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Listen to this article RENSSELAER â The annual Rensselaer Central High School Art Show received a little extra help this year, as a collaboration was created to help promote the show. The collaboration was a work of art between the art students, who are supplying the artwork, and the marketing students, who are helping to promote the show. Rensselaer Central High School business teacher Stephanie Dobson and the marketing class worked with art teacher Kelley Spurgeon to help promote the annual show that features work from all the art students. Dobson said advertising was one of the topics the students recently learned about so as a hands-on project the students helped promote the sale of the outdoor furniture made by Michael Goadâs class. Helping promote the art show is the second project the students could complete. ....
The Tennessee General Assembly has advanced a proposed ban on the teaching of critical race theory. The bill was passed at the end of Wednesday s legislative session. It calls for withholding funding from public schools that discuss White privilege with their students, according to The Tennessean newspaper of Nashville. State Sen. Brian Kelsey, a Republican from Memphis, argued that teaching the theory would be harmful to our students. Critical Race Theory teaches that American democracy is a lie. It teaches that the rule of law does not exist & is instead a series of power struggles among racial groups. It is harmful to our students & is antithetical to everything we stand for as Americans & as Tennesseans, Kelsey tweeted Wednesday. ....
By FOX 17 May 6, 2021 NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WZTV) Tennessee lawmakers have passed a bill that would withhold funding from schools when students are taught about systemic racism and white privilege. HB 0580/SB 0623 has officially been cleared through the General Assembly. It passed after a conference committee which discussed the description what critical race theory is, a spokesman confirms. While most of the majority-white GOP caucuses in the House and Senate supported the effort, Black Democratic lawmakers warned the bill would make schools fearful to teach about the United States’ history on race. “Critical race theory is rooted in critical theory, which argues that social problems are created and influenced by societal structures and cultural assumptions,” said state Sen. Katrina Robinson, a Black Democrat from Memphis. “How ironic that a body made up of a simple majority of white privileged men can determine whether even my grandchildren can see refl ....
May 5, 2021 Tennessee teachers will be restricted from discussing systemic racism with their students or lose state funding if legislation approved Wednesday becomes law. Subscribe The Senate voted 25-7 for the ban one day after the House easily passed the bill along partisan lines in Tennessee s GOP-controlled legislature, following several days of fiery debate. A spokeswoman for Republican Gov. Bill Lee did not immediately respond when asked if he would sign the bill into law. Subscribe Tennessee becomes the latest state on the verge of limiting the depth of classroom discussions about inequality and concepts such as white privilege as part of a conservative backlash to America s reckoning over racism. ....
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) Tennessee lawmakers on Wednesday adjourned for the year after spending their final moments slashing how long the unemployed can receive benefits, and banning certain concepts on race and racism from being taught in schools. ....