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Heather Fleming has also led volunteers to Jefferson City to oppose bills targeting the ways race, gender, and history are taught in Missouri classrooms.
Heather Fleming has also led volunteers to Jefferson City to oppose bills targeting the ways race, gender and history are taught in Missouri classrooms.
The program will distribute free copies of "The Bluest Eye" in response to its removal from Wentzville School District libraries.
Galen Bacharier and Roger McKinney USA TODAY NETWORK JEFFERSON CITY — Missouri is surveying school districts around the state on whether they teach critical race theory, state education officials said Monday, as a legislative committee held a contentious initial hearing on the topic. Michael Harris, chief of governmental relations for the state's Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, told the committee that the department asked districts around the state whether their curriculum includes the academic concept or The 1619 Project. A department spokesperson said Monday that th...