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Utah’s ‘educational equity’ rule for K-12 schools replaced with anti-DEI language

Tuesday, February 6th, 2024

via The Salt Lake Tribune (Utah)

A Utah administrative rule initially designed to ensure 'educational equity' for all students now explicitly prohibits some equitable practices in K-12 public schools.

Racism, School Board – General

Rep. Jim Kasper announces reelection bid

Tuesday, February 6th, 2024

via InForum (North Dakota)

Kasper serves District 46, which covers southeast Fargo.

Racism

Conservative Nebraska lawmakers push bills that would intertwine religion with public education

Tuesday, February 6th, 2024

via The Associated Press (Arizona)

Conservative lawmakers who want to intertwine religion with school curriculum in Republican-dominated Nebraska have presented several bills to the state Legislature's education committee.

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Column: Governors State Black History Month read-in takes place amid attacks on Black history

Monday, February 5th, 2024

via Chicago Tribune (Illinois)

The National African American Read-In at Governors State takes place from 5:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. on Feb. 26 at Engbretson Hall. The event, among read-ins being held across the country, will featur…

Book Bans, Racism

Central Coast’s new culture war flashpoint: High school sex-ed

Monday, February 5th, 2024

via The Mercury News (California)

Pushback against classes that discuss LGBTQ+ issues is growing, even in progressive bastions like Santa Cruz County.

Racism, Parent Involvement, Sex Education

Francis Howell eyes revised Black history, literature, drops ‘social justice standards’

Monday, February 5th, 2024

via St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Missouri)

After a tumultuous month of student protests, national headlines and community outrage, Francis Howell School District is considering revised curricula for its Black history and Black literature…

Racism, School Board – General

What role does Black History Month play in an America where truth no longer matters?

Sunday, February 4th, 2024

via San Francisco Chronicle (California)

In a modern America where truth seems to have lost its value, Black History Month takes on more meaning.

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Regional myths fueled Betsy Gaines Quammen’s look at “True West”

Sunday, February 4th, 2024

via The Colorado Sun (Colorado)

The author examined how both the pandemic and political polarization, informed by those uniquely western myths, divided the country.

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This Bay Area school district spent $250,000 on ‘Woke Kindergarten.’ Test scores fell even further

Saturday, February 3rd, 2024

via San Francisco Chronicle (California)

This Bay Area school district spent $250,000 on ‘Woke Kindergarten'. Test scores fell even further

School Board – General, Book Bans, Racism

Our stories can’t be erased. They’re part of America’s history that children must know

Saturday, February 3rd, 2024

via Miami Herald (Florida)

Carter Woodson, the second Black man to earn a doctoral degree from Harvard in 1912, is the scholar who launched what would become Black History Month.

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Battle for Alabama libraries reaches Athens

Saturday, February 3rd, 2024

via The Decatur Daily (Alabama)

ATHENS — Residents of Athens and Limestone County sparred over the propriety of library materials for children at an Athens-Limestone County Public Library board meeting this week as a statewide

Racism, Parent Involvement

Commentary: What makes sociology classes a target of political attacks?

Friday, February 2nd, 2024

via Orlando Sentinel (Florida)

Why is sociology a canary in a coal mine for state government?

Racism

Delaware County church-related events: Feb. 2, 2024 edition

Friday, February 2nd, 2024

via Delco Times (Pennsylvania)

Classes, sales, food banks, trips and more activities associated with churches

Racism

Gaskin: Power of Black agency something to celebrate

Friday, February 2nd, 2024

via Boston Herald (Massachusetts)

There is no issue or agenda item important to the Black community that we can't change for the better. That's efficacy, and that's what we need to work on in Boston's Black community.

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How Carter G. Woodson turned February into Black History Month

Thursday, February 1st, 2024

via The Washington Post (Washington)

Carter G. Woodson's classic 'The Mis-Education of the Negro' still resonates in today's charged political debates over how Black history is taught in schools.

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Your guide to the L.A. City Council District 10 race: South L.A., Mid-City, Koreatown

Thursday, February 1st, 2024

via Los Angeles Times (California)

Incumbent Heather Hutt is running for a City Council District 10 seat against challengers Aura Vásquez, Eddie Anderson, Grace Yoo and Reggie Jones-Sawyer.

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She was reprimanded for teaching a book on race. Then she tried again.

Thursday, February 1st, 2024

via The Washington Post (Washington)

South Carolina teacher Mary Wood decided over the summer that she had to teach Ta-Nehis Coates' 'Between the World and Me' again.

School Board – General, Racism

Arizona now offers provocative PragerU videos to schools

Thursday, February 1st, 2024

via Arizona Daily Star (Arizona)

Arizona's schools now have the option of providing lessons that include an animated video of Christopher Columbus saying "being taken as a slave is better than being killed, no? I

Racism

Texas Republicans who defied Gov. Greg Abbott on school vouchers face mounting primary attacks

Wednesday, January 31st, 2024

via The Texas Tribune (Texas)

As promised, the governor is going after members of his own party after some of them tanked his top legislative priority.

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