The Children's Trust: Taxpayer Funded Indoctrination

In 2006 The Children's Trust was established in Miami-Dade County with taxpayer funds. It is an independently run group funding kids' programs through a property tax collected in Miami-Dade County. 

"The Children's Trust is a dedicated source of revenue established by voter referendum to improve the lives of children and families in Miami-Dade County by making strategic investments in their future"

Fraud & corruption seemingly go hand-in-hand with any type of taxpayer program. 

The Children's Trust is no exception. 

Back in April of 2015, The Children's Trust was widely criticized for not properly helping the minority communities for which it was established. (The Children's Trust Needs to Better Serve Kids in Miami's Black Community)

"The reality is the trust is not helping many of the poorest kids in Miami-Dade. Thousands of African-American children in Liberty City and Overtown are being largely ignored. Of the 88 groups approved for funding, only 13 are based in African-American neighborhoods. Those organizations account for just $5.1 million of the $25.1 million in after-school and summer care funding the trust is doling out in 2015."

"The Trust started its own political action committee in 2006 to persuade taxpayers to keep it alive. More than $500,000 in campaign funds were paid to a company run by national pollster Sergio Bendixen to buy ads to make sure the public passed the Trust's big budget."

"These days, homeowners pay an average of $45 per year. Yet those homeowners have no say in how the money is spent or who serves on the board. Members are appointed by a bevy of groups and individuals, from the governor to the county commission."

As recently as 2021, The Miami-Dade Commission on Ethic & Public Trust conducted an investigation into The Children's Trust board members & conflict of interest in a contract agreement. 

Some board members are also employed by Miami-Dade County Public Schools. 

(Miami-Dade County Public Schools: Brenda Wilder, RN)

"As to TCT board members Magaly Abrahante, Tiombe Bisa Kendrick-Dunn, Richard Dunn, Dorothy Bendross-Mindingall- they are employees or officers of M-DCPS. M- DCPS is receiving funding through this Resolution."

In 2020, Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office filed charges against former Children’s Trust grant recipient, United Martial Arts Academy, Inc. (UMAA), & its Program Director, Kelly Regalado. The charges were filed after a joint investigation with the Office of the Inspector General (OIG). They were also charged with the third-degree felony of Communications Fraud. In all, they are accused of stealing almost $300,000 from the Children’s Trust via fraudulent billing practices.

So who helped create The Children's Trust? Founding member & former Florida Senator Rene Garcia is a healthcare lobbyist who also describes himself as "an activist for KidCare", a federal-state-funded health insurance program for children. Oddly, Mr. Garcia has no children yet has unlimited ties to the healthcare industry as a lobbyist. Currently, he is Commissioner for Miami-Dade County District 13 & The President of The Miami Republican Party.

Let's take a look at some of the programs that The Children's Trust is promoting with Miami-Dade's taxpayer money.

• Girl Power!

Inspire your daughters — and sons

Transgender topics are promoted to children using taxpayers' funds. Not just on their website, but thru Miami-Dade County Public Schools.

Jazz Jennings Born Florida, 2000
Like lots of little girls, Jazz Jennings loved dressing up in her big sister’s clothes, putting on makeup and playing with dolls. But because she was born a boy on the outside, many people – including her family – didn’t know why. Eventually, they came to understand that Jazz was transgender, meaning that even though she was assigned male at birth, she has always been a girl. And with the support of her family, friends and community, Jazz has been able to grow up as the girl she always knew she was. Others like her haven’t been as fortunate.

CLICK HERE TO READ: Miami-Dade County Public Schools Sexualizing Children With Illegal LGBTQ Curriculum

Radical Marxist/anti-Israel activists Hawa Adam & Kiran Waqar who work with The Students For Justice in “Palestine” (SJP) & Black Lives Matter are also being promoted thru The Children's Trust with taxpayer money. 

While Miami GOP President Rene Garcia speaks out against Black Lives Matter, he has no issues with The Children's Trust promoting this ideology. 

In the statement, Miami GOP Chairman Rene Garcia “vehemently” denounced the Black Lives Matter remarks, calling them “uneducated and egregious.” 

• The Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) 

“Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) is a network of pro-Palestinian student groups across the US which disseminate anti-Israel propaganda often laced with inflammatory and at times combative rhetoric. They are a leading campus organizer of Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaigns against Israel, and specialize in using confrontational tactics such as disrupting student-run pro-Israel events, and constructing mock “apartheid walls” and distributing fake “eviction notices” to dramatize what they consider Israeli abuses of Palestinians.”

• Black Lives Matter, is led by trained Marxists who have aligned themselves with the “Palestine” movement to call for the destruction of America & Israel. 

“Ongoing demonstrations across the United States have reenergized the intersectional solidarity between those protesting anti-Black racism in America and BDS organizations’ demands to “Free Palestine from the [Jordan] River to the [Mediterranean] Sea”– a clarion call to dismantle the State of Israel.”

• Getting Kids Ready for Election Madness

• Civics for Kids

Getting Kids Ready for Election Madness uses political ideology mixed with other promotional material to exploit the critical race theory narrative. 

"The impacts of the 2016 Presidential Election on our children were worrying, according to a study by the Southern Poverty Law Center. Nine of 10 educators said they saw negative impacts on student mood and behavior after the election; eight of 10 reported higher anxiety by marginalized students like immigrants, African-Americans, LGBTQ and Muslims; while half of the respondents said students were targeting each other based on which candidate they supported."

Under Civics for Kids, a list of books being promoted includes authors from "Zinn Education Project".

Howard Zinn was an anti-American propagandist. The Zinn Education Projects urges teachers to pledge to defy any laws that ban teaching that America is systemically racist.

While the Miami-Dade County taxpayers are completely oblivious as to what The Children's Trust is pushing onto our children, it is clearly a politically motivated organization. 

As taxpayers, we should have a say in what programs are being funded, especially for our children. How & why does taxpayer money continue to fund radical indoctrination without anyone being held accountable? I think Mr. Rene Garcia would be the best person to answer this. After all, he helped create & found this organization.