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Deterioration of education

Sunday, September 3rd, 2023

via Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Inc. (Arkansas)

For reasons that may not be too hard to understand, some conservatives seem to be intent on turning their K-12 schools, colleges and universities into plantations for raising a crop of ignorant and unthinking students.

Racism

Corrupt news media majoring in omission

Saturday, September 2nd, 2023

via The Washington Times, LLC (District of Columbia)

Here's a recent Washington Post headline that might help explain why many people distrust the liberal media: 'U.S. soldier in Texas shoots man in Mexico: Cross-border gunfire by National Guard member leaves victim wounded.'

Racism

Hurricane Idalia response gives DeSantis a break from rough news

Saturday, September 2nd, 2023

via The Kansas City Star (Kansas)

ORLANDO, Fla. — In the week before Hurricane Idalia hit Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis had a debate performance that didn't appear to boost his presidential chances and faced a chorus of boos in the wake of a racist murder of three Black people in Jacksonville.

Racism

A Black architect devoted to ‘clean classicism’ forges ahead in her own lane

Friday, September 1st, 2023

via StarTribune (Minnesota)

Haitian native Elizabeth Graziolo has developed a busy practice in high-end residential design while serving as a mentor and role model.

Racism

Florida officials wanted AP African American Studies class to look on the bright side, internal documents reveal

Friday, September 1st, 2023

via Arkansas Times (Arkansas)

Documents reveal Florida education officials who reviewed AP African American Studies curricula pushed for more of a very-fine-people-on-both-sides approach to slavery and its aftermath.

Racism

School administrators admit to using curriculum service Newsela to bypass CRT bans

Friday, September 1st, 2023

via Washington Examiner (District of Columbia)

EXCLUSIVE — A conservative journalism organization that uses undercover tactics has recorded a number of public school administrators around the country admitting to using a curriculum service called Newsela to bypass state bans on critical race theory.

Racism

PAC reported giving $5K to Ryan Walters’ campaign. He didn’t report it

Friday, September 1st, 2023

via The Oklahoman (Oklahoma)

School Board – General, Racism

The radicalization of public education

Friday, September 1st, 2023

via The Gazette (Colorado)

On Tuesday, a baffling scene at The Vanguard charter school in Colorado Springs set social and mainstream media ablaze. A 12-year-old boy named Jaiden had been ousted from class and

Racism

New Texas law allowing chaplains to counsel school kids may draw boards deeper into culture wars

Friday, September 1st, 2023

via Houston Chronicle (Texas)

Law going into effect today may open a new frontier in school board campaigns that have...

Parent Involvement, School Board – General, Racism

Open Forum: Breaking down critical race theory

Friday, September 1st, 2023

via The Winchester Star (Virginia)

This Open Forum is a dialogue with part of Stephen Sawchuk's online article for Education Week, 'What is Critical Race Theory, and Why Is It Under Attack?' CRT is intermittently

Racism

Kansas reporter files federal lawsuit against police chief who raided her newspaper’s office

Friday, September 1st, 2023

via St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Illinois)

One of the reporters who works at the small Kansas newspaper that was raided by authorities last month filed a federal lawsuit against the police chief Wednesday.

LGBTQ+, Book Bans, School Board – General, Racism

The GOP presidential race reaches the classroom as candidates speak out on parents’ rights, school choice

Thursday, August 31st, 2023

via Deseret News (Utah)

GOP presidential candidates have called for more parent involvement in K-12 education

Parent Involvement, Racism, School Board – General

Satisfaction with K-12 education ties all-time low in new poll

Thursday, August 31st, 2023

via Washington Examiner (District of Columbia)

A new poll says the public is overwhelmingly dissatisfied with the quality of K-12 education in the United States.

Racism

This Bucks County man spent $500,000 on the last Pa. school board races. Here’s what we know about his involvement this year.

Thursday, August 31st, 2023

via The Philadelphia Inquirer (Pennsylvania)

The Back to School political action committee Paul Martino started is now branding itself as a conservative super PAC seeking to 'stop the liberal left.'

School Board – General, Racism

Explicit books removed from K-12 school libraries but only after a public reading at school board

Thursday, August 31st, 2023

via The Washington Times, LLC (District of Columbia)

At least 20 books are being removed from libraries in a Florida school district as the result of parents reading out loud objectionable passages from the books they deemed sexually explicit and inappropriate for children at a school board meeting.

Parent Involvement, School Board – General, Racism

St. Charles County parents aim to remove students from lessons with ‘ideological subversion’

Thursday, August 31st, 2023

via St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Illinois)

'Operation Opt-Out' gives parents 'as much knowledge as possible to combat the ideological subversion that is being forced on our children.'

Social Emotional Learning, Racism, School Board – General

Biden’s Department of Education: Segregation is sort of OK

Thursday, August 31st, 2023

via Washington Examiner (District of Columbia)

Last week, the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued guidance telling school districts that segregating students by race is perfectly acceptable, so long as it isn't strictly enforced.

Racism

Bank agrees to settlement in Tulsa ‘redlining’ case

Wednesday, August 30th, 2023

via The Journal Record (Oklahoma)

An Oklahoma-based bank accused of 'redlining' its operations to exclude Black and Hispanic people from getting loans has agreed to settle a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Department of Justice.

Racism

Does social and emotional learning work? Let’s hope not

Wednesday, August 30th, 2023

via Washington Examiner (District of Columbia)

Social and emotional learning (SEL) advocates always insist that their enterprise is 'evidence-based.' There is, in truth, remarkably little rigorous evidence demonstrating SEL's academic benefits. A 2017 Rand Corporation review of the SEL literature found a single study meeting its highest…

Parent Involvement, Racism