Plus: Minnesota Proposes to Require Teachers to Use Critical Race Theory. Here’s What Parents Need to Know.
September 1 2022
Good morning from Washington, where the left says parents shouldn’t worry about critical race theory being taught in their children’s schools. Well, Jonathan Butcher writes, check out what they want to do in one state. Jason Snead celebrates the death of another effort to make elections less secure. On the podcast, Virginia Allen talks with a father who isn’t standing by while radical activists push the transgender agenda. Plus: a heat wave roasts China; Twitter protects loony liberals from exposure; and “Problematic Women” evaluates Biden’s press secretary. Five years ago today, a sniper opens fire at a country music festival in Las Vegas, killing 58 and wounding or injuring over 800 more.
Minnesota’s board for teacher licensure proposes changing standards for K-12 teachers to include training on “intersectionality,” one of critical race theory’s central ideas.
“The ayatollah is allowed on Twitter without question, but conservatives who hold up a mirror to the left’s agenda get suspended for ‘misinformation,’” says Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre demonstrates a lack of knowledge of important policy issues and struggles to answer reporters’ questions.