1/ The Right-Wing Political Machine Is Out to Take Over School Boards by Fanning Fears of Critical Race Theory rightwingwatch.org/post/the-right… Leadership Institute training conservatives to run for school boards to “stop the teaching of #CRT before it destroys the fabric of our nation."
2/ The Leadership Institute, which is offering trainings on taking over school boards, runs a project called Campus Reform, which encourages conservative students to “expose the leftist abuses on your campus.” 
3/ Campus Reform is a project of the Leadership Institute connecting "conservatives into a nationwide conservative network and a lifetime of civic involvement.Almost all significant conservative organizations across America now employ Institute graduates" leadershipinstitute.org/aboutus/
4/ A billionaire-funded website with ties to the far right is trying to “cancel” university professors interc.pt/3uANM3F Campus Reform and its publisher, the Leadership Institute, are siccing armies of trolls on professors across the country.
5/ Graduates of the Leadership Institute include: Mitch McConnell, Karl Rove, Grover Norquist, Ralph Reed and Mike Pence who said "No one has done more to inspire and train young conservatives than Morton Blackwell and the Leadership Institute"
6/ Morton Blackwell, founder and president of The Leadership Institute is on the Board of Governors and the Executive Committee of the Council for National Policy. #CNP #ShadowNetwork
7/ Morton Blackwell was a Special Assistant to President Reagan and in 1981 set up a meeting of the brand new Council for National Policy with Reagan in the White House.
8/ “Campus Reform” Is Funneling #Koch Money to Groom Right-Wing “Journalists” truthout.org/articles/campu… Campus Reform trains conservative students to monitor, surveil and report on the speech and actions of left-leaning professors, students and campus activist groups
Christopher Rufo: “The goal is to have the public read something crazy in the newspaper and immediately think ‘critical race theory.’ We have decodified the term and will recodify it to annex the entire range of cultural constructions that are unpopular with Americans.”
1/ L.I. school board tries to ban #BlackLivesMatter liherald.com/glenhead/stori…
"The push to take over local school boards is part of a long-term strategy of the conservative group #ALEC to reshape American education and society by taking control of local governing bodies."
"The push to take over local school boards is part of a long-term strategy of the conservative group #ALEC to reshape American education and society by taking control of local governing bodies."
2/ The restriction is in response to a couple who complained at the district’s July Board of Education meeting that the videos were biased against conservatives and “no more than a call for revolution, for our young people to protest,” according to Newsday.
3/ A speaker at a July school board meeting charged that the videos had “#BLM all over it, along with #Pride and videos that say if you’re white, you’re basically an oppressor.” facebook.com/SmithtownSchoo… It starts at 26:00👇
4/ See for yourself - You can watch the supposedly offending nine-minute BrainPop Black Lives Matter video at . It starts with a suggestion that "This movie explores a sensitive subject. Please watch this movie with an adult, and take time to discuss it."
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