NEW: DougCo's School Board president said today that Superintendent Corey Wise was fired, in part, for not quashing rumors that the board gutted the equity policy. Today, a PAC backing the conservative majority appeared on FOX News and praised them for gutting the equity policy.
Background: Last month, the newly-elected conservative majority on the DougCo school board recommended changes to an equity policy implemented by the prior progressive majority board. Educators within the district pushed back strongly. 9news.com/article/news/e…
Board President Mike Peterson told KOA Radio today that the equity policy remains "exactly intact." (That's correct. The changes are directed at a future date.) Peterson blamed Superintendent Corey Wise for not defending the board's decision on the equity policy.
"The superintendent could have dispelled those rumors and said 'read the resolution, the policy has not changed,'" Peterson said. "A lot of examples like this where we just didn't feel like we were getting the support to move forward."
DougCo's conservative board majority is backed by The 1776 Project, which opposes the teaching of critical race theory. CRT is not taught in DougCo Schools. Passage below from NBC News: 
Two hours before Peterson's appearance on KOA radio claiming the equity policy was intact and blaming the superintendent for not backing up that claim, the 1776 Project praised the conservative majority for gutting the equity policy.
Hours later, the conservative board majority was celebrated on FOX News' The Ingraham Angle, where host Laura Ingraham described the firing of the superintendent as a victory over the "CRT crowd." Her guest for the segment was the founder of The 1776 PAC.
"The 1776 PAC is working to protect these school board members who are fighting these superintendents and these left-wing activists in the teachers union," Girdursky said on FOX News.
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