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Biden admin gives millions to NC school districts for DEI, restorative justice

A new investigative report from the nonprofit advocacy group Parents Defending Education finds the Biden administration’s Justice Department issued DEI, restorative justice, and social emotional learning grants to four North Carolina school districts over the course of his administration. The total allocation of approximately $2.5 million went to the Ashe County School District, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of...

David N. Bass
Opinion

A closer look at Marxist ideology and critical race theory

U.S. Rep. Dan Bishop, R-NC, made headlines last week by introducing a resolution condemning critical race theory (CRT) and acknowledging its roots in Marxism.  The Daily Caller quoted Bishop saying, “CRT proponents cannot be allowed to conceal the Marxian foundations of their racist ideology.” Bishop continues, “This resolution allows Congress to do what has always been essential...

Joshua Peters
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Scholar: The fight against CRT is one of national survival

Cornell Law School professor William A. Jacobson shared his experience at Harvard Law School in the early 1980s when the push to begin identifying people “by ethnic and racial groups as opposed to individual” began to take shape. The more politically moderate students graduated and went into business law, Jacobson noted, while the more radical students who studied critical legal theory went into academia.

David N. Bass

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Fetid Lilies

In sonnet ninety-four, Shakespeare turns his brilliance to youth and its fickleness, ending the sonnet with one of the most memorable of his couplets: “For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds/Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.” This couplet came to mind as  the current controversy regarding Critical Race Theory (CRT) swirls madly...

Mark Herring
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N.C. parents say public schools usurping their authority as parents 

Parents in North Carolina report feeling increasingly concerned about the public schools’ efforts to usurp their parental authority on topics such as mask and COVID-19 vaccine mandates to the teaching of controversial race and gender theories.  The debate heated up over the summer as lawmakers in the General Assembly passed an anti-indoctrination bill — House Bill 324, Ensuring...

David N. Bass
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