Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt has sued Springfield Public Schools (SPS) for allegedly violating the state’s information transparency law, citing the school district’s unwillingness to provide documents his office requested on behalf of parents concerned about critical race theory. In a complaint (pdf) filed Tuesday, Schmitt alleged that critical race theory has been part of…
Missouri AG Sues Public School District for Refusing to Turn Over Critical Race Training Records
Mississippi Governor Calls for State Legislature to Ban Critical Race Theory From Taxpayer-Funded Schools
Mississippi’s governor announced that he wants the state Legislature to ban critical race theory and related ideologies from taxpayer-funded classrooms. “There has been a push from radical leftists across the nation to teach children a vicious lie: that this country is fundamentally racist and that your skin color makes you inherently racist,” Gov. Tate Reeves,…
Elijah and Critical Race Theory: The Rhyming of History
It was King Solomon, the reputed writer of the book of Ecclesiastes, who observed that there was nothing new under the sun; and so there seems not to be. Perhaps more accurately, Mark Twain expressed it this way: “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.” Some sort of echo chamber exists whereby the events of the past…
Arizona School Board Elects New President Over Alleged Dossier on Parents
Scottsdale, Arizona’s governing school board has voted to replace Jann-Michael Greenburg as president over an online “dossier” that he and his father allegedly had kept on parents critical of school board policies. During a Nov. 15 emergency session, the Scottsdale Unified District No. 48 Governing Board voted 4–1 to appoint Patty Beckman to serve as…
New Jersey Introduces Law to Ban Teaching Critical Race Theory in Public Schools
Two state Republican senators introduced legislation on Tuesday that would prohibit teaching critical race theory in New Jersey public schools. Sens. Michael Testa and Joe Pennacchio introduced a bill that would prevent critical race theory (CRT) from being taught in New Jersey public schools, according to a statement. The bill would also prohibit public school…
National Educators Group Pushes for English Teachers to Be Trained in ‘Anti-Racism’
Educators pursuing a career as a middle or high school English teacher should be “trained in anti-racism,” according to a newly released set of teaching standards created by National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). The NCTE last revised its standards for educators preparing to teach English language arts (ELA) in grades 7 to 12…
North Dakota Bans Critical Race Theory in Public Schools, Requires ‘Factual, Objective’ Curriculum
North Dakota has become the latest state to ban critical race theory (CRT) from being taught in public school classrooms. On Friday Gov. Doug Burgum, a Republican, signed into law House Bill 1508, a day after the one-page bill overwhelmingly cleared both chambers of the Republican-majority state legislature. Proponents of the ban said this legislative…
Dr. Jason Hill on Reparations, White Guilt, and the ‘Age of Post-Oppression’
“I’m going to be a little bit radical here and say there is no racial reckoning to be had … I don’t know what further reckonings would look like short of tearing this country apart,” says Dr. Jason Hill, a professor of philosophy at DePaul University and author of “What Do White Americans Owe Black…
South Carolina Governor Calls for Investigation Into Pornographic Material Found in School Libraries
South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster has called for an investigation into pornographic material in public school libraries in the state. “It has come to my attention that public schools in South Carolina may be providing students with access—whether in school libraries, electronic databases, or both—to completely inappropriate books and materials, including sexually explicit and obscene…
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Secret Behind Anti-CRT School Board Wins; Is Build Back Better Mass Amnesty?
It was true for Virginia’s gubernatorial race and for many school board elections across the country this month—a key issue was the debate over teaching critical race theory (CRT) in K-12 classrooms. What’s less known is the secret sauce behind why many anti-CRT candidates won at the local level. Ryan Girdusky, who founded the “1776…