National Strategic Vision
Reclaiming the 1859 Constitutional Compact
The American Heritage: A Trust for Democracy
The Common School Alliance (CSA) exists to protect a heritage that predates the Constitution itself. Since the Revolutionary War and the earliest mapping of our nation, the Founding Fathers recognized that a self-governing republic could only survive if its citizens were educated through a Sovereign Public Trust.
Through the Land Ordinance of 1785 and the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, our nation established a revolutionary fiduciary model: setting aside specific sections of land in every township to provide perpetual revenue for "Common Schools."
"Religion, morality, and knowledge, being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged."
— Northwest Ordinance of 1787, Article III
Advocacy & Legal Structure
The Alliance operates through two primary legal engines. Advocates for School Trust Lands (ASTL), a national non-profit doing business as the Common School Alliance (CSA), provides national oversight and strategy. Its state chapters, including the Oregon Association of School Trust Lands (OASTL)—doing business as Oregon’s Constitutional School Alliance (OCSA)—manage state-specific fiduciary and operational litigation.
The Modern Transgression
What was intended as a Sovereign Public Trust to produce independent citizens has been converted into an opaque bureaucracy used to foster state-mandated orthodoxy. The CSA exists to remind the nation of this original "Handshake"—where the State manages the Land, the Land funds the Infrastructure, and the family retains the ultimate authority over the child’s moral and ideological formation.
Cooperation First
The CSA is strictly nonpartisan. We prefer to work cooperatively with legislatures and school boards to provide the roadmap back to Constitutional Grace—where transparency is the default and neutrality is the mandate.
The Necessity of Litigation
When the State refuses to recognize fundamental rights and converts trust assets to promote political agendas over the "Greatest Permanent Value," we utilize the courts to restore the Sacred Compact of 1859.
Oregon: The Apex Test Case
We have identified Oregon as the "Apex State" for restoration. Oregon led the way in 1859 with its Constitutional Trust; it will now lead the way in its restoration by applying the Mirabelli standard to the nation's most aggressive secrecy infrastructure.
Action Center
Registry and Associational Standing
The Shield of Anonymity Protocol
The CSA utilizes a "Shield of Anonymity" data architecture. By joining our registry, families and educators grant the CSA Associational Standing to represent their interests in federal court without naming individuals in public filings, protecting you from administrative retaliation.
Registry of Heirs (Active Breach)
Goal: Documenting "Coordinated Deception" for Injunction
For parents currently in public schools where secrecy plans are being utilized without active opt-in consent.
Registry of Heirs in Exile
Goal: Quantifying Fiduciary Loss
For families forced out of the trust inheritance (public schools) due to a lack of transparency or non-neutral mandates.
Staff of Conscience Registry
Goal: Activating the Compelled Speech Shield
For educators being compelled by district policy to withhold information from parents or maintain secret dossiers.
The Evidence Locker
Verified Administrative Breaches of the Sacred Trust
Forensic Note
While student privacy laws (FERPA) often shield administrative misconduct from public view, the following case dossiers utilize court records, legislative testimony, and official district policies to document the operational reality of the "Family Wedge" in Oregon.
Centennial: The Pact of Silence
Documents the teacher-led "social engineering" of an entire classroom to exclude parents from a child's life.
The Breach: In the Centennial School District, a teacher facilitated the social transition of a 10-year-old student. The teacher explicitly instructed the student's ten-year-old classmates that the child's parents "couldn't know" and that the other students "couldn't tell their parents, either."
The Infrastructure: Internal records reveal that staff meetings and slideshows were used to train educators on how to hide name/gender changes using the district’s data management system, professionalizing the deception.
Woodburn: The Restroom Pretext
Shows how schools exploit a child's medical vulnerability to insert the "Identity Wedge."
The Breach: At Nellie Muir Elementary (2018), an 8-year-old boy with a digestive condition was pulled from recess for private "identity lessons" after a teacher assumed his bathroom usage indicated he was transgender.
The Harm: A 2019 lawsuit alleged significant emotional distress. Without parental notification or district approval, the teacher delivered 1:1 ideological instruction, causing the child to become fearful of restrooms and school staff.
Legislative Record: Krohn Testimony
A desistance narrative grounded in the 2023 Oregon House Committee on Education records.
The Breach: Jennifer Krohn testified that despite her involvement in her 5th-grade daughter's therapy, staff socially transitioned the girl in secret. Staff misrepresented the child's wishes to other personnel regarding overnight field trip accommodations.
The Outcome: Once removed from the "Affirmation-Only" environment, the child desisted. This record proves that secrecy interferes with a family’s ability to address underlying mental health needs through the Vertical Bond.
The Dylan Parke Warning
"When we allow a state bureaucracy to professionalize the lie—teaching our children that their parents are a threat and their biology is a guess—we are not creating inclusive schools. We are creating a 'Canary in the Coal Mine' for the collapse of the Sovereign Public Trust."
The Identity Incentive
Unintended Consequences of Social Engineering
The "Parent-as-Threat" Fallacy
Social engineers often operate from a historical projection: because some parents in the past were intolerant, all parents are now a potential threat to their child’s "authentic" identity. By institutionalizing this view, they set up systems designed specifically to exclude the family unit.
The Shield of Special Status
In the high-stress environment of modern middle and high schools, children are constantly seeking safety from peer-group bullying. The "Social Transition" offers a powerful incentive: **Instant Protected Category Status.**
By adopting a new identity, a child often gains a "shield" of adult attention and administrative protection that a standard student does not possess. In many documented cases, children have transitioned specifically because they believed the "Special Status" would provide a survival strategy against bullying—a move incentivized by school policy.
The Marketplace of Validation
When a child is granted a "Double Life" (a secret name at school), it creates an intense, exclusive bond between the child and the state-sponsored adult. This creates an artificial scarcity of validation that casts the parent as the enemy of the child's happiness.
This is the ultimate unintended consequence: **the school creates the very 'threat' it claims to protect the child from by destroying the child's trust in their own home.**
Staff of Conscience
The Constitutional Shield for Educators
In the wake of Mirabelli v. Bonta (2026), the legal landscape for school staff has fundamentally shifted. The Supreme Court has established that state-sponsored secrecy violates not only parental rights but also the First Amendment rights of educators. No teacher can be compelled to practice affirmative deception as a condition of employment.
The Compelled Speech Warning
No state official possesses the constitutional authority to prescribe what shall be "orthodox" in politics, identity, or conviction. When a district mandates that a teacher participate in a "Social Transition Plan" without parental notification, it is forcing that teacher to practice **Affirmative Deception**—a standard of conduct that violates professional integrity and constitutional law.
The Garcetti Limit
While employers generally control "official duties" speech, the **Garcetti v. Ceballos (2006)** standard does not grant a district a license to compel **dishonesty**. A directive to use one name with a student and a different name with a parent is a directive to commit fraud. Mirabelli (2026) establishes that such directives are outside the scope of "official duties" and are unconstitutional.
Honorable Government Protections
- Administrative Retaliation: Any teacher who refuses to participate in a secrecy protocol is protected under the Mirabelli standard.
- Fiduciary Limit: A school district cannot use trust assets (the Common School Fund) to pay for the professional infrastructure required to enforce compelled speech.
- Right to Refrain: Educators have a "Fixed Star" right to refrain from speaking narratives that contradict biological reality.
The Whistleblower Receipt Protocol
Shield of Anonymity
"The CSA provides the **Associational Shield** you need to stand your ground. You can challenge these mandates in federal court through our associational standing without being named in the initial public filings."
The 1859 Compact
Structural Integrity of the Sacred Trust
1. The Asset
The "Apple Tree"
The physical Land Grant managed by the State. This is the root of the Sovereign Public Trust, designed to provide perpetual revenue through sustainable stewardship.
2. The Ops
The "School House"
The operational infrastructure funded by the Asset. These are the institutions chartered to provide nonsectarian education for the creation of independent citizens.
3. The Integrity
The "Family"
The stabilizing force. The family retains ultimate authority over the child's moral and ideological formation. Without this leg, the trust collapses into state ownership.
1. The Vertical Bond (The Common School)
Historically, "Common Schools" were not "value-neutral" but Nonsectarian. They were designed to foster Republican Self-Government. The family is a Vertical Structure, connecting the child through blood and parental authority.
2. The Horizontal Allegiance (The Totalitarian Divergence)
Modern policies mirror the Totalitarian Divergence. The goal is to replace vertical family bonds with Horizontal Loyalty to the collective. This turns the school into a re-education center where alignments are fostered in secret.
Global Patterns
Custodial Assumption Analysis
The BIA Parallel: "Boss Indians Around"
We identify a chilling historical parallel in the historical Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA). Their residential school system was designed to "kill the Indian to save the man," stripping children of their vertical loyalty to replace it with state-mandated horizontal alignment.
Global Ideological Boarding Models
The "Family Wedge" architecture mirrors current re-education tactics used in authoritarian regimes. The goal is to ensure ideological formation happens within a state-run infrastructure before family values can take root.
Legal Vault
A Table of Authorities for the OCSA Board and Counsel
Established that the "liberty" protected by the Due Process Clause includes the right of parents to control their children's education.
"The child is not the mere creature of the State; those who nurture him and direct his destiny have the right..."
Barnette prohibits mandated ideological orthodoxy. It prevents officials from prescribing what shall be orthodox in opinion.
Parental notification regarding a child’s social transition is a "clearly established" 14th Amendment right.
Parental Primacy (14A)
Court held systematic exclusion in matters of mental health is unconstitutional.
Educator Protection (1A)
Court signaled secrecy violates teachers' First Amendment rights to free exercise and speech.
The State Audit
Tracking the "Family Wedge" across the Oregon K-12 Spectrum.
ODE 2023: The Secrecy Mandate
The Oregon Department of Education explicitly instructs: "To the extent possible, schools should refrain from revealing information about a student’s gender identity, even to parents... without permission from the student."
The Identity Construction Framework
1. Erasure of Biological Sex
Modern standards move away from "male and female" in favor of "assigned at birth," establishing the State as the final arbiter of reality.
3. Audit Keywords for Parents
The Entry Point (K-3)
ODE mandates the introduction of non-neutral ideological frameworks before basic literacy is achieved.
The Pivot (Grade 5 - Middle School)
Policies require staff to use a child's "asserted" name in class but revert to "legal" name when calling parents.
The Medical Bypass (High School)
The State utilizes trust staff to provide medical referrals without parental notification (ORS 109.640).