“Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell on Saturday told Attorney General Merrick Garland that parents “absolutely should be telling” local schools what to teach amid a debate over mask and vaccine mandates, the role of racial equity education and transgender rights in schools that has become a flash point ahead of the 2022 midterms.” https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/09/politics/mitch-mcconnell-merrick-garland-what-public-schools-teach-threats/index.html
The letter from the Senate Minority Leader comes in response to a Justice Department effort to address the increase in harassment, intimidation and threats of violence against school board members, teachers and workers in public schools. Earlier this week, Garland directed the FBI and US attorneys’ offices to meet with federal, state and local law enforcement leaders “to discuss strategies for addressing this disturbing trend,” the department said in a news release.
“The law that prompted a school administrator to call for an “opposing” perspective on the Holocaust is causing confusion across Texas” https://www.texastribune.org/2021/10/15/Texas-critical-race-theory-law-confuses-educators/
“…It’s not the first time the Carroll school district in Southlake — the affluent suburb that sits between Fort Worth and Dallas — has made news with its interpretation of the new law, which is an attempt to keep critical race theory, or CRT, an academic discipline usually taught at the university level, out of schools. Critical race theory’s central idea is that racism is not something restricted to individuals. Instead, the theory contends that bias is something embedded in policies and legal systems.”
Paul Martino, the right-wing founder of a Silicon Valley venture fund, is poised to shake up Pennsylvania’s upcoming school board elections by applying the VC model to local politics. The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that Martino claims his group, Back to School PA, has handed out $10,000 to 50 separate PACs in hopes of backing school board candidates who will support in-class learning no matter what happens moving forward with the COVID-19 pandemic. https://www.vice.com/en/article/g5gzej/right-wing-vc-says-hes-using-silicon-valley-mindset-to-fund-school-board-candidates
‘Heinous indoctrination’: Ron DeSantis fundraises off Joe Biden ‘weaponizing’ Justice Department https://floridapolitics.com/archives/463451-weaponizing-doj-desantis/
School Books Become the Focus of the Culture Wars https://www.dcreport.org/2021/10/10/school-books-become-the-focus-of-the-culture-wars/
Here we go, again!
7AM MDT, tomorrow morning, 12th
“Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell on Saturday told Attorney General Merrick Garland that parents “absolutely should be telling” local schools what to teach amid a debate over mask and vaccine mandates, the role of racial equity education and transgender rights in schools that has become a flash point ahead of the 2022 midterms.” https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/09/politics/mitch-mcconnell-merrick-garland-what-public-schools-teach-threats/index.html
The letter from the Senate Minority Leader comes in response to a Justice Department effort to address the increase in harassment, intimidation and threats of violence against school board members, teachers and workers in public schools. Earlier this week, Garland directed the FBI and US attorneys’ offices to meet with federal, state and local law enforcement leaders “to discuss strategies for addressing this disturbing trend,” the department said in a news release.
“Democrats have declared war on ‘school board moms’ https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/12/democrats-school-board-moms/ [opinion by Marc Thiessen, American Enterprise Institute fellow and former chief speechwriter for President George W. Bush]
“Profanity, screaming, threats: Hampton Roads school boards become battleground” https://www.pilotonline.com/news/education/vp-nw-school-board-meetings-20211009-dg3iidzdhfdbfk7rta6tcuvgjy-story.html
“The law that prompted a school administrator to call for an “opposing” perspective on the Holocaust is causing confusion across Texas” https://www.texastribune.org/2021/10/15/Texas-critical-race-theory-law-confuses-educators/
“…It’s not the first time the Carroll school district in Southlake — the affluent suburb that sits between Fort Worth and Dallas — has made news with its interpretation of the new law, which is an attempt to keep critical race theory, or CRT, an academic discipline usually taught at the university level, out of schools. Critical race theory’s central idea is that racism is not something restricted to individuals. Instead, the theory contends that bias is something embedded in policies and legal systems.”
Paul Martino, the right-wing founder of a Silicon Valley venture fund, is poised to shake up Pennsylvania’s upcoming school board elections by applying the VC model to local politics. The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that Martino claims his group, Back to School PA, has handed out $10,000 to 50 separate PACs in hopes of backing school board candidates who will support in-class learning no matter what happens moving forward with the COVID-19 pandemic. https://www.vice.com/en/article/g5gzej/right-wing-vc-says-hes-using-silicon-valley-mindset-to-fund-school-board-candidates