December 26, 2021 School board meetings are often venues for contentious discourse. While common topics of controversy vary over time depending on national and local issues, we saw a significant increase this past year in extremists’ leveraging these meetings to express their beliefs around COVID-19 mandates and state laws banning “Critical Race Theory (CRT)” and “divisive concepts.”
As schools find themselves in the…
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March 20, 2019 The U.S. Department of Education (DoED) recently announced that it will ignore a longstanding requirement of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) limiting federally funded contracts, which provide schools with services such as special education or instruction, to secular vendors. As a result, religious organizations, including houses of worship, are now eligible to be such contractors. This decision is not legally required, will compel taxpayers to fund…