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Loudoun County parent Scott Mineo, who runs Parents Against Critical Theory, shares what he's uncovered on 'Fox & Friends.' Loudoun County, Virginia, is planning to allocate more than $6 million for equity and "equity training" as part of its fiscal year 2022 budget, raising questions about how the county is responding to parents' concerns on the issue. A list of questions and answers for the Loudoun Board of Supervisors shows the county responding to a request for details on equity spending. The total is $6,208,842 with the most expensive items being "teacher, english learner," ($2,990...

April 15, 2021 “What do you see?” was the question posed at our “equity” training. I saw, like most of my colleagues, LeBron James and Gisele Bundchen posing together on the cover of Vogue. Our “trainers” claimed this was an example of a subconscious implicit bias. This was surely a modern depiction of King Kong and Fay Wray, they claimed. They claimed I was really seeing a black man portrayed as an aggressive ape. The purpose of this training was not just to reveal implicit bias, but also to accuse our community of systemic racism that needed to be disrupted and dismantled to roo...

The Washington Post via Getty Images Research has consistently demonstrated strong links between people’s health and societal sectors such as employment, community development, education, housing, and transportation. Efforts are underway nationwide to combine expertise and resources across multiple agencies and community partner organizations to help states more effectively address factors such as living environment, income level, and social conditions that often have strong ripple effects on community health outcomes. That mission, however, has become more challenging during the COVID-19 p...

TribLIVE's Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. Pittsburgh will spend $50,000 to provide cultural competency training under a proposal Mayor Bill Peduto’s office introduced Monday. The city and Peduto’s Office of Equity plan to partner with Pittsburgh-based Cultural Humility and Equity Collaborative to create a program for the city’s Department of Public Safety. The idea is to train police, fire and other public safety workers about how to best deal with the city’s immigrant and refugee population, the city said. T...

Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. A public school system in Virginia is spending at least half-a-million dollars on programs designed to counter systemic bias and oppression, the latest of many controversial initiatives connected to critical race theory. West Nova News reported on Friday that Loudoun County Public Schools was paying more than $50,000 to the California-based Equity Collaborative, which says it focuses on uncovering "personal and institutional biases that prevent all people, and especially people of color, from reaching their full...