Shooshmoo
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Can't edit, but it should say "now moved to SEL and grooming".
Time for some sidewalk chalk
Absher got endorsements from Put Children First Again and Education First Alliance, which bills itself as an organization “fighting for parental rights and against schools radicalizing and sexualizing our children.”
In campaign material, Absher has been critical of masking and keeping children out of school during the pandemic. She has also likened social emotional learning to Marxism. School systems across the country, including the local district, teach an instructional approach known as social emotional learning to teach kids how to develop social skills, manage emotions and find support systems. It’s become a target among some conservative groups.
“Social emotional learning is a vehicle for Marxism,” Absher said in one video.
He knows nothing anywayJohn Snow lost. Y'all failed Forsyth County.
I'd be shocked if Absher does not get in in November. For every Forsyth County resident who is turned off hearing her ignorant message there's someone else energized to go vote for her. Hopefully she is marginalized as the board's right-wing nutjob once she gets there.
She will be the powerless right wing nutjob on the board.
instead of working on important issues she will be hung up on CRT and SEL.
I wouldn't be so sure about that. Our School Board is designed to be pretty conservative.
I know she doesn't really care but I'd love to know how she felt the moment she realized she's just a pawn. A low information dummy that was played by republicans at the worst possible time. Again.
In the summer of 2016, the rural Jefferson County school district was in a dual state of academic and financial emergency.
That gave Republican-appointed state regulators at then-Gov. Rick Scott’s Department of Education enormous power over a school system enrolling only about 800 of the state’s nearly 3 million public school students.
The department engineered an unprecedented private takeover of the Panhandle county’s schools, which officials argued was necessary to ensure the children there finally had access to a quality education after more than a decade of public school failure. They describe themselves as advocates for the “voiceless.”
But the elected superintendent, school board members and others in the small community argue the will of the voters was tossed out to make way for Florida’s first all-charter school district.
The Jefferson County school board — along with a new superintendent, Marianne Arbulu, who had beat Cooksey in the Republican primary and then won the November 2016 general — had a month to decide what to do.
Desperate to avoid closure, the local leaders came back in February 2017 with the only other plan they believed the state board would accept: charter schools.
Tom Grady, a state Board of Education member and former Republican lawmaker, was skeptical.
“When we think of charter schools, … you think of choice,” Grady said. “That's not what we're doing. These students in Jefferson County have no choice.”
After about an hour of discussion, the state board voted to approve Jefferson County’s new way forward: becoming the state’s first all-charter school district. A couple state board members offered a “good luck,” and there was a brief, sparse bout of applause.
A few days later, Stewart wrote a letter to the superintendent stressing the statewide stakes of the charter takeover.
“If Jefferson can maintain its resolve and commitment to success in the years to come,” she wrote, “then not only will the students of Jefferson County benefit, but the county may itself serve as a model for other similar school districts.”
A report by UCLA psychologists and RAND economists has identified an effective way to reduce the number of divorces among lower-income Americans: Raise the minimum wage.
The UCLA–RAND study shows that when states increased their minimum hourly wage by $1, divorce rates declined by 7% to 15% over the next two years among men and women earning low wages — including but not limited to those earning minimum wage.