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Notarfrancesco: Pueblo D70 Schools handed kids’ emotional data to political NGOs without parental consent

It is said there is no such thing as a free lunch. One small school district in Pueblo, Colorado, recently learned that a free lunch can be served with a side of community outrage.

When the Pueblo D70 Board of Education unanimously voted in March of 2024 to “accept” a significant in-kind gift of $700,000 from the organization TRAILS (Transforming Research into Action to Improve the Lives of Students), did they realize what they were implementing in district classrooms?

D70 accepted a “gift” of controversial psychosocial educational content, financed and promoted by multi-million-dollar non-governmental organizations dedicated to transforming the world through social change.

Gimelshteyn: CPAN files federal complaint over D70’s deceptive TRAILS program violating rights

Rocky Mountain Voice, Approved, Commentary, Local, Top Stories / May 9, 2025 / Civil Rights Complaint, Colorado Parent Advocacy Network (CPAN), Federal investigation, Ideological grooming, Parental Rights, Pueblo County School District 70, Social Emotional Learning, Student Data Collection, Student privacy, TRAILS

On April 25th, the Colorado Parent Advocacy Network (CPAN) filed a formal civil rights complaint with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR), urging an investigation into Pueblo County School District 70 (D70) and its use of the “Transforming Research into Action to Improve the Lives of Students Social Emotional Learning” (TRAILS) program.

Our complaint is a direct response to the district’s reckless decision to embed this program into classrooms without parental consent, without transparency, and in direct violation of federal law.

TRAILS, which was deceptively marketed as a “gift” to the district, is directly connected to the Tides Foundation, a radical political nonprofit. Under TRAILS, students are subjected to mental health screenings, data collection on their emotions and coping skills, and exposure to controversial content, including advertisements promoting organizations like Trans Lifeline.

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