ms. neily. welcome. >> chairman, ranking members, and distinguished members, thank you for inviting me. i'm the president and founder of parents defending education and the executive director. american education is in crisis. for too long, u.s. schools have focused on everything but educating children. our children are bearing brunt of these bad decisions. schools are focused on the wrong priorities. identity politics permeate districts across america. children are regularly treated differently based on race. color conscious, which considers colorblindness to be negative, is present in colleges. 80 years after brown v. board of education,ization exists where students and teachers are included or excluded because of skin color. they promote programs like this, hosting professional development training. district d.e.i. consultants are paid millions per year. in the wake of october 7, antisemitism spiked in colleges and k-12 schools. from lesson plans about colonialism or sidewalk can as, the lack