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The Linn County Commission met on July 20 with Commissioners Dick King, Glen Murrain, Josh Muck and Clerk Suzan Stephenson present.
Springfield News-Leader At a packed meeting Tuesday in Springfield, opponents of critical race theory called for parents and taxpayers to fight back. The panel of political, faith and civic leaders answered audience questions and offered detailed advice on how to ferret out — and eradicate — the academic concept in public school curriculum, policy and training. They called for cameras in classrooms, organizing school attendance "strikes," speaking up at school board meetings, using social media, supporting school choice options, and obtaining and reviewing all school curriculum. "You hav...
View Comments At a packed meeting Tuesday in Springfield, opponents of critical race theory called for parents and taxpayers to fight back. The panel of political, faith and civic leaders answered audience questions and offered detailed advice on how to ferret out — and eradicate — the academic concept in public school curriculum, policy and training. They called for cameras in classrooms, organizing school attendance "strikes," speaking up at school board meetings, using social media, supporting school choice options, and obtaining and reviewing all school curriculum. "You have to stand...
Springfield News-Leader The Missouri lawmaker who chairs the Senate Education Committee said the state's top education leader ought to lose her job. State Sen. Cindy O'Laughlin called for the ouster of Missouri Education Commissioner Margie Vandeven during a community meeting Tuesday in Springfield about critical race theory. She said Vandeven was appointed by Gov. Mike Parson to run the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, or DESE. “We need a new leader at DESE and the governor can make that happen," O'Laughlin said to the crowd of 150 at the Knights of Columbus hall....