Former Superintendent Mark Johnson
There was a lot of hope for Catherine Truitt. Though an active member of the Republican Party, she said a lot of the right conciliatory things both during her campaign for state Superintentent of Public Instruction and after getting elected last fall to replace the divisive and way-in-over-his-head Mark Johnson.
Unfortunately, as this morning’s Capitol Broadcasting Company editorial on WRAL.com explains, the pattern has been much less encouraging of late. Her most notable mistake: supporting the dreadful legislative proposal emanating from the General Assembly to micromanage what teachers can and can’t teach around issues of America’s racist history.