Post by anansi on Sept 7, 2020 7:23:14 GMT -5
Trump says schools teaching NY Times’ 1619 Project ‘will not be funded’
Yup Donald Trump... Ur President! under the direction of Senator Tom Cotton, is taking down the issue of slavery in public schools, this is a challenge to ADOS and allies from the rest of the diaspora, whatcha gonna do about dat.
Part of This my affect your ability to get reparations, that's money owed, and yeah while he/they specified The 1620 Project, mission creep is bound to follow, remember when Uncle Ben Carson told us all that we were simply migrants to this hemisphere.
Seeing this attack on the educational system, and with the courts stocked with Trump appointees and the likes of Candice Owens and Ben Carson, this fight gets tougher.
President Trump on Sunday said the Department of Education was investigating whether California public schools will teach a curriculum based on the New York Times’ controversial “1619 Project” — and threatened to defund them.
“Department of Education is looking at this. If so, they will not be funded!” the president wrote on Twitter, linking to a post that said California had implemented the program.
The New York Times Magazine ran the series in 2019 to mark the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first slave ship in America, purporting to “reframe the country’s history, understanding 1619 as our true founding, and placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of the story we tell ourselves about who we are.”
The newspaper was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for its collection of essays, and the Pulitzer Center was named an education partner to develop resources for schools to teach the project.
But the series has come under fire by some scholars for factual errors.
GOP Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas called it a “revisionist account of history that denies the noble principles of freedom and equality on which our nation was founded,” and in July introduced legislation that would prevent schools from teaching the 1619 project.
It “would prohibit the use of federal funds to teach the 1619 Project by K-12 schools or school districts. Schools that teach the 1619 Project would also be ineligible for federal professional-development grants.”
nypost.com/2020/09/06/trump-schools-teaching-ny-times-1619-project-will-not-be-funded/
“Department of Education is looking at this. If so, they will not be funded!” the president wrote on Twitter, linking to a post that said California had implemented the program.
The New York Times Magazine ran the series in 2019 to mark the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first slave ship in America, purporting to “reframe the country’s history, understanding 1619 as our true founding, and placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of the story we tell ourselves about who we are.”
The newspaper was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for its collection of essays, and the Pulitzer Center was named an education partner to develop resources for schools to teach the project.
But the series has come under fire by some scholars for factual errors.
GOP Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas called it a “revisionist account of history that denies the noble principles of freedom and equality on which our nation was founded,” and in July introduced legislation that would prevent schools from teaching the 1619 project.
It “would prohibit the use of federal funds to teach the 1619 Project by K-12 schools or school districts. Schools that teach the 1619 Project would also be ineligible for federal professional-development grants.”
nypost.com/2020/09/06/trump-schools-teaching-ny-times-1619-project-will-not-be-funded/
Yup Donald Trump... Ur President! under the direction of Senator Tom Cotton, is taking down the issue of slavery in public schools, this is a challenge to ADOS and allies from the rest of the diaspora, whatcha gonna do about dat.
Part of This my affect your ability to get reparations, that's money owed, and yeah while he/they specified The 1620 Project, mission creep is bound to follow, remember when Uncle Ben Carson told us all that we were simply migrants to this hemisphere.
Seeing this attack on the educational system, and with the courts stocked with Trump appointees and the likes of Candice Owens and Ben Carson, this fight gets tougher.
