What's the Great Parental Awakening? IWF's new Education Freedom Center Director, Ginny Gentles, explains it all.                                     

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Independent Women’s Forum is delighted to see our own Virginia—Ginny—Gentles, director of our new Education Freedom Center, as the latest entry into our popular series of Champion Women profiles. ([link removed])

During the pandemic, which alerted parents to some of the shortcomings of the nation’s public schools, Ginny found herself facing the same dilemma as countless other American parents: what can we do to ensure union-driven closures of public schools don’t result in permanent learning loss for millions of children—including mine?

Fortunately, Ginny was able to pull her two daughters out of the Arlington County public school system and get them into a small faith-based school. But what about other parents? A longtime advocate of school choice, Ginny knew what was needed: more parental choice in education. The stars aligned and in April IWF launched the Education Freedom Center (EFC), with Ginny at the helm.

“The job of the Center is to shine a light on what’s going on in classrooms,” Gentles, who goes by Ginny, says, “because part of education freedom is understanding what kids are being taught and then making choices accordingly. Like Ginny, IWF is no newcomer to the school choice battle. But the Center offers new resources for parents.

“IWF’s support of school choice predates my affiliation with IWF,” Ginny explains. “You can go to the IWF website and look back over a decade ago. There are numerous blogs and profiles of Virginia Walden Ford, a pioneer in the education freedom space, and calls for support for the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program, which is a federally funded school choice program.

Ginny has been in the trenches for a long time, but now she believes she is seeing something new happening.

We know you’ll enjoy meeting Ginny, learning about her family’s generations-long belief in a quality education, and finding out about this new thing that’s happening.
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Charlotte Hays
Cultural Director
Independent Women's Forum

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