School Boards
Following Recall, San Francisco School Board Reverses Course
San Francisco voters in February ousted three school board members in a landslide election that proponents hoped would reshape the city’s education policy and politics. Just four months later, the impacts of that vote are emerging in a big way. The recall effort was driven in part by disagreement over how to handle admissions at […]
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San Francisco Voters Recall 3 Board of Education Members
In a recall election fueled by pandemic angst and anger, San Francisco voters ousted three members of the Board of Education on Tuesday, closing a bitter chapter in the city’s politics that was rife with infighting, accusations of racism and a flurry of lawsuits. More than 70 percent of voters supported the recall of each […]
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Facing a Ban, a School District Fights to Keep ‘Indian’ Nickname
Cory and Sarah McMillan of Cambridge, N.Y., recoiled when their 6-year-old daughter came home from her first-grade class one day and mentioned that she and her friend were playing “like animals” in a game they called “Savages.” “Like that,” she said, pointing to the Indian head mascot on her school newsletter. “We said, ‘This isn’t […]
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‘Maus’ Holocaust Novel Removed From Classrooms by School Board
A school board in Tennessee voted unanimously this month to ban “Maus,” a Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel about the Holocaust, from being taught in its classrooms because the book contains material that board members said was inappropriate for students. According to minutes of its meeting, the 10-person board, in McMinn County, Tenn., voted on Jan. […]
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Seven Virginia School Boards Sue Over Governor’s Mask Order
Seven school districts in Virginia sued Gov. Glenn Youngkin on Monday, objecting to his executive order overruling their mask policies and making the wearing of masks optional in public schools. The school districts include the Fairfax County Public Schools, the state’s largest with more than 178,000 students, as well as the school systems in Prince […]
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F.B.I. Set Plan to Track Threats Against School Boards and Teachers
The Justice Department also said that it would begin “a series of additional efforts in the coming days designed to address the rise in criminal conduct directed toward school personnel,” including a task force that would include the U.S. attorneys’ offices, the F.B.I., the criminal division, the national security division and the civil rights division. […]
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