Editor’s note: The submissions are from concerned parents and teachers who highlighted student assignments on white privilege and systemic racism and pressured ‘Equity’ training for staff as examples of the promotion of the controversial ideology in public schools.
Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson in March announced the launch of a task force to address growing concern grew among public school parents about political and cultural indoctrination in the classroom, specifically related to Critical Race Theory.
The task force, called Fairness and Accountability in the Classroom for Teachers and Students , or F.A.C.T.S., is composed of education professionals representing all levels of K-12 including teachers, administrators, and university professors. The group opened a submission portal for concerned parents, teachers, and residents to report examples of possible indoctrination in violation of the Code of Ethics for North Carolina Educators.
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Candidates will have the chance to speak with district leaders, as well as apply and interview at the fair. It could lead to a candidate being hired on the spot.
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Nearly 32% Of CCS Students Are Hispanic. How Is the District Serving Them?
By Hannah McClellan and Victoria Johnson, Chatham News + Record Staff
Sitting in Jordan-Matthews’ auditorium nearly four years ago, Mexican immigrant Guadalupe Tavera remembers thinking, “My God, why don’t I know English?”
Her son, Ervin Martinez, was just about to start 9th grade at J-M, and the school held a meeting to inform parents about its requirements and curricula. While various school staff presented in English, a school interpreter translated the information for Tavera and other Spanish-speaking parents via translation headsets. Even so, Tavera said she didn’t understand the meeting.
There were three panelists for the conversation, and one of them was the
The moderator for the discussion cited a statistic that during the 2018-2019 school year, there were over 2,900 suspensions and that more than half of those were Black students, even though they make up only 18% of the school population. Foust had a pointed response:
“We do an awesome job of suspending Black males, we do an awesome job, and I m being facetious, of putting labels on Black males in special ed, and we do a great job of not putting them in our Academically or Intellectually Gifted (AIG) programs. And so the AIG program, we have schools where there aren t any students of color in them at all. And so we do a great job of isolating African American students, which then leads to suspension. And it all boils down to relationships, Foust said.
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