RALEIGH, N.C. New high school social studies documents for North Carolina students were changed because of concerns they focused too much on the perspectives of Black people compared to other minority and marginalized groups. The state Department of Public Instruction is working on documents that will help teachers use new K-12 social studies standards that focus more on racism, .
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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.
North Carolina House passes bill to limit how racism is taught; one Democrat calls it ‘book burning’
Updated May 12, 2021;
Posted May 12, 2021
North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson speaks during a press conference in Raleigh on Tuesday, March 16, 2021. Robinson talked about the creation of a task force to address complaints about indoctrination in public schools. (Ethan Hyman/The News & Observer/TNS)TNS
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RALEIGH, N.C. North Carolina Republican lawmakers are attempting to put new rules on public school lessons about race and history, part of a growing distrust about what students are being taught.
The North Carolina House voted 65-48 on Wednesday to pass a bill that prohibits schools from promoting concepts such as that the U.S. was created to oppress people or that people are inherently racist or sexist. Supporters say the bill, which calls for keeping people from being made to feel guilty due to their race or the past actions of people of their race, will