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Parents and community activists gathered outside a Loudoun County Board of Education meeting on Tuesday to demand an “end to the racist and divisive ideologies that are being infused into public schools.”
Loudoun County has become a center of parental activism in recent years, with debates over critical racial theories spilling over into the rest of the United States.
Ian Prior, executive director of Fight for Schools, said at Tuesday’s protests, “Parents are waking up and the school system, administrators and school boards are focusing more on politics than on their jobs.” I noticed that you put .
Loudoun County’s guardians led Republican Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin to victory in last year’s election to much acclaim, along with Virginia Attorney General Jason Myares and Lt. Gov. Winsome Sears. I came. A veteran and immigrant, Sears is also the first black woman elected statewide in Virginia.
On his first day in office, Youngkin signed an executive order to “end the use of concepts that are inherently divisive, including critical race theory, and to raise academic standards.”
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Other parent advocacy groups, including Army of Parents and Moms for Liberty, also joined Tuesday’s protests, as did retired Navy Captain Hung Cao, who is running for Virginia’s 10th congressional district as a Republican. Participated.
“As your legislator, I will remove all political issues from schools,” Cao said on Tuesday. so that you can control how you learn
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Tuesday’s rally was called the “ERACED Rally.” Another group staged a demonstration nearby called the “EmbRACE Do Not Erase Protest.”
“Now we have to show why it’s important to talk about social-emotional learning, CRT, race and racism,” organizers wrote on the rally’s Facebook event. cannot let this anti-education rhetoric stand, we must stand up for black and POC students.”