The conservative movement has united behind a new education agenda: stop critical race theory in schools, provide curriculum transparency for parents, and give families the freedom to choose their own destiny.
This is the way forward for education policy in America.
Under the leadership of @Reihan Salam, Manhattan Institute has led the fight against critical race theory in schools. We've done groundbreaking reporting and my colleague @JamesRCopland has written the gold standard for anti-CRT public policy. manhattan-institute.org/copland-critic…
We've also recently released new model for curriculum transparency. We believe that parents have a fundamental right to know what's being taught to their children—and that schools have a responsibility to make materials easily accessible. media4.manhattan-institute.org/sites/default/…
The parent movement is a powerful new force in American politics. We believe that parents should be at the center of their children's moral and educational development. We will not stop fighting until that is the reality in all fifty states.
Ibram X. Kendi: Critical race theory is not anti-white.
Critical race theorists: Yes, it is.
The critical race theorists like to play language games—"we are against whiteness, not white people"; "we want to 'abolish the white race' as a social construct, not as a physical population"—but their animus is clear to anyone with basic reading comprehension.
In the past year, we have exposed critical race theory to the public using their own words and original source documents. The polling data now indicates 2:1 opposition against CRT, including majorities of Latino and Asian parents.
How left-wing postmodernism works: the word "looting" is criticized more than the act of looting itself. Symbolic interpretation is prioritized over physical reality—all in service of elite political ideology.
San Francisco 2021: Working-class citizens and shopkeepers get robbed, looted, and beaten in the streets. Elite media engages in elaborate racial accounting and linguistic taboos, all to deny a physical reality that is plain to see.
All summer, we saw videos of mentally ill, drug-addicted black men beating elderly Asian-Americans in the streets; now we see mobs of teenagers looting luxury stores.
The Left retreats to language—"white supremacy," "poverty," "root causes"—rather than confront the problem.
LEAKED: CRT cofounder Kimberlé Crenshaw tells NEA president Becky Pringle that "critical race theory traditionally is a law school class," but is "now the huge container for anti-racist work [and] anti-racist education" in K-12 schools—vindicating my reporting over the past year.
This isn't new for Crenshaw. She said the same thing nearly 20 years ago at a critical race theory conference: www2.law.columbia.edu/fagan/courses/…
"Critical race theory" has been a master-signifier for left-wing racialist ideology for the past two decades. Our innovation was to promote the signifier to the public and load it with negative connotations. That's how politics works in a postmodern society. Deal with it.
Seattle Public Schools employs a full-time critical race theorist.
Seattle Public Schools officially endorses "Critical Race Theory" as part of its Black Studies curriculum and is "working to develop a liberatory curriculum for grades K-5 that embeds Black Studies across all subjects."
The Seattle school board does "racial equity training" that explicitly teaches "critical race theory."
BREAKING: House Republicans have obtained whistleblower documents showing that the FBI is using its counterterrorism division to investigate and add "threat tags" to parents—contradicting Attorney General Garland's sworn testimony.
Merrick Garland must resign.
This is the smoking gun. Attorney General Garland provided zero evidence that parents are engaging in credible threats or acts of violence. And yet, he mobilized the FBI Counterterrorism Division to use counterterrorism tools for investigating, tracking, and tagging parents.
This man is a menace to truth, justice, and law. He used the FBI to run interference for the teachers unions and to suppress middle-class American families. The parent movement must not stop until he resigns in disgrace.
YIKES: Here's the father of Scottsdale Unified school board president Jann-Michael Greenburg, secretly taking bodycam footage of parents on school property and saying he hired a "private investigator who is writing down all their [license] plates."
According to press reports, school board president Jann-Michael Greenburg, a 27-year-old man with no children, lives with and shares a computer with his father, Mark Greenburg. Parents have accused the father-son duo of harassing them and photographing their children.
In the video, Mark Greenburg admits that he rides around on his motorcycle with a full helmet and visor in order to covertly take pictures of conservative parents and their children, who had organized a protest against mask mandates and critical race theory.