In Episode 23, Bill shares the story of a Moms for Liberty Charter School opening and their use of the 1776 Project curriculum. When then watch a PragerU cartoon where Christopher Columbus shrugs his shoulders at slavery.
The #UAW are on #strike against the #BigThree#automakers. #Biden should be roaring his full-throated support for the strike. Doing so would be both just and shrewd. But instead, the #WhiteHouse is waffling...and if recent history is any indication, they might actually come out against the strike.
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"Something deeply un-American is underway in the state of Oklahoma.
In June, Oklahoma’s Statewide Virtual Charter School Board approved the nation’s first religious public charter school. The Archdiocese of Oklahoma City and the Diocese of Tulsa were given permission to open St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School in August 2024."
Comment: privately-run charter schools - free to set their own anti-LGBT+/religious /historical revisionist/anti-critical thinking curricula/agendae - drain traditional schools of kids,resources
Comment: news about of charter schools scattered throughout: see sections 9, 13, 15
f §9: "For historical background on the Christian Right’s assault on the constitutional separation of church and state, see Fred Clarkson’s Eternal Hostility: The Struggle Between Theocracy and Democracy, and Sara Diamond’s Roads to Dominion: Right-Wing Movements and Political Power in the United States."