Tag: critical race theory

Group’s Audit of Florida School District Reveals Officials Often ‘Don’t Know’ Own Curriculum

By failing to properly follow state law, its own founding charter, and sponsoring the school district’s stated policy, a Central Florida high school had to deny about 40 students college credits they had worked a semester to earn. What happened in Lake Wales Charter Schools isn’t evidence of any grand scheme by local administrators to…


Biden Admin Quietly Pushing Anti-Charter Policies, School Choice Advocates Warn

Amid nationwide calls for giving parents more choice in their children’s education, the Biden administration has quietly proposed changes that critics say will make it harder for new public charter schools to open and for existing ones to survive. On March 14, the U.S. Department of Education released a 14-page regulatory proposal regarding the priorities,…


Similarities Between CRT and Prison Culture Help Predict Where CRT Can Lead: Christopher Rufo

While working on his documentary, Christopher Rufo realized that the ideology of prison gangs that led to racial segregation in prisons holds similarities to the critical race theory (CRT) being promoted in society. Rufo, a writer, filmmaker, and researcher, noticed that although the phenomenon of prison gangs and the development of CRT are different and…


Critical Race Theory, Prison Culture Similarities Help Predict Where CRT Can Lead: Christopher Rufo

Writer, filmmaker, and researcher Christopher Rufo realized while working on a documentary that the ideology of prison gangs that leads to racial segregation in prisons holds similarities to the critical race theory (CRT) being promoted in society. Rufo noticed that although the phenomenon of prison gangs and the development of CRT are different and disparate,…


Trump Budget Official Calls Biden’s Spending Proposal ‘Atrocious’

Russ Vought, a critical race theory (CRT) opponent who led the White House Office of Management and Budget under Trump, told The Epoch Times on Thursday that the amount of spending in President Joe Biden’s proposed 2023 budget is “atrocious.” Vought, who currently heads the anti-CRT organization Center for Renewing America, made the comments at…


Washington State School District Adopts ‘Culturally Responsive’ Student Discipline Policy

A school district in Washington state has adopted what it calls a “culturally responsive” student discipline policy that takes into account race and ethnic background in doling out punishment. On March 14, the policy was passed by a vote of 3-2 by the Clover Park School District Board of Directors in Lakewood.  The board’s two…


Disney Executives Outline ‘Gay Agenda,’ Push for More Queer Characters in Internal Meeting

Executives and producers at the Walt Disney Company said during a recent internal meeting that there will be a renewed effort to make leading characters in films and shows gay or transgender, with one talking about how she has been working to enact a “not-at-all-secret gay agenda” in several programs. Karey Burke, president of Disney General Entertainment…


Liberation of Education: Providing Innovative Alternatives to Public Schools

As impatience with left-wing ideology increases and more parents are removing their children from the public school system, a new movement focused on education, entrepreneurship, and free-market solutions is providing parents with innovative alternatives. According to its website, Liberation of Education is “a movement to provide parents with a wide array of actionable educational choices which lead children…


How Wokeism and CRT Became Socialist Religion: Pastor

Wokeism has taken the form of religion that has adopted various beliefs mixed with Marxism and critical race theory (CRT), said pastor Lucas Miles. Critical race theory, an offshoot of a neo-Marxist branch of thought, was influenced by liberation theology and black liberation theology, he explained. Marx’s works were inspired by Georg Wilhelm Hegel, a…


California School Board to Vote to Ban Critical Race Theory

FULLERTON, Calif.—The Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified school board held a special meeting on March 23 to discuss a resolution to halt the teaching of Critical Race Theory (CRT). Trustee Leandra Blades, who has been advocating for the ban, calls CRT—a theory that divides society into oppressors and oppressed based on race—a “divisive theory” that pins races…