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Teachers in Virginia’s largest school district have developed a new “anti-racist” and “culturally responsible” curriculum that will be available to students as early as this fall.
Social studies teachers from Fairfax County collaborated with other Virginia public school teachers to revamp their history curriculum, using a framework from Teaching Tolerance, the educational arm of the liberal nonprofit Southern Poverty Law Center. The new curriculum encourages students to “examine materials, events, and institutions critically attending to power, position, and bias” and will be available for use in 3rd, 4th, 6th, 7th, and 11th-grade classrooms. [Read More]
After the Council chairman took it out of the budget — and then a new amendment was introduced — the D.C. Council votes 8-5 to transfer the school security contract from MPD to DCPS. The $23 million contract will also shrink by ~$4 million https://t.co/Qal0bIsIcG
— Perry Stein (@PerryStein) July 7, 2020
Disloyal Opposition: How the NeverTrump Right Tried―And Failed―To Take Down the President (Amazon)
The election of Donald Trump in 2016 didn’t just shock the country, it jolted the Republican Party and forced an overdue reckoning between rank-and-file Republicans and party leadership. Long-held beliefs promoted by the Republican Party establishment were smashed in real time as Republican voters, and millions of Obama voters especially in the Midwest, rejected the bi-party consensus on illegal immigration, international trade pacts, and losing foreign wars. The GOP―and the conservative movement―was upended by a brash Manhattan mogul who connected with coveted working-class voters in a way no other Republican presidential candidate had in three decades. [Read More]
Virginia’s State Board of Elections approved a filing deadline extension that could allow two Republican congressional nominees to appear on the November ballot in competitive districts after they failed to file paperwork on time during a coronavirus-disrupted primary season.
The board voted 2-1 to extend the deadline for 5th District Republican nominee Bob Good, Del. Nick Freitas, R-Culpeper, a top contender in the GOP’s upcoming 7th District convention, and six other candidates with filing problems. [Read More]
CNN host Don Lemon lectured actor Terry Crews on Monday night about the meaning of the Black Lives Matter movement, insisting during an intense conversation that it’s about police brutality and has nothing to do with Black-on-Black gun violence.
Crews has come under fire for recent tweets noting that he wants to “unite people” regardless of race, creed or ideology, saying he doesn’t want the Black Lives Matter [BLM] movement to morph into “Black Lives Better.” Crews told Lemon that he was issuing a warning that BLM might be going too far, as leaders have made demands and threatened violence if they don’t get what they want. [Read More]
