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Nicole Solas Anti-SLAPP Hearing Against Teachers Union – Judge Doubts NEA-RI Ever Had Claim To Prevent Records Release But Reserves Decision

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 01, 2021 6 Comments

Judge states it's pretty clear to her union "not entitled to relief" under public records law to prevent release of records sought by Solas from school district, but reserved decision what that means for dismissing the case against Solas and her claim for anti-SLAPP damages...

RI Teachers Union Is Trying To Get Me Kicked Off Twitter, After Suing Me For Seeking CRT Records

Posted by Nicole Solas on November 30, 2021 23 Comments

This is yet another example of teachers unions attacking parents like me....

Race Hoax? Providence College Blames Graffiti On “White Supremacists.” Because Of Course

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on November 09, 2021 35 Comments

Nothing says "America is racist" like people filling the void of actual racism with fake racism....

Under New Critical Race Curriculum “White People, Historic Figures, All Look Like Buffoons or Aggressors” – Providence (RI) Teacher Ramona Bessinger

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 21, 2021 21 Comments

On Megyn Kelly Podcast: "Not to speak out is to deny students and children that very crucial comprehensive education that they're entitled to as American children."...

Glocester (RI) School Committee To Withhold Dues From State Association In Protest Of Cooperation With DOJ Against Parents

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 20, 2021 17 Comments

Resolution: Since the Rhode Island Association of School Committees "released correspondence indicating RIASC would cooperate with federal law enforcement to potentially adversely engage with our constituents ...

RI Teachers Union Opposing Mom Nicole Solas anti-SLAPP Suit: We didn’t WANT To Sue Her, We Had To Do It

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 19, 2021 19 Comments

NEA-RI says it was forced to sue Solas and her husband in order to sue the school district to prevent release of records. But NEA-RI had no standing to inject itself into the public records process under clear Rhode Island law, so that defense...

Providence Anti-CRT Whistleblower Teacher Ramona Bessinger Hit With Suspension And Transfer

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 18, 2021 26 Comments

Bessinger wants an apology from the district, and that the district address the hostility against her stoked by staff without suspending her without pay and transferring her as punishment for speaking out against the racialized curriculum....

Providence Anti-Critical Race Whistleblower Teacher Ramona Bessinger Taunted In Troubling Schoolyard Incident

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 16, 2021 32 Comments

After an administrative "pre-disciplinary hearing" that the Wall Street Journal has called a "pretext" to punish Bessinger for publicly criticizing the district's Critical Race curriculum, Bessinger found herself isolated and surrounded in a circle by 10-12 male students who were taunting her....

WSJ Editorial: Providence (RI) Schools Seeking “Pretext” To Fire Teacher Ramona Bessinger For Opposing Critical Race Curriculum

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 15, 2021 12 Comments

"Education Horror Show, Continued - A teacher is targeted after she described the baleful effect of critical race theory."...

Harassment Of Providence Anti-Critical Race Whistleblower Teacher Ramona Bessinger Intensifies

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 13, 2021 35 Comments

Taunting and threatening messages were put on Bessinger's classroom whiteboard, and then photos of the messages were tweeted at her, while her "pre-disciplinary" hearing was an aggressive inquisition trying to put words in her mouth....

Judicial Watch Obtains Critical Race Teacher Training Guide For Westerly, Rhode Island

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 10, 2021 19 Comments

Judicial Watch "received a 53-page training document from a whistleblower in the Westerly School District of Rhode Island which details how Westerly Public Schools are using teachers to push critical race theory in classrooms."...

COVID Slamming New England Despite High Vaccination Rate

Posted by Leslie Eastman on October 06, 2021 83 Comments

Study published in European Journal of Epidemiology shows higher vaccine levels are not tied to fewer new Covid cases. Researchers conclude we need to "strike the balance of learning to live with COVID-19"....

Garland Memo Fallout: RI Assoc. of School Committees To “Coordinate” With FBI And Gather Information On Public Meeting “Issues”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 06, 2021 49 Comments

October 5 email to RI school committee members: "RIASC will contact our US Attorney as well as the FBI and coordinate with them on what steps if any, we need to take. In the interim, please apprise me of any issues you have had during...

Ramona Bessinger: I’m A Middle School Teacher Facing Retaliation After Blowing The Whistle On Critical Race Curriculum

Posted by Ramona Bessinger on October 03, 2021 37 Comments

I am a Providence, Rhode Island, public middle school teacher with 22 years experience teaching English at the high school and middle school levels. After blowing the whistle on radicalized and racialized curriculum changes that have increased racial tensions and distorted education, I have been the subject of escalating retaliation, some of which is racially-tinged, from colleagues and administrators.

LOL NEA Teachers Union Declares Victory Over Mom Nicole Solas Despite Court Humiliation

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 28, 2021 27 Comments

National Education Association Rhode Island dropped its emergency injunction request in court over release of Critical Race records, but now pretends "We won!" It still faces Solas' anti-SLAPP compensatory and punitive damage claims for bringing the case in the first place....

UPDATE: Teachers Union v. RI Mom Nicole Solas – Motion for TRO Withdrawn By Union During Court Hearing

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 23, 2021 10 Comments

This morning at 10:30 a.m. is the hearing in Rhode Island Superior Court before Associate Justice Linda Rekas Sloan on the motion of the National Education Association Rhode Island and NEA-South Kingstown (RI) for a Temporary Restraining Order prohibiting the South Kingstown School District and School Committee from releasing records requested by local mom Nicole Solas and her husband Adam Hartman. NEA objects, among other things, to records being released that would reveal which teachers are teaching Critical Race Theory and interactions with the union regarding CRT.

Rhode Island College Now Offering Course on ‘Rhetoric of Toxic Masculinity’

Posted by Mike LaChance on August 21, 2021 6 Comments

“The Man They Wanted Me to Be: Toxic Masculinity and a Crisis of Our Own Making”...

Teachers Union and School District Appear To Be Colluding Against RI Mom Nicole Solas In Lawsuit

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 20, 2021 19 Comments

Unions argue: "because the School Department has not objected to the entry of temporary injunction relief, the Motion should be granted." But for the Court to grant collusive relief over the objection of Solas not only would run counter to RI Supreme Court precedent, it...

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