The “1619 Project’s” Nikole Hannah-Jones said of her failure to provide the correct year for the start of the Civil War, “It is what it is.”
U.S. Civil Rights Commissioner Peter Kirsanow informed the principal of a Minnesota high school committed to a “vision of equity” that the school’s stated intention to dismantle “whiteness and other systems of privilege” amounts to a “discriminatory” and “race-obsessed viewpoint.”
The Senate confirmed activist Catherine Lhamon to the post of assistant secretary for the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights.
New research claims to have found that early strict discipline of black and Hispanic children causes an increase in later adult jail time.
The New York Times journalist who led the slavery-focused “1619 Project” praised Cuba during a 2019 interview as the “most equal multi-racial country in our hemisphere,” owing its success in that regard to socialism.
The Zinn Education Project is urging teachers to pledge to instruct students in Critical Race Theory concepts – even if it is banned.
The Texas legislature approved a bill that would ban the teaching of concepts associated with Critical Race Theory and Action Civics.
Biden said he will nominate Obama-era racial and gender equity activist Catherine Lhamon to a key education department civil rights post.
The Biden administration proposed a rule that urges the development of K-12 civics instruction based on Critical Race Theory programs such as the “1619 Project.”
U.S. Civil Rights Commissioner Peter Kirsanow said the “1619 Project” is “one of the most significant attempts to propagandize history.”
The Biden-Sanders “unity” recommendations urge public schools to return to the Obama leniency policy for unacceptable behavior by “children of color.”
A new study affirms what many public policy analysts say is intuitive — that unstable family structure, including chaotic households and single-parent homes, is a primary factor in racial disparities in school behavior and suspensions.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed into law Monday a bill that now bans suspensions for willfully defiant students in grades kindergarten through eight.
Democrat 2020 hopeful Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO) called for a change in the education system during the Democrat debate Wednesday to fix the school-to-prison pipeline.
Six members of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission have recommended to the White House and Congress the continuation of Obama-era race-based school discipline practices that employ leniency for students of color and other minority groups.
The Minneapolis Division of Race and Equity has postponed a program for employees that would have segregated black and white staffers in separate rooms.
Students who take the SAT college entrance exam will now be assigned an “adversity score” to inform schools of their social and economic background, including the crime rate in their neighborhoods and the poverty levels of their high schools, says the College Board.
Peter Kirsanow explained how Obama-era education policies led to racial and ethnic school disciplinary quotas.
A Democrat state senator and a Teamsters president said the dramatic drop in school suspensions in New York City since the Obama-era policy urging more lenient forms of discipline for minority students has led to “chaos” and a lack of “accountability” for dangerous behavior.
Critics of the Obama-era guidance say it tied the hands of teachers and school officials to administer discipline fairly and effectively and forced them to make statistics – which would be viewed favorably by the federal government – the priority.
Peter Kirsanow, a member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, says discussion of an amnesty for illegal aliens should be halted until a wall is secured along the U.S.-Mexico border and major cuts to legal immigration are enacted. In a letter
“Students (and teachers) have reported being fearful of going to school,” adds Kirsanow, who also chairs the board of directors of the Center for New Black Leadership. “One school principal stated unequivocally that the people that are most harmed are the good students who want to learn but are harmed by the chaotic environment.”
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) has denied an invitation to debate White House senior adviser Stephen Miller on the issue of immigration on Tucker Carlson’s primetime Fox News show, an associate producer says.
Peter Kirsanow, a member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, is scolding Republicans in Congress for considering amnesty for illegal aliens despite it likely “disproportionately” harming working-class black Americans.
Peter Kirsanow, a 15-year veteran of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (USCCR), penned a letter to President Donald Trump Tuesday imploring him not to cave to calls for amnesty with major immigration concessions.
The Pennsylvania congressman is a member of Trump’s Presidential Transition Team Executive Committee. Barletta told reporters that the meeting was “great” and that they “had a good conversation.”
Illegal and low-skilled immigration disproportionally harms the job prospects and wages of black Americans, Peter Kirsanow, a commissioner on the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, told a Senate panel Wednesday.
The confluence of a Supreme Court that decides it has the power to legislate, a pro-active politicized bureaucracy at HUD that is betting the court will help it end-run Congress, and a Congress that allows itself to be manipulated by allowing its own independent agency to usurp its legislative function confirms that the federal government in its entirety has now merely become yet another arm of the Democratic Party.
Civil Rights advocate Peter Kirsanow strongly opposes the nomination of Loretta Lynch to replace Eric Holder as Barack Obama’s Attorney General.
