Rhode Island Tag

Teachers Unions Exposed To Anti-SLAPP Punitive Claim For Suing Mom Nicole Solas Over Critical Race Records

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 10, 2021 39 Comments

The lawsuit by Rhode Island affiliates of the National Education Association against South Kingstown mom Nicole Solas may turn out to be a historic mistake by the teachers unions, exposing them to punitive damages and discovery under the anti-SLAPP statute....

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Unions May Have Major Legal Problem In Lawsuit Against RI Mom Nicole Solas Over Public Records Of Critical Race Teaching

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 09, 2021 23 Comments

Unions suing to stop school district from releasing allegedly non-public information about union members, but a 2004 RI Supreme Court case held "APRA provides neither a right to prevent the release of private information ...

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RI Teachers Union Seeks Emergency Injunction Preventing Release of CRT Records To Mom Nicole Solas (Update)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 05, 2021 28 Comments

What are the unions trying to hide?...

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Teachers Union Sues Mom Nicole Solas To Prevent School District From Releasing Critical Race Teaching Records

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 04, 2021 54 Comments

Nicole Solas is the South Kingstown, Rhode Island, mother who gained national attention when she told her story at Legal Insurrection regarding her stymied efforts to obtain school records regarding teaching of Critical Race and Gender theory, I’m A Mom Seeking Records Of Critical Race and Gender Curriculum, Now The School Committee May Sue To Stop Me.

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R.I. BLM Threatens Sen. Whitehouse: Dump All-White Club or Face Constant Protests

Posted by Mary Chastain on July 29, 2021 133 Comments

“We’ll go to his club, we’ll go to his office, we’ll go to his home, wherever we need to go.”...

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“Children Are Being Weaponized” By Critical Race Curriculum

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 25, 2021 21 Comments

Providence Teacher Ramona Bessinger on Sky News Australia: "it's going to feed the sort of anger and the racial division that is already coming to a boiling point and it's going to make us all quite frankly, very unsafe."...

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In “Blue” Rhode Island, Parents Are Seeing “Red” and Rising-Up Against Critical Race Theory

Posted by Mike Stenhouse on July 24, 2021 41 Comments

For most of the past year, the left has vigorously denied that critical race theory (CRT) was a “real” phenomenon in America’s government-run public school systems. According to their narrative, CRT was “fake” news, nothing more than right-wing propaganda.

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Providence, RI, Hires Roger Williams University to Oversee New Reparations Program

Posted by Mike LaChance on July 19, 2021 4 Comments

"The Boston Globe reports that the university was the only organization to bid for the contract."...

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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."...

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Providence Teachers Union Confirms Affinity Group Segregation, Historical Books Destroyed, Holocaust Education Ended (Ramona Bessinger Update)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 16, 2021 25 Comments

Union president: "So there's people of color in one group and white folks in another group...

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I’m A Middle School Teacher And See How Critical Race Curriculum Is Creating Racial Hostility In School

Posted by Ramona Bessinger on July 13, 2021 193 Comments

I have been a public school teacher for the past 22 years, with the past seven in Providence, Rhode Island.  I have had the honor of serving public school children and their families as an English teacher first at the high school level, and currently at the middle school level.

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Teacher Union in Rhode Island Says it Will Fight Any Attempt to Stop the Teaching of Critical Race Theory

Posted by Mike LaChance on July 10, 2021 7 Comments

"We want all children—regardless of race, ethnicity or ZIP code—to become critical thinkers who hear the truth about our country’s history"...

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‘Rise of the Moors’ Militia Group Arrest Does Not Fit The Media and Government Narrative

Posted by Mike LaChance on July 09, 2021 44 Comments

On the weekend of the 4th, state police in Massachusetts ended up in an hours-long highway standoff with an armed group of men who identify as part of a group called "Rise of the Moors." They claim to be sovereign and above the laws of the United States. The national media is, for the most part, ignoring the story, and certainly is not giving it the obsessive coverage it would have received if the race of the group members was different.

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University of Rhode Island Decides to Keep Campus Mural Despite Complaints About Lack of Diversity

Posted by Mike LaChance on July 04, 2021 1 Comment

"Last year, URI said it received numerous complaints from students who felt there was a lack of diversity"...

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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"...

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Roger Williams University School of Law Will Now Require Course on Race and Law

Posted by Mike LaChance on June 30, 2021 3 Comments

"RWU Law adopted a Strategic Plan for Diversity & Inclusion in 2017."...

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“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...

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Sheldon Whitehouse Was Too Busy ‘Ralphing’ and ‘Boofing’ To Notice His Beach Club Was All White

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 21, 2021 51 Comments

Is it fair? An all-white club is not the same as a whites-only club. But the blowtorch of the Senate doesn't deserve nuance. Whatever it is, go ahead and mock him for this....

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