Tag: critical race theory

Texas Educators Propose Calling Slavery ‘Involuntary Relocation’

INSIDE: Sinemanchin ... Leahy And Garland Surgeries ... J.K. Rowling

By Cristina Cabrera | July 1, 2022 7:57 a.m.

The Other Cancel Culture: How a Public University Is Bowing to a Conservative Crusade

With a rising national profile and donor base and relatively little state funding, Boise State University should be able to resist pressure by the Idaho Legislature. Instead the university, led by a liberal transplant, has repeatedly capitulated.

By Daniel Golden and Kirsten Berg | June 29, 2022 12:35 p.m.

White Parents Rallied To Chase A Black Educator Out Of Town. Then, They Followed Her To The Next One.

Cecelia Lewis was asked to apply for a Georgia school district’s first-ever administrator job devoted to diversity, equity and inclusion. A group of parents — coached by local and national anti-CRT groups — had other plans.

By Nicole Carr | June 16, 2022 2:48 p.m.

Fox Guest Claims Biracial Son Got Critical Race Theory’d Into Not Doing His Chores

By Cristina Cabrera | May 17, 2022 11:05 a.m.

Florida Discovers That 2 + 2 = Critical Race Theory

INSIDE: Wisconsin ... 3 Mass Shootings ... Alex Jones

By Cristina Cabrera | April 18, 2022 7:48 a.m.

Where Things Stand: Legislating Problems Into Existence

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By Nicole Lafond | March 22, 2022 6:45 p.m.

^A GOP memoir.

Indiana’s Republican governor vetoed his state’s GOP-dominated legislature’s bill on Monday that would’ve banned transgender girls from participating in girls schools sports.

Panicked White People Tried To Ban Books In The ’80s, Too — With Jerry Falwell Leading The Way

From secular humanism to Critical Race Theory, the attack lines remain similar.

By Fred L. Pincus | March 7, 2022 3:08 p.m.

Where Things Stand: New Hampshire GOP Tries To Make Teacher Bounty-Hunting Law Even More Dystopian

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By Nicole Lafond | January 31, 2022 6:15 p.m.

Over the summer, New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R) signed a GOP-backed bill into law that mirrors many anti-Critical Race Theory bills that have passed in the last year or are still being considered in Republican states around the U.S. The text of the law, House Bill 2, the “Right to Freedom from Discrimination in Public Workplaces and Education,” is mild in comparison to other red states’ attempts at silencing discussions of issues like systemic racism and modern racial tensions in public schools.

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By Nicole Lafond | January 26, 2022 6:45 p.m.

He should’ve known.

As we know, Virginia’s new Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin is working furiously to make good on his campaign promise to essentially make combatting Republican grievances, real and imagined, the top priority of the Virginia state government. We wrote recently about his reversal of the state’s universal masking policy for schools. He also moved to ban the teaching of “inherently divisive concepts” (read: “Critical Race Theory”) in public schools on Day One.

During an interview with conservative radio host John Fredericks earlier this week, Youngkin announced a new tip line his administration had set up, asking parents to notify the state government with reports of public teachers “behaving objectionably,” aka talking about race and systemic racism in the classroom, concepts that the GOP continues to squeeze beneath the ill-suited label “Critical Race Theory” — an academic framework that’s ruffled the right into hysterics in recent months.

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By Nicole Lafond | January 20, 2022 6:35 p.m.

It is hard to accept when you might actually be the real snowflake.

But that’s the bitter pill Florida Republicans find themselves having to swallow.

The latest news: Florida state Republicans just passed a bill — pushed by Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) — that piles on an already-cemented state policy that bans the teaching of Critical Race Theory, and systemic racism-related issues, in Florida public schools.

This latest bill goes even further. It passed out of the Florida state legislature’s Republican-controlled Senate Education Committee this week by a 6-3 vote, per Orlando Weekly.