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May 28, 2021 In 2021, not a week goes by without Loudoun County, Virginia making the news as a result of its push to implement critical race theory in its schools. Parents are frustrated and looking for answers, while Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) remains largely silent as this affluent county outside of Washington, D.C. has become ground zero in the fight against critical race theory in schools. The story of how this all happened seems relatively straightforward, but it is in fact a complicated story of gaslighting, big money contracts, and unfairly throwing teachers under the bus. It...

Michael Ciaglo / Special to the Denver Post The Adams 14 school district has a new leadership position this year. It’s one of the results of the reorganization that MGT Consulting has done as it works to improve the district. Jeanette Patterson was already working in Adams 14, in different leadership roles including human resources and academics, when she was tapped to become a director of equity, electives and AVID this year. She started the school year doing a listening tour, which sparked the idea to do a lecture series. So far the district has held three lectures, including one featuri...

Posted: Jan 07, 2021 5:54 PM MT | Last Updated: January 8 Bishop McNally students ended their October 2020 anti-racism walkout with a peaceful sit-in outside the Calgary Police Service's Westwinds headquarters. (Nassima Way/CBC) The Calgary Catholic School District is working with an expert from St. Mary's University to address systemic racism within its jurisdiction. Together, they're implementing an equity framework meant to empower educators and administration to not only have meaningful conversations about race, but address issues of inequality appropriately.  "There's a book that we're ...

Washington Free Beacon Miguel Cardona / YouTube Screenshot December 22, 2020 6:08 PM Joe Biden's likely pick for education secretary helped create a mandated, statewide minority-studies course that "analyze[s] how race, power, and privilege influence group access to citizenship, civil rights, and economic power." Miguel Cardona, the current Connecticut commissioner of education, played a key role in creating the curriculum for Connecticut's required course in African-American, Black, Puerto Rican, and Latino studies. The curriculum supposedly helps students "consider the scope of Afr...

AP Photo/Patrick Semansky Joe Biden’s choice to head up the Education Department is the Connecticut commissioner of education who played a key role in developing a statewide minority-studies course that analyzes “how race, power, and privilege influence group access to citizenship, civil rights, and economic power.” Miguel Cardona based the curriculum on “critical race theory,” which claims America is systemically racist. The choice has pleased left-wing education advocacy groups and teachers’ unions. Hearing Youth Voices, a left-wing activist group that works to integrate “poli...