Trump Administration Launches Anti-Predator Initiative for Schools K-12

Catherine Salgado : Jul 13, 2026
PJ Media

"Our schools must protect America's children. Parents should never have to wonder whether their kids' school employs and protects sexual predators." -US Secretary of Education Linda McMahon

[PJMedia.com] The Trump-McMahon Department of Education (ED) has launched a new initiative to crack down on the serious problem of sexual predators in America's public schools. (Screengrab image: via Fox News)

ED's Office for Civil Rights (OCR) on July 10 launched the K-12 project and explained why in a press release. "The Trump Administration has observed a troubling and recurring pattern in schools across the nation of credible reports of sexual abuse and harassment by adults in positions of authority going uninvestigated or of suspected offenders being transferred to new schools or roles in the district," ED stated.

In fact, to give an example from just one major city, in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), with its United Teachers LA union, the internal policy is to reassign teachers or administrators facing accusations regarding sexual misconduct. That includes everything from sexual harassment to child pornography to distributing sex videos to minors to actively sleeping with minors. Over approximately the last year, LAUSD has had to borrow $750 million to settle sexual misconduct cases, just to give context on how many cases they have and how they keep perpetuating the problem. God knows how many children and teenagers have suffered abuse from serial offenders because LA education officials refuse to do anything but move predators from one school to the next.

ED referred to such policies as "passing the trash." In response to seeing it in practice in numerous school districts across the nation, ED has set forth guidance for... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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