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MASSACHUSETTS SCHOOL DISTRICT SEGREGATES STUDENTS/STAFF BASED ON RACE

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One by one, school districts across the country are being overcome by
a racist madness, and we are doing everything we can to expose this
leftist totalitarian assault on children and teachers. The latest
horror story occurs in Massachusetts.

We received 111 pages
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of
records from Wellesley Public Schools in Massachusetts which confirm
the use of “affinity spaces” that divide students and staff based
on race as a priority and objective of the school district’s
“diversity, equity and inclusion” plan. The school district
also admitted
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that
between September 1, 2020 and May 17, 2021, it created “five
distinct” segregated spaces.

We obtained the records after filing a May 17 Massachusetts Public
Records Law request for records concerning the number of affinity
spaces, the policies regarding their creation and use, the topics
discussed, and any analysis of whether affinity spaces that exclude
certain races are consistent with state and federal law, which would
include the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, the MA Equal
Rights Amendment and/or the MA School Attendance Law.

The Wellesley Public School records
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include a document detailing the school district’s “Equity
Strategic Plan 2020-2025,” which includes a “District Equity by
Design” plan with the stated goal of amplifying student voices by
providing “opportunities for affinity spaces for students with
shared identity.”

In a section of the document titled “Diversity Staffing,” a
stated goal is to “Provide resources for affinity spaces for
specialized populations within the wider Faculty/Staff (ie. ALANA,
Admin Leaders of Color, LGBTQ+, White Educators for Antiracism,
etc.)”

Wellesley Public Schools states
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in
its plan for “Diversity, Equity & Inclusion:” “We will practice
risk-taking and challenge one another to continuously examine systems
of privilege and bias, and work collectively to disrupt and dismantle
inequity in all its forms.”

In an email
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on
March 18 to Director of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Charmie R.
Curry, the day of the so-called “healing space,” a Wellesley High
School fitness & health teacher writes: “I wanted to check first, is
it appropriate for me to go to this healing space?” Curry responds:
“This time, we want to hold the space for Asian and Asian American
students and faculty/staff. I hope this makes sense.”

In an April 12 email
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to
school district colleagues, Curry notes that “Equity Literacy” is
required coursework in the district. Curry writes: “There is still
plenty of time to enroll in the two required courses –
‘Understanding Equity and Inequity’ and ‘Learning to Be a Threat
to Inequity.’ These courses, with a keen focus on helping us to
build/sharpen our structural ideological lenses, are essential to our
ability to address inequities in our community. Our students who are
being impacted by inequities such as racism, homophobia, ableism, etc.
need to be equipped to respond today to their needs in order to
positively impact their experiences.”

In addition, the school district admitted
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that
it does not have any records analyzing whether such segregated spaces
violate the U.S. Constitution, the Massachusetts Constitution or any
other law.

These documents confirm how Wellesley Public Schools segregated
students and staff by race in pursuit of extremist critical race
theory agenda.

Wellesley marks the latest battle in our fight to expose the hard-left
“Critical Race Theory” agenda being pushed nationwide.

In May, we obtained records
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from
Maryland’s Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) which include
documents related to their “Anti-racist system audit” and critical
race theory classes.

The documents reveal that students of “Maryland’s Largest School
District” who attended Thomas Pyle Middle School’s social justice
class were taught that the phrase “Make America Great Again” was
an example of “covert white supremacy.” The phrase is ranked on a
pyramid just below “lynching,” “hate crimes,” “the N-word”
and “racial slurs.” They were also taught that “white
privilege” means being favored by school authorities and having a
positive relationship with the police.

The documents show that Montgomery County Public Schools allocated
over $454,000 for an “Anti-racist system audit” by The
Mid-Atlantic Equity Consortium, a company that claims that their
“expertise in using intersectionality as part of its theory of
change makes us uniquely positioned to conduct the Anti-Racist Audit
and mitigate the root causes of systemic barriers.”

In February, we filed a federal lawsuit
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on
behalf of David Flynn, the father of two Dedham Public School
students, who was removed from his position as head football coach
after exercising his right as a citizen to raise concerns about his
daughter’s seventh-grade history class curriculum being changed to
include biased coursework on politics, race, gender equality, and
diversity. You can watch our video presentation on the Flynn
case here
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This is work is significant but more is coming. Our children are under
assault. Our military is being targeted. Our tax dollars are being
abused and our rights are being attacked as the left pursues their
radical agenda. Judicial Watch has been exposing and litigating over
critical race theory and its progenitors for years – and our efforts
will expand, with your support, to meet the increased threats to our
Republic.

VIRGINIA GIVES ILLEGAL ALIENS TUITION AT PUBLIC COLLEGES, AID FOR
PRIVATE UNIVERSITIES

Here’s a losing idea for taxpayers and the rule of law: Let’s make
it easier for people to live here illegally. Our _Corruption
Chronicles_ blog takes a look
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at such a scheme in Virginia.

Starting this fall Virginia will offer illegal immigrants discounted
in-state tuition at taxpayer-funded colleges as well as financial aid
to attend private universities. This month the state’s governor,
Ralph Northam, signed the new law
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during
a heavily publicized visit to Marymount University, a private
Arlington college with an enrollment of about 3,200.

“These students have grown up in our communities across Virginia,”
the Democrat lawmaker said
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during
the signing. “They’ve attended the same schools as their
classmates and neighbors, they have taken the same tests, they have
played on the same teams, eaten in the same lunchrooms and even gone
to the same dances. They are valued members of our communities, and
they are Virginians in every sense of the word except for immigration
status – something that was chosen for them, not by them, by
families just wanting a better life for their children.”

Virginia has 15 public four-year universities, according to its State
Council of Higher Education
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and dozens of private institutions that will help educate illegal
immigrants on the taxpayer’s dime. While more than a dozen other
states offer illegal aliens discounted tuition at public universities,
Virginia is taking it a step further by also doling out money for
private education. The money will flow through a special program
called Virginia Tuition Assistance Grant
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(TAG)
that annually provides tens of thousands of legal state residents with
grants to attend private institutions of higher learning. To be
eligible, candidates must be a domiciliary resident of Virginia as
defined by the state code, which essentially says individuals shall
establish by “clear and convincing evidence” domicile in the
Commonwealth for a period of at least one year immediately succeeding
the establishment of domiciliary intent. It is not clear what if any
changes will be made to the code so illegal immigrants meet the
criteria.

More than 12,370 undocumented students
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are
enrolled in higher education in Virginia and the state sees 2,000
illegal immigrants graduate high school annually, according to the
Higher Ed Immigration Portal, a platform that tracks and supports
undocumented and international students in the U.S. Additionally,
Virginia has an illegal immigrant population of 265,830, the group’s
figures show. The nonprofit claims that its mission is to build a
diverse movement of partners and stakeholders advocating alongside
immigrant and international students. Its goal is to expand access to
higher education, degree completion, and post-graduate career success.
“The U.S. is home to more than 427,000 undocumented students
enrolled in higher education,” the portal states. “In their
pursuit of higher education, undocumented students actively ready
themselves to fill critical skill shortages and become better
positioned to support their families, communities, and the U.S.
economy.”

At least 19 states offer illegal immigrants discounted tuition
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typically
reserved for legal residents, according to the National Conference of
State Legislatures. Seventeen of them— Arkansas, California,
Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Kansas, Maryland, Minnesota,
Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Texas, Utah, and
Washington—passed laws to offer the perk. In two states—Oklahoma
and Rhode Island—the Board of Regents allows it. In 2013, the
University of Hawaii’s Board of Regents and the University of
Michigan’s Board of Regents adopted similar policies granting
illegal aliens in-state tuition at their school. A year later
Virginia’s attorney general enacted a policy
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giving
in-state tuition to illegal immigrants protected by a controversial
Obama amnesty program known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals
(DACA). At the time more than 8,000 illegal immigrants qualified for
the taxpayer benefit. The attorney general proclaimed that it was the
right thing to do because the illegal immigrants are “Virginians”
and the state “should extend them an opportunity for an affordable
education.” Three states—Arizona, Georgia, and Indiana—have
passed laws prohibiting illegal immigrants from receiving discounted
in-state tuition rates.

Last year Virginia passed a law
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granting
illegal immigrants special driver’s licenses. The measure directs
the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) to provide driver’s
licenses to applicants without a Social Security or taxpayer
identification number if they submit a certified statement that their
information is true. Democrat legislators introduced the law after
promising an influential group known as the Virginia Coalition for
Immigrant Rights that they would “fight hard
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for
immigrant rights, according to a local news report. The same immigrant
rights coalition has long demanded legislation to give illegal aliens
discounted in-state tuition at Virginia public colleges and
universities. One of the lawmakers behind the driver’s license
measure, Senator Jennifer Boysko who represents Fairfax, calls it
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JUDICIAL WATCH SUES HHS FOR INFORMATION ON COVID-19 AND ILLEGAL
IMMIGRATION

The Biden administration’s secrecy on its border crisis includes
stonewalling on the issue of Covid-19 and illegal immigration and
controversial refugee resettlement programs.

That’s why we filed a FOIA lawsuit against the U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services (HHS) for COVID-19 technical guidance
provided to the Office of Refugee Resettlement relating to illegal
aliens released by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and U.S.
Customs and Border Patrol (_Judicial Watch, Inc. v. U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services_
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(No.
1:21-cv-01514)).

We sued after HHS failed to respond to an April 15, 2021, FOIA request
seeking access to:

All technical guidance provided to the Department of Health and Human
Services’ Office of Refugee Resettlement related to the
transmission, testing, mitigation, and/or treatment of COVID-19 for
undocumented immigrants who are in or are released from Department of
Homeland Security and/or Customs and Border Patrol custody.
Our FOIA request was prompted by the April 15 congressional testimony
of Dr. Rochelle Walensky[TF1] , director of the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention and the administrator of the Agency for Toxic
Substances and Disease Registry. In her testimony, Dr. Walensky said:
“The CDC is providing technical assistance to the Office of Refugee
Resettlement for the people who are leaving the DHS [Department of
Homeland Security] and Customs and Border Protection.”

On April 30 we filed a FOIA lawsuit
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against
HHS for records about assaults on and abuse of unaccompanied alien
children in its custody.

JAILED MURDERER WINS OFFICE IN D.C. ELECTION WITH FIVE INMATE
CANDIDATES

Your nation’s capital is controlled by leftist politicians who often
experiment with extremist policies, such as allowing incarcerated
criminals to vote. Our_ Corruption Chronicles_ blog has a report
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on the foreseeable outcome of this contempt for the rule of law:

As the homicide rate hits a record high in Washington D.C. the city
elects a convicted murderer to public office in a unique election
featuring all inmate candidates. The freshly elected public official,
Joel Caston, has been in prison for 26 years and is currently
incarcerated at the District of Columbia Jail. In 1996 Caston was
convicted by a jury of first-degree murder for ambushing and killing a
man in the city’s Anacostia neighborhood. Court records obtained by
Judicial Watch indicate that a 2016 appeal was denied. In
the document
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Caston’s attorneys name the victim, which is not common practice
today. Court records also reveal a “speed loader”—a device used
to rapidly load ammunition into a firearm—was found by police under
Caston’s mattress after the shooting. It contained six rounds of 44
caliber ammunition as well as additional rounds of ammo.

Now Caston is a commissioner on D.C.’s Advisory Neighborhood
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(ANC), which advises
the D.C. Council and other local government entities involving matters
ranging from liquor license applications to public safety.
Commissioners serve two-year terms and are elected in even-numbered
years. The ANC was established to bring “government closer to the
people, and to bring the people closer to government,” according to
its website. Caston was chosen by voters to represent Ward 7, one of
D.C.’s most crime-infested areas. It is represented by Councilman
Vince Gray, an ex-D.C. mayor who was embroiled in a campaign finance
scandal. The Ward 7 ANC seat has never been occupied and D.C.
officials conducted an unprecedented election earlier this month to
fill the post. All five candidates and the majority of voters they
courted are incarcerated at the same prison with Caston, according to
a local news report
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Last year the D.C. Council passed legislation
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allowing
incarcerated convicted felons to vote. Besides D.C. only two
states—Maine and Vermont—let imprisoned criminals cast ballots,
according to the National Conference of State Legislatures
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After the measure was enacted in D.C., a group of commissioners and a
nonprofit called Neighbors for Justice
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launched an effort to fill
the empty ANC seat and pressure the local Department of Corrections to
notify inmates they qualified to run for the post. Neighbors for
Justice was founded in August 2020 by residents near the D.C. prison
who want to support “neighbors at the jail during COVID and
beyond.” The group offered all the felon candidates a forum
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to deliver their
campaign message from their cell clad in orange prison uniforms. In
the promotional campaign videos, Caston is the only candidate who is
not wearing the orange uniform. Instead, he appears in a white
sweatshirt with a logo that reads “credible messenger.” In the
short segment, Caston says “my platform would be used to restore the
dignity of incarcerated people that we would no longer be judged by
our worst mistake and establish equality for both the male and the
female population that has often been overlooked inside this space.”


Caston will be issued a laptop or tablet, an electronic mail account,
and a workspace in the prison where he can dedicate eight hours a day
to his duties as commissioner, the founder of Neighbors for Justice
said in a local newspaper article
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“It’s not just about a historic election, with a first-ever ANC
commissioner who is incarcerated,” said Julie Johnson, the group’s
founder. “It’s about giving a voice and visibility to a population
that is unseen.” In the same story, Caston says that he feels
“presidential” after winning the election. On its website
Neighbors for Justice congratulates Caston, writing that he will serve
as the ward’s inaugural commissioner and confirming that the
murderer received 48 of the 142 votes cast in the “historic
election.” The note proudly announces that “all five candidates in
this election are in residence at the DC jail.”

While they celebrate the election triumph of a convicted murderer,
homicides in D.C. are on pace to shatter records. Last year the rate
hit a 16-year high and in 2021 it is expected to be worse, according
to Metropolitan Police Department data
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The figures
show homicides are already up 13% from last year. A few months ago,
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser declared that gun violence
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is a public health crisis. Weeks later she clumped her city’s
pervasive gun violence with the COVID-19 pandemic, saying this in
a statement
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“Many communities across the nation, including Washington, DC,
continue to be burdened by two simultaneous public health emergencies.
The first is the ongoing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has
hit our Black and Latino communities the hardest. The second is the
gun-related violence that continues to devastate many of those same
communities. Even in 2020, when much of the country shut down for
weeks at a time, deaths from gun violence reached historic levels.”

NEW YORK VOTES AMID CRISIS OF CRIME AND DISORDER

Crime in our nation’s big cities is out of control, and ordinary
citizens are caught between leftist politicians running these cities
and criminals. New York City’s mayoral is showing that public safety
is a concern of both Republican and Democratic voters, as Micah
Morrison, our chief investigative reporter, details
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in his _Investigative Bulletin_.

New Yorkers went to the polls Tuesday amid a spiraling crisis of urban
violence. In a city where Democrats outnumber Republicans six to one,
Tuesday’s primary voting will effectively decide the elections. Up
for grabs are the office of mayor, city comptroller, public advocate,
the majority of the city council, and the powerful office of Manhattan
district attorney.

The candidates felt the heat. Crime and disorder are sharply up in the
city, and the issue has dominated the last months of campaigning. The
numbers tell the story: for May 2021, the overall crime rate rose
twenty-two percent, compared with May 2020, according to NYPD
statistics
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Robberies increased forty-six percent. Assaults increased twenty
percent. Shootings increased seventy-three percent.

The city’s iconic Washington Square Park has become a nightly
battleground
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between
lowlifes and police, with horrified local residents clamoring for more
security. Open drug use and drinking are widespread. On a typical
recent Saturday night, protestors hurled objects at police, a woman
was assaulted, two men were slashed with a razor, and a 77-year-old
cook was hurled through the window of a nearby diner.

The subways—an economic lifeline for the city—have become
a danger zone
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“Minor” crimes such as turnstile-jumping, drinking alcohol, and
public urination are commonplace. Assaults, rapes and murders are up.
Overall, subway crime has jumped ninety-three percent from the
previous year, according to NYPD statistics.

Our friends at the Wall Street Journal remind us
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that
after inheriting a prosperous, safe city from mayors Rudy Giuliani and
Michael Bloomberg, Bill de Blasio squandered the legacy. “Crime and
disorder have returned amid progressive assaults on police and
anti-crime strategies that worked. Bail reform let repeat offenders
free. The mentally ill homeless attack subway riders and pedestrians.
The mayor had his police chief disband the anti-crime unit that
searched for illegal guns, and shooting have soared.”

Crime is up in cities large and small across America. In Miami,
murders are up thirty percent year over year. In Chicago, 294 people
have been murdered as of June 12—that’s twenty-one more than the
same period last year. In Jackson, Mississippi, homicides are up
nearly seventy percent year over year. In Lubbock, Texas, homicides
doubled from 2019 to 2020. In Atlanta, murders, rapes, and assaults
are rising. In Denver, murders are up twenty-three percent and
shootings sixty-two percent.

The New York races were populated mostly by the progressive Left. The
candidates’ platforms continue the policies of the de Blasio years
or take the city even further down the progressive path with plans to
shift funds from the NYPD and empty the jails. A handful of relative
moderates, such as mayoral candidate Eric Adams
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and Manhattan DA
contender Tali Farhadian Weinstein
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made aggressive crime reduction centerpieces of their campaigns.

New York has instituted a program of complex ranked-choice voting
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and absentee
ballots are still to be counted. But preliminary election returns show
Adams in front, with a strong lead over far-left candidate Maya Wiley
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thirty-two percent to twenty-two percent. In the Manhattan DA race,
which does not use ranked voting, center-left candidate Alvin Bragg
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holds
a narrow lead over Farhadian Weinstein, with absentee ballots still to
be counted. Radical progressive candidates in a handful of races
appear to have fended off ranked choice challenges and captured City
Council seats and the comptroller’s office.

Adams—a former cop and former Republican—has caused much
hand-wringing
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among
the New York cognoscenti. Left-wing hopes were high for a successor to
de Blasio, and an Adams victory will be widely interpreted as a
setback for progressives. With ranked-choice still to play out and
absentee ballots to be counted, final results won’t be announced
until July.

Meanwhile, the mayhem continues.
Until next week,






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