TAMPA, Florida — A pair of parent activists who founded a national grassroots parent organization say the emergence and growth of parent activism in schools is in no small way an answer to the influence of teachers unions.

Tiffany Justice and Tina Descovich, former school board members who are two mothers of school-age children, founded the parent activist organization Moms for Liberty at the end of 2020 as a nationwide outrage over school closures was proving to be the catalyst for a national movement of parent activism.