"In just five years, the conservative majority leading Cypress-Fairbanks ISD’s school board banned books, censored state‑approved textbooks, fired half of the district’s librarians and turned meetings into messy, public meltdowns.
Voters, we’re relieved to say, have seen enough. A decisive pro-public school slate swept the board election, delivering a wave of relief across the state’s third-largest district. "
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/editorials/article/cyfair-isd-harris-county-elections-21140329.php
#Schools #SchoolBoards #Libraries #Censorship #ChristoFascism
#SchoolBoards
L'un des résultats les plus importants et la berezina des républicains dans les "School boards", ces entités qui contrôlent les livres autorisés ou pas dans les établissements scolaires, les tenues autorisées, l'obligation d'afficher les 10 commandements dans toutes les classes...
Les Démocrates ont pris le contrôle de 80% de ces #schoolBoards.
Les mêmes qui ont retiré des étagères tous les ouvrages mentionnant lgbtq et transgenres, éducation de la fierté black ou des autochtones.
MagaWorld est IIII-PPON !
Oh great: David Parker, Take Back Alberta, et al want to make your schools the front line battle ground for the culture wars, even more than they already are. Alberta, make sure you find out who the smart, capable, and progressive candidates are in your district, we can’t let these people get in… can you imagine TBA types on the school board and the #UCP in the Leg at the same time? They will tear apart everything you value about your children and your grandchildren’s schooling: the only reason things aren’t already much worse is because the big school boards have been doing a hero’s job of pushing back against the GovofAB.
"A fight over a school board member's Instagram 'likes' escalates into Nazi name-calling
A group of parents in Redlands, California, is pushing for Candy Olson to resign her role on the school board over racist and antisemitic memes she 'liked' on Instagram. Olson says she never saw the problematic images
(. . .)
Candy Olson — part of the board's conservative-voting majority — has hit 'like' on Instagram carousels of images that include racist and antisemitic memes, according to screenshots collected by a group of parents. More than 1,500 people have written to the board as part of a campaign by a local activist group, Together for Redlands, calling for Olson’s resignation."
A bill that would give Texas parents and school boards significant power over deciding what books are permitted in their kids' public school libraries is now awaiting a final nod from Gov. Greg Abbott.
#BooksLibraries #Education #EducationNews #News #Politics #Texas #BooksInSchools #GregAbbott #Libraries #SchoolBoards #TexasLegislature #TexasPublicSchools
"A Georgia mother was forcibly removed from a school board meeting Tuesday night after saying just one word out of turn.
Lena Kotler, a mother of three, was manhandled by four police officers at a recent City Schools of Decatur Board of Education meeting for speaking out against proposed changes to the district's diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs. Kotler shouted 'Cowards!' at the board members, after which a recording of the meeting shows Board Chair Carmen Sulton asking her to leave.
'I said one word, I have already stated I have no intention of speaking again until public comment,' Kotler said. 'I'm going to sit here, I have offered that if it makes the board feel comfortable you as a security employee are welcome to sit next to me. If I speak again outside of public comment, I will leave. I have the right to be here, I have not used harsh language or threats.'
The officers then approached Kotler, who remained seated, and forcefully lifted her out of her seat before dragging her out of the room."
https://www.advocate.com/news/georgia-mother-removed-school-board
#education #censorship #DEI #CRT #Texas #SchoolBoards
"In 2022, conservative groups celebrated a 'great victory' over 'wokeified' curriculum when the Texas State Board of Education squashed proposed social studies requirements for schools that included teaching kindergartners how Rosa Parks and Cesar Chavez 'advocated for positive change.'
Another win came a year later as the state board rejected several textbooks that some Republicans argued could promote a 'radical environmental agenda' because they linked climate change to human behavior or presented what conservatives perceived to be a negative portrayal of fossil fuels.
By the time the state board approved science and career-focused textbooks for use in Texas classrooms at the end of 2023, it appeared to be comfortably in sync with conservatives who had won control of local school boards across the state in recent years.
But the Republican-led state education board had not gone far enough for the conservative majority on the school board for Texas’ third-largest school district.
At the tail end of a school board meeting in May of last year, Natalie Blasingame, a board member in suburban Houston’s Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District, proposed stripping more than a dozen chapters from five textbooks that had been approved by the state board and were recommended by a district committee of teachers and staffers.
The chapters, Blasingame said, were inappropriate for students because they discussed 'vaccines and polio,' touched on 'topics of depopulation,' had 'an agenda out of the United Nations' and included 'a perspective that humans are bad.'
In a less-publicized move, Blasingame, a former bilingual educator, proposed omitting several chapters from a textbook for aspiring educators titled 'Teaching.' One of those chapters focuses on how to understand and educate diverse learners and states that it 'is up to schools and teachers to help every student feel comfortable, accepted and valued,' and that 'when schools view diversity as a positive force, it can enhance learning and prepare students to work effectively in a diverse society.'"
https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-cypress-fairbanks-removed-textbook-chapters
"Spiritual Warfare," QAnon, Sitting Senator: Inside Wild World of Mike Flynn’s Political Action Committee
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113432224189896483
Frontline: Michael Flynn's Holy War
https://persagen.org/docs/frontline-2022-10-18-michael_flynns_holy_war.html
#ChristianRight #MikeFlynn #MichaelFlynn #PoliticalOperatives #psyops #Islamophobia #conservatism #HolyWar #extremism
#QAnon #RepublicanParty #GOP #MAGA #Trumpism #fascism #Trump2 #disinformation #ConspiracyTheories
#Florida #DeSantis #SchoolBoards #ProudBoys
#Christofascism #transgenocide
Tensions high over private investigators, teacher sick leaves at some Ontario school boards
Some school boards across Ontario are increasing measures to combat alleged sick leave abuse and address rising costs linked to staff absenteeism.
#schoolboards #absenteeism #sickleave #Ontario #Canada #Education #School
https://globalnews.ca/news/10923855/ontario-teacher-sick-leaves/
Desperate for dominance, they will stop at nothing to conquer and oppress their neighbors.
#ChristianNationalism #SeparationOfChurchAndState #SchoolBoards
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/16/her-voice-movement-jenny-donnelly-ziklag-trump
6.8: Fighting the Far Right's Attack on Public Education with Dr Sam Myovitch
Across the USA, the far right candidates have been getting themselves elected to local and county school boards. Their goals include financially choking public schools by diverting government funds toward charter schools, often religious in orientation. Tune in to hear what Dr Sam Myovich, retired history teacher turned school board candidate campaign field coordinator, has to say about what’s at stake, the far right’s deployment of fascist tactics in their fight to destroy public education, and what we ordinary citizens can do to fight back against them, save our schools, and protect our very democracy itself.
#solarpunk #episodes #SolarpunkPresentsPodcast #SeasonSix #PublicEducation #Schools #SchoolBoards #FarRightAgenda #AltRight #Fascism #Policy #Democracy #Education
Youth social media: Why proposed Ontario and federal legislation won’t fix harms related to data exploitation
#Ontario #Canada #SchoolBoards #SocialMedia #PrivacyLaw #YouthMentalHealth #DataExploitation #StudentWellbeing #DigitalPrivacy #Youth #Children
https://the-14.com/youth-social-media-why-proposed-ontario-and-federal-legislation-wont-fix-harms-related-to-data-exploitation/
"Spiritual Warfare," QAnon, Sitting Senator: Inside Wild World of Mike Flynn’s Political Action Committee
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/spiritual-warfare-qanon-and-a-sitting-senator-inside-the-wild-world-of-mike-flynns-political-action-committee
* Leon Benjamin, Coalition of Leaders United
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Virginia%27s_4th_congressional_district_special_election
* Christofascism ramblings, conspiracies ...
#MikeFlynn #MichaelFlynn #conservatism #ChristianRight #Islamophobia #QAnon #MAGA #Trumpism #PoliticalOperatives #disinformation #Florida #DeSantis #SchoolBoards #ProudBoys #LeonBenjamin #CoalitionOfLeadersUnited #Christofascism #GOP #fascism #Trump
Here's how we #saveAmerica for our kids:
Stop funding private #schools with public money.
End the #propertyTax funding model.
Make #civics and critical thinking classes mandatory at every level.
Ensure our kids have enough to eat via school lunch and breakfast programs, and make the resources available to intervene when they need help.
And stop giving #schoolBoards the power to deny our children the #education they need in order to build a thriving #democracy
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Michael Flynn’s Court Testimony Gives Away the Game
https://newrepublic.com/post/187487/michael-flynn-court-testimony-2020-election-lie
* Mike Flynn exposes biggest 2020 election lie in sworn court testimony
Sell the Steal: How Michael Flynn built business & MAGA following out of election denialism
https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/24/politics/michael-flynn-election-denialism-business-maga/index.html
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cod.212039/gov.uscourts.cod.212039.161.8.pdf
#MikeFlynn #MichaelFlynn #conservatism #ChristianRight #Islamophobia #QAnon #MAGA #Trumpism #PoliticalOperatives #disinformation #Florida #DeSantis #SchoolBoards #ProudBoys #ElectoralFraud #ElectionDenial
Swing-state counties hit by Hurricane Helene mostly voted for Trump in 2020
https://www.npr.org/2024/10/09/g-s1-27169/hurricane-helene-georgia-north-carolina-trump-2020
#GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #ExtremeWeather #hurricanes #ClimateDenial #capitalism #FossilFuelsLobby #libertarianism #billionaires #CharlesKoch #WealthTax
#GOP #RepublicanParty #MikeFlynn #MichaelFlynn #conservatism #ChristianRight #Islamophobia #QAnon #MAGA #Trumpism #PoliticalOperatives #disinformation #Florida #DeSantis #SchoolBoards #ProudBoys
[thread] Michael "Mike" Flynn
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Flynn
* Christian Right
* xenophobic, Islamophobic
* QAnon/MAGA/Trumpist political operative
* ex-U.S. Army general
* psy-ops expert
https://persagen.org >>
"michael flynn"
"Michael Flynn's Holy War"
Frontline/transcript: Michael Flynn's Holy War
https://persagen.org/docs/frontline-2022-10-18-michael_flynns_holy_war.html
#MikeFlynn #MichaelFlynn #conservatism #ChristianRight #Islamophobia #QAnon #MAGA #Trumpism #PoliticalOperatives #disinformation #Florida #DeSantis #SchoolBoards #ProudBoys
“To force school board candidates to pick a partisan side in what is already such a hostile and complicated political climate is the worst thing we could do for our students, teachers and educational stakeholders.”
#K12 #SchoolBoards #Florida #education
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/19/lawmakers-teachers-clash-over-upcoming-florida-constitutional-amendment
one of my friends is on the school board, an extra thankless job right now, but I will give her HUGE PROPS for making sure parents can actually have input in decisions.
When they have meetings they need public input on they have ON SITE FREE CHILDCARE.
Because that is the major attendance hurdle for many working parents. If the choice is "feed kids" or "pay babysitter to attend meeting about school pans that won't take effect for two more years" they are always picking the feed kids option.
It doesn't entirely solve the issue but providing free child care and a meal for kids during the meeting gets a lot wider variety of people to attend the meetings.
She recognized a barrier and did best she could to remove it! #government #schoolboards #education #childcare
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