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Sara Gregory, The (Norfolk) Virginian-Pilot Nothing has ever ravaged classrooms worse than the COVID-19 virus, but the most impassioned discourse in American education right now has nothing to do with the pandemic. Instead, as the leader of Hampton Roads’ largest school district put it, a panic over lessons on so-called “critical race theory” is dominating the public’s attention. “All this noise is starting to drown out the ‘why’ of our work as educators,” Virginia Beach Superintendent Aaron Spence wrote in a Virginian-Pilot column last weekend. “The boil over this needs to be brought down to a simmer.” As battles flare across Virginia, including in Bedford, Botetourt and Franklin counties in the Roanoke region, here are some answers about what critical race theory is — and what’s behind the political war that has engulfed the nation’s schools.

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