Old North News

The president of the Raleigh, N.C.,-based Education First Alliance (EFA) criticized The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) after the latter listed EFA in its “Year In Hate and Extremism 2022” report. 

"We are delighted to be designated by SPLC as a hate group," Sloan Rachmuth, founder and president of EFA, told Old North News. "Clearly, saving children from being sexualized, sterilized, and mutilated has triggered the pedophiles at SPLC."

The SPLC says its report includes “1225 hate and anti-government groups across the U.S.,” including 43 groups located in North Carolina. 

EFA's Web site says it is "an organization fighting for parental rights and against schools radicalizing and sexualizing children. The company is headed by president and founder Sloan Rachmuth. 

U.S. Senator J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) last week criticized the SPLC for including groups like EFA in its report.

"The SPLC is a garbage organization now dedicated to harassing groups that advocate for parents," tweeted Vance. "In the future, their pronouncements must be met with scorn."

The Washington Free Beacon reported on June 7, 2023 that White House records show the author of the report, Susan Corke, director of the SPLC's Intelligence Project, met with members of the Biden Administration on January 6 of this year.

"While it is unclear what Corke discussed in the White House visit, the meeting was held amid growing pressure on the Biden administration to track parents upset by schools' coronavirus policies and left-wing classroom curricula," reported the Free Beacon. "Moms for Liberty and Parents Defending Education have emerged as the leading grassroots groups in the movement against mask mandates at schools and curricula that promote critical race theory and transgender issues."