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EXETER —  The incoming principal of Main Street School has apologized for comments she made in an email calling parents who opposed critical race theory “whackos.” Tonja Neve, current principal of Desert Valley Elementary School in Glendale, Arizona, has received criticism in her home state after the conservative Young America’s Foundation (YAF) obtained emails of hers through a public record request. Critical race theory states there are patterns of systemic racism ingrained in laws and institutions in the United States, continuing to have an unfair effect on Black people and other...

The closures lasted only Monday, Jan. 11. “We’re back!” declared a PUSD Facebook post Tuesday, Jan. 12. With the spread of COVID-19 accelerating, many districts around the West Valley closed classrooms—or kept them closed—with online teaching only after winter break. “Benchmark” metrics on the spread of COVID-19 in communities updated Jan. 7 showed slight improvements in Glendale and Peoria, though ZIP codes in both cities remain “in the red” with substantial spread of coronavirus.  Peoria Unified was one of the few districts to keep classrooms ...