EXCLUSIVE: Liberal foundations funnel millions to red states for woke schools programs; parents demand change

A coalition of more than two dozen parents organizations are requesting that five foundations, including the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, stop funding race-based and social and emotional learning programs in public schools.

"We are constantly being told that there's not enough money in our school system," Parents Defending Education President Nicole Neily told Fox News. "Yet we find out that not only are all these things taking place in our school system with our tax dollars … but there's also a lot of outside money coming in."

A Parents Defending Education investigation last month found that from 2017 through 2021, 72 school districts received more than $200 million from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; the W.K. Kellogg Foundation; the Wallace Foundation; the Windward Fund; and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Fox News first reported.