ATLANTA — On a Sunday afternoon in May, dozens of people crowded into a country club in a Cherokee County golf course community to strategize for an upcoming school board
Gwinnett education official: Debate over critical race theory manufactured outrage
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The resolution outlining the teaching of racism in classrooms throughout the state.
GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. - The chairman of the Gwinnett County Board of Education is pushing back against the recent county and state efforts to limit the discussion of race in Georgia classrooms.
In a letter posted on Facebook, Chairman Everton Blair Jr. said that officials pushing to restrict how critical race theory is taught in schools is were manufacturing outrage around a problem that isn t even present, over a concept that most of us haven t even understood.
The Cherokee County School Board voted to ban critical race theory, which has become an issue for some parents and many conservative politicians, from its curriculum last week. But some are still unsure what it is. This week on Georgia Today, we examine why critical race theory has become such a hot political topic with GPB News' Donna Lowry.
Former Georgia 2nd-grade teacher told “Fox & Friends” on Wednesday that critical race theory should not be in classrooms because it is “neo-segregation.”