Some school board members would like to put the brakes on Moore County Schoolsâ implementation of new state guidelines for teaching social studies.
Effective this fall, North Carolinaâs standard course of study will more actively incorporate the contributions and experiences of women and minorities throughout history. The stateâs standards for social studies have been rewritten at each level from kindergarten through eighth grade, and for each high school social studies course.
A team of about two dozen Moore County Schools teachers is currently combing through the new standards. Their goal is to develop a framework for how teachers in each grade and class might structure their teaching in accordance with the new guidelines.
Year after year, education advocates in Moore County have cried out in support of fully funding the budget request of the Moore County Board of Education. There have been petitions.
All three of Moore County’s high schools will recognize valedictorians during this week’s graduation ceremonies, but it will likely be for the last time.
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The Moore County Board of Education wonât adopt a ban on Critical Race Theory, based on a vote on Monday night that was almost as divided as the 40 people who addressed the board on the subject.
The school board heard input from a total of 47 speakers over more than two hours. Most of them offered feedback regarding a policy proposed by board member Robert Levy, which would have stipulated that no curriculum taught in Moore County Schools be based on Critical Race Theory.
Levy proposed this policy in conjunction with national backlash against the long-established legal and academic movement, which has emerged locally surrounding the implementation of North Carolinaâs new K-12 social studies standards.