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Portland Charter Commission selects leaders
Michael Kebede, a policy counsel with the American Civil Liberties Union of Maine, and Shay Stewart-Bouley, a writer and executive director of Community Change Inc., a Boston-based anti-racist nonprofit, were elected chair and vice chair, respectively.
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During its first meeting, the Portland Charter Commission elected Michael Kebede and Shay Stewart-Bouley to lead a yearlong review of city government, signaling that criminal justice and racial equity would be among the issues the group will seek to address over the coming year.
Kebede, a policy counsel with the American Civil Liberties Union of Maine, and Stewart-Bouley, a writer and executive director of Community Change Inc., a Boston-based anti-racism nonprofit, were each elected Monday by 9-3 votes as chair and vice chair, respectively. They each won their leadership positions over Peter Eglinton, a former school board chair and deputy
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What makes this bill all the more perplexing is that it passed the Senate by way of unanimous consent right in the middle of the GOP’s efforts to ban schools from teaching students about the racism woven throughout the country’s history.
In recent months, conservative media outlets and Republican lawmakers have taken aim at “critical race theory,” which, by the way, is a method of legal analysis, so unless all of these elementary school kids are also prepping for the Bar exam, I don’t know why Republicans think they’re going to be subjected to it.