/PRNewswire/ Elaine E. Katz, MS, CCC-SLP, of Kessler Foundation was named recipient of the Irene Parisi Award by the Brain Alliance of New Jersey (BIANJ) at.
Even as lessons on Black history draw complaints from Republican governors, who argue the instruction is ideological, several blue states are moving in the opposite direction mandating classes in African American, Latino and Puerto Rican studies and setting up a uniquely American division over how we teach our past.
Since 2019, at least four reliably Democratic states - Connecticut, Delaware, Maine and Rhode Island - have passed laws requiring instruction on Black history.