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One school district’s ‘playbook’ for undoing far-right education policies

The Hechinger Report

In 2021, a Bucks County venture capitalist and longtime Republican funder concerned about COVID closures donated half a million dollars to school board races around the state. Also in 2021 came Pennridge’s first serious battles over diversity programs. Then there was the curriculum.

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Can patriotism and criticism coexist in social studies?

The Hechinger Report

Skyler Wheeler, a conservative, has a different view on the Pulitzer Prize-winning project, which has been expanded to include reading guides and lesson plans. To conservatives, the framework is a “ Trojan horse ” for a “woke” federal curriculum; to liberals , it’s a license to schools to teach any version of history they like.