
Julia Butch
Policy Analyst, Center for Education Opportunity and Center for 1776
Cole Mushegan
Policy Analyst, Center for 1776
Latest
Fact Sheet
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November 22, 2024
Radical Gender Theory Status Update: Georgia
The America Last infiltration of radical gender theory in schools and in the public sphere puts children at risk and renders parents helpless.
Fact Sheet
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October 11, 2024
America First vs. America Last Report Card: K-12 Mathematics Achievement
America First policies provide educational options for families and focus on core subject expertise, while America Last policies infiltrate public schools with radical ideologies and disempower parents by limiting options.
Fact Sheet
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October 11, 2024
America First vs. America Last Report Card: U.S. History
America First policies provide educational options for families and focus on core subject expertise, while America Last policies infiltrate public schools with radical ideologies and disempower parents by limiting options. The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) U.S. history assessment is administered to representative samples of fourth-grade students across the country.
Fact Sheet
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October 9, 2024
America First vs. America Last Report Card: K-12 Reading Achievement
Fact Sheet
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September 30, 2024
Minnesota’s Record on Education: High Costs with Poor Results
Minnesota policymakers spend on everything but school choice.
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