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The manuals, which were for teachers only, included recommendations for topics like white privilege, systemic racism, and LGBTQ+ identities.

The books discussed white privilege and LGBTQ+ people, so the governor trashed them.

A preschool training manual that included information on racial bias was rejected in Alabama, but antibias awareness and training is important for children to feel safe, researchers say.

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey recently fired a top education official over a manual that she claims encouraged teachers to embrace "woke" ideology.

Gov. Kay Ivey's war on so-called "wokeness" is aimed at anyone who tries to center equity, the Alabama Institute for Social Justice says.

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has replaced her director of early childhood education over the use of a teacher training book that the Republican governor denounced as teaching “woke concepts” because

The Alabama Department of Early Childhood Education secretary resigned after Gov. Kay Ivey banned a pre-K teacher resource book containing what she calls a "woke" agenda.

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has replaced her director of early childhood education over the use of a teacher training book that the Republican governor denounced as teaching “woke concepts” because

Barbara Cooper forced out of job after Alabama governor Kay Ivey calls her use of a teacher training book "divisive."

Gov. Ivey replaced her director of early childhood education over the use of a teacher training book that Ivey said teaches "woke concepts" because of language about inclusion and structural racism.