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Across the country, educational equity was in vogue. Then it wasn’t.
COLORADO SPRINGS — A racial equity program that began with widespread support and was propelled by George Floyd’s murder all but died on a chilly Wednesday evening in a near-empty school board meeting room.
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Moms For Liberty Named an Extremist Group.
More than two years into a conservative push against teaching about Black history, literature and gender identity in public schools, the Southern Poverty Law Center has concluded that a dozen so-called "parental rights" groups behind the movement are extremist.
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Book Banning
The Central Bucks School District is now considering banning 65 books from its shelves.
All of the 65 challenged books appear on the Book Looks website, a site focused on banning library books with “objectionable” and “sexual” content. A member of Moms for Liberty, a national organization and the most widespread group leading the charge for book bans in the country, created the site and the organization uses it as a resource in its campaigns.
At risk in Pennsylvania schools - books, political talk, LGBTQ policies.
One of Pennsylvania’s largest school districts has become a culture war arena, favoring a parental rights movement to block political correctness and “woke” ideologies by banning books and limiting "political" discussions in classrooms.
Even as Central Bucks School District faces a federal investigation for allegedly creating a “toxic” learning environment for LGBTQ students, other school districts across the state are following its lead.
It was a moment of celebration for an upstart company whose leaders say they are on a mission from God to restore conservative Christian values at all levels of government — especially in public schools.
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Tim Nordin was at home ahead of a school board meeting in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, last spring when he checked his email and found a threatening message from someone with the alias “Kill All Marxist Teachers.”
“I am going to kill you and shoot up your next school-board meeting for promoting the horrific, radical transgender agenda. It’s now time to declare war on you pedos. I am going to kill you and your entire family,” said the email, which was reviewed by VICE News.