Santa Barbara Education Foundation Honors Craig Price, Nick Rail with HOPE Awards
The recipients are recognized for their philanthropic efforts and for their years of service dedicated to supporting students
In a screenshot, Mallory Price, a literacy coach at Adams Elementary School, speaks about her father, Craig Price, before presenting him with the Santa Barbara Education Foundation’s HOPE Award on Thursday. By Brooke Holland, Noozhawk Staff Writer | @BT Holland
April 29, 2021
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Two local champions of public education were honored Thursday at the Santa Barbara Education Foundation’s HOPE Awards for their philanthropic efforts and longtime support of students.
Critical Race Theory About to See Its Day in Court
The nation’s current anti-discrimination law does not make discriminatory distinctions promoted by anti-racist Ibram X. Kendi, the Andrew W. Mellon professor in the Humanities at Boston University, and would read Kendi’s proposal as absurd as claiming that there’s a meaningful difference between good theft and bad theft. Pictured: Kendi visits BuzzFeed s AM To DM on March 10, 2020, in New York City. (Photo: Jason Mendez/Getty Images)
As recently as last summer, few people outside academia had heard of critical race theory, whose central claim is that racism, not liberty, is the founding value and guiding vision of American society. Then, President Donald Trump issued an executive order last September banning the teaching of this “malign ideology” to federal employees and federal contractors.
Fri Apr 30, 2021 This is Part 1 of a new 3-part series on the rapidly deteriorating situation in American schools with regard to the teaching of Critical Race Theory (CRT) as part of Ethnic Studies programs. The dangerous effects of CRT ideology already are apparent across U.S. institutions and must be countered immediately and resolutely if we are not to lose this Shining City on a Hill forever to a dark Marxist future. A series of four articles here, here, here, and here, published at this site last year began to lay out the situation with a focus on the Santa Barbara Unified School District in California. This new series will update that focus, as the State of California continues to wrestle with the final form of an Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum. With the Biden Education Department signaling its intent to push Critical Race Theory on America’s schools, however, the issue is nationwide. In mid-April 2021, the Education Department released the text of a proposed n
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As recently as last summer, few people outside academia had heard of critical race theory, whose central claim is that racism, not liberty, is the founding value and guiding vision of American society. Then, President Trump issued an executive order last September banning the teaching of this “malign ideology” to federal employees and federal contractors.
Trump’s ban was blocked by a federal judge in December and immediately revoked by Joe Biden upon occupying the White House in January. Since then, federal agencies and federal contractors have resumed staff training on unconscious bias, microaggressions, systemic racism and white privilege – some of the most common but also most disputed concepts associated with the four-decade-old academic theory.
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A bill that aims to fix loopholes that have allowed cases of charter school fraud in California passed a key Assembly committee Wednesday.
The state Assembly Education Committee voted 5-2 to advance the bill to the Appropriations Committee. The education committee’s only Republican members, Kevin Kiley (R-Rocklin) and Megan Dahle (R-Nevada City), voted no.
Education Committee Chair Patrick O’Donnell (D-Long Beach) has said he introduced AB 1316 to prevent future charter school scandals, including ones like the A3 charter school case, in which operators of the online charter school network manipulated enrollment numbers to fraudulently obtain hundreds of millions of state education dollars. The sweeping bill contains a variety of measures that mostly address online charter school accountability, finance and operations.