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A Vermont school has drawn the ire of a parental rights group after it sent fifth-grade students home with a letter informing parents that it would refrain from using gendered terms like "boy" and "girl" during sex education lessons to advance the cause of "equity."
A Vermont school has drawn the ire of a parental rights group after it sent fifth-grade students home with a letter informing parents that it would refrain from using gendered terms like "boy" and "girl" during sex education lessons to advance the cause of "equity."
The Virginia-based Parents Defending Education contends the program is discriminatory, because it allegedly excludes some students from participation on the basis of race. It's not the group's first action taken against a Massachusetts school district.
A map from 1792 that shows parcels that make up the Onondaga Nation territory covers all of Syracuse, Onondaga County and other local towns and villages. Put in historical perspective, it sheds light on illegal treaties that took the land from indigenous people, reducing the reservation size to a small fraction of what it was.
The 1776 Project PAC has been in operation for approximately two weeks. It has not yet tapped any of the school-board candidates it hopes to run in its crusade against the teaching of so-called “critical race theory” in American schools, a cascading source of cultural panic on the right. The group has, nevertheless, raised more than $55,000, its president claims. As in-person school-board meetings return across America, some of these oft-sleepy...