Woke Math Pushback

Penna Dexter Wall Street Journal columnist William McGurn writes: “If the land of woke has a capital, it’s San Francisco.” But he writes, the city has now become “ground zero for a revolt by unwoke moms and dads.” An effort to recall three San Francisco school board members is well on its way to getting enough signatures to force the…

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Making You Pay

Penna Dexter For the first time in more than 40 years, the President’s proposed federal budget calls for taxpayers to directly fund abortion. This is being done chiefly by eliminating the Hyde Amendment from spending proposals. The Hyde Amendment stipulates that Medicaid cannot pay for abortions and has been attached to federal spending legislation since 1976. This protection has been bipartisan. There have…

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Selling Out Girls

Penna Dexter On day one of his administration, President Biden issued an executive order outlining planned steps to prohibit discrimination based on gender identity or sexual orientation. The order requires all government agency heads to adapt their policies accordingly. The president’s order signaled the administration’s take on the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2020 decision in Bostock v. Clayton County.   Title VII…

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Recognizing Critical Race Theory

Penna Dexter Parents across the nation are learning that their K-12 children are being indoctrinated in critical race theory and some are responding to protect their kids. Teachers and administrators have been known to deflect questions from parents about CRT — explaining that, ‘yes of course, we teach history, we teach the Civil War and the civil rights movement.’ Some…

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NEA Fights Back

Penna Dexter As we entered 2021 many communities, in an effort to expedite the reopening of schools, began to prioritize K-12 educators to receive the coronavirus vaccine. Yet teachers’ unions in some of the nation’s most populous cities still argued for keeping schools closed. Many schools capitulated, promising instead to reopen for in-person instruction in the fall. Parents, doing their…

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School Board Members

Penna Dexter Parents across America are getting wise to the indoctrination that’s been taking place in their neighborhood schools through the teaching of critical race theory. Many schools have adopted the “1619 Project” which portrays America as a fundamentally racist nation and makes slavery the central story of American history. As of January 2021, this curriculum was being taught in…

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Birthing People

Penna Dexter An absurd phrase is used in the White House’s 2021 budget proposal: “birthing people.” It appears in a section dealing with funding to reduce maternal mortality, which is worse among black mothers. Senators tried to get clarification at a hearing. Oklahoma Senator James Lankford asked Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, “Can you help me get a…

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Inclusive Math

Penna Dexter The California State Board of Education has developed a curriculum that, if approved, is supposed to help attract “Black, Latinx, and Multilingual” people to mathematics. Here’s the plan: First, teachers will be asked to reconsider “preconceived biases” like the one that says there’s “one right answer” to math problems. Instead, the teacher is to lead the class in…

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Pride Month

Penna Dexter June used to be Gay Pride Month. Now it’s LGBTQ Pride Month, or simply Pride Month. Really though, there’s no special month needed. The “T” — the transgender push — is marketed to kids and young adults all year long. However, every June we see an uptick, and this month is no exception as iconic corporations roll out…

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Bill Barr’s Speech

Penna Dexter I recently attended a breakfast sponsored by Alliance Defending Freedom. Attorney General William Barr was the speaker. The room was filled with prominent conservatives of a mind to turn the tide on the Left’s takeover of the federal government and culture. He could have talked about anything: politics, woke law enforcement, corporate bullying. He chose education. The former Attorney…

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Reviewing Abortion Limits

Penna Dexter The US Supreme Court has agreed to review a Mississippi law that would ban nearly all abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy.  Legal experts on both sides of the abortion issue have indicated that the case presents an opportunity for the court to modify — perhaps even to overturn — Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey….

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