by Nicholas Sherman at Just the News
The nation’s largest teachers union appeared to delete parts of its website content on Tuesday, in portions that outlined agenda items pushing critical race theory in schools.
Jesica Anderson, the executive director of Heritage Action, the conservative grassroots organization, tweeted a screen-grab Tuesday of the National Education Association’s website, showing pages were taken off that previously announced the group’s campaign to push critical race theory.
Anderson and American author and critic James Lindsay tweeted archived links from the union’s site. The pages were allegedly taken down three days after the conclusion of the NEA’s annual meeting.
In a page called New “Business Item A,” NEA asked for an increase to their budget by an additional $675,252 to establish “a task force that identifies the criteria for safe, just, and equitable schools, including exploring the role of law enforcement in education.”
This task force would “advocate for just funding formulas that remedy pervasive resource disparities based upon race, income, and geographic wealth patterns, and advocate for no-cost higher education.” It would train school personnel, including teachers and administrators “cultural responsiveness, implicit bias, anti-racism, trauma-informed practices, restorative justice practices and other racial justice trainings.”
The second page that appeared to be removed was titled…
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