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Providence Teacher Ramona Bessinger On Biased CRT Curriculum: It’s “very stressful for me as an educator to have to teach … a partial truth”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 18, 2021 20 Comments

"we cannot omit entire segments of U.S., American history and world literature. And certainly we can't stop teaching the Holocaust."...

Union-Linked Coalition Scripts ‘Messaging’ To Counter Parental Pushback Against Critical Race Theory

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 05, 2021 43 Comments

For the past several weeks, mainstream media and K-12 school and teachers union officials have been in a frenzy asserting that Critical Race Theory (CRT) does not really exist outside of legal and higher ed academia, that CRT is not taught in K-12, that parents protesting against CRT are billionaire-backed astroturf, and that opponents can't even define what CRT is.

Rhode Island Mom Involved In Critical Race Public Records Fight And Targeted By NEA Gets High-Powered Legal Help

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 01, 2021 31 Comments

Nicole Solas "Gets Legal Firepower from Goldwater Institute"...

“Parents Will Prevail” – Rhode Island Mom Nicole Solas Reacts To Resignation of Pro-Critical Race School Board Member Who Smeared Her

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 23, 2021 27 Comments

South Kingstown (RI) School Committee Chair Emily Cummiskey resigns. Solas: "I am still owed a public apology and retraction but Cummiskey's resignation sends a new message: parents will prevail. Retaliation against parents seeking information about their child's education will backfire...

CRT Battlefront: Rhode Island School Superintendents’ Plan To Limit Public Records Requests Runs Into Possible ACLU Roadblock

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 21, 2021 12 Comments

I recently posted about a behind-the-scenes effort by the Rhode Island School Superintendents Association (RISSA), together with unions and friendly legislators, to curtail public rights under the RI Access to Public Records Act (APRA), in reaction to voluminous public records requests filed by South Kingstown mom Nicole Solas seeking information about Critical Race and Gender teaching in school.

RI School Superintendents Group: “We all know many of our citizens live in a separate news reality with Fox, Newsmax and their ilk”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 20, 2021 76 Comments

The South Kingstown, Rhode Island, School Committee triggered a national controversy when it threatened to sue local mother Nicole Solas, who has a child enrolled in kindergarten for the fall, alleging Solas was serving too many public information requests regarding Critical Race and Gender efforts in the schools.

Media Panics Over Mounting Opposition to Critical Race Theory

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 15, 2021 55 Comments

The best evidence that the resistance to CRT is gaining and posing a threat to Democrats is that the mainstream media is trying to marginalize and demonize the movement the way it attacked the Tea Party...

Update: Smear of Mom Nicole Solas Was Prepared By Public Relations Firm Hired By South Kingstown (RI) School Committee

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 09, 2021 68 Comments

Emily Cummiskey steps down as Chair of School Committee, blames others for smear of Nicole: "The PR firm delivered me three statements, one for social media, one for Fox news, and one to read at last Wednesday's meeting."...

Parents Are Getting Results Week in Higher Education

Posted by Mike LaChance on June 05, 2021 0 Comments

Your weekly report on campus news....

South Kingstown Mom Nicole Solas: “They smear people who ask them questions, who disagree with them”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 03, 2021 25 Comments

Nicole Solas is the mother whose child is enrolled to enter kindergarten in the South Kingstown, Rhode Island, school district, and has been in the news after the School Committee threatened to sue her for filing a series of public record requests concerning Critical Race and Gender theory in public schools.

South Kingstown (RI) School Committee Votes NOT To Sue Mom Nicole Solas Who Sought CRT Records

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 03, 2021 72 Comments

Nicole Solas is the mother whose child is enrolled to enter kindergarten in the South Kingstown, Rhode Island, school district.

I’m A Mom Seeking Records Of Critical Race and Gender Curriculum, Now The School Committee May Sue To Stop Me (Update)

Posted by Nicole Solas on June 01, 2021 121 Comments

I am a mother in the South Kingstown School District in Rhode Island investigating through public records requests how critical race and gender theories are integrated into lessons, school policies, and contracts. Now the School Committee is considering suing me to stop me.

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