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1/ Many “Parent” Groups Opposing Masks and CRT Are Actually Driven by Dark Money truthout.org/articles/many-… These “parent” groups appear to have joined the decades-long coordinated dark money effort to dismantle public education
2/ such organizations as “Moms for Liberty,” “Parents Defending Education” and the “Independent Women’s Forum” have been featured in right-wing media as “concerned parents” attacking public schools without disclosing their positions in dark money-funded organizations.
3/ “School choice” is rooted in efforts to keep schools racially segregated, and these programs in effect maintain segregation by race, class and disability...donors like Charles Koch, Betsy and Dick DeVos and the Walton family have continued to push school privatization Image
4/ Dark money “parent” groups would have us believe that their talking points represent a consensus view and that the best remedy to public schools’ shortcomings is to funnel tax dollars to privately run alternatives. Image
5/ In 1964, James Baldwin predicted in “A Talk to Teachers” that teaching about race would be met with “the most determined resistance.” Over half a century later, the Trump period has fueled a resurgence in white supremacist and anti-equality forces. Image

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