Updated, April 3 Soon after parents’ frustrations at the Edgartown School were publicly aired, the top two officials in the down-Island school district will be stepping down. Edgartown School principal Shelley Einbinder announced this week that she will be retiring effective July 1, after five years in the role. Einbinder’s announcement follows the resignation of […]
School officials say that the results from an equity audit of Island schools an exercise used to find gaps in education through surveys will be completed by the summer. There is a question over when and how the final report will be distributed to the public, with some advocating for its public release […]
The Crusade to ‘Mitigate the Projected Whitening’ of Schools
As the
Free Beaconreported, “The rule would allocate federal funding for education contractors who work to ‘improve’ K-12 curriculum by promoting ‘racially, ethnically, culturally, and linguistically responsive teaching and learning practices.’ The rule would also require the Education Department to encourage social studies curricula that teach students about ‘systemic marginalization, biases, inequities, and discriminatory policy and practice in American history.’”
Lest anyone doubt that the proposed rule change is ideologically motivated, it cites the work of the discredited
New York Times’ “1619 Project” (the Biden administration calls it a “landmark” work) whose author, Nikole Hannah-Jones, has recently been peddling lies about the origins of policing.