John Klar: Vermont gangs rising and will get worse
If Vermont police arrest these extremely violent offenders, they are condemned as racists. No wonder crime in Burlington and Vermont is skyrocketing. It will doubtless get worse.
19 ‘freedom-loving states’ form anti-ESG alliance
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is leading the alliance, which includes Govs. Kim Reynolds of Iowa, Tate Reeves of Mississippi, Brian Kemp of Georgia, Spencer Cox of Utah, Jim Justice of West Virginia, Mark Gordon of Wyoming, and Kay Ivey of Alabama, among others.
Teachers, activists push school districts to drop calculus in the name of equity
Teachers and activists are pushing for high schools to drop their calculus courses to increase equity as many minority and low-income students don’t have access to the class, according to The 74, a nonprofit news organization covering education.
Lawmaker: Legislation that prioritizes ‘a particular group of people by name is discriminatory’
Last week, the House Committee on General Housing reviewed a report from the Vermont Land Access Opportunity Board and discussed racial disparities as a basis for allocating state resources.
‘Structural racism and microaggressions’ push out former equity director in Winooski
In June last year, Winooski’s first-ever equity director quietly left her position. The job has gone unfilled since. And now city councilors want to drop funding for an equity director in the upcoming fiscal year’s budget, putting a “pause” on a role meant to address racial disparities.
Vermont’s social equity director: Make sure carbon-usage penalties are ‘high enough’
Last Friday, the Senate Committee on Natural Resources and Energy met with Xusana Davis, Vermont’s executive director of racial equity, on how racial equity themes play into energy policy as they work through the Affordable Heat Act.
Vermont students to ‘critically examine systems of oppression’ in classroom
The ACT 1 Ethnic and Social Equity Standards working group met online on Monday to discuss social justice issues in education policy, including a lengthy debate over what terms to use to describe non-European Americans.
Rookie House lawmaker proposes ‘academic freedom of public educators’ bill
A House lawmaker this week introduced a bill to protect the “academic freedom of public educators” who teach their personal beliefs regarding gender, race and other controversial topics in Vermont’s schools.
BIPOC members accuse Climate Council of racial ‘tokenism’
The first meeting of the Vermont Climate Council of 2023 erupted with frustrated members of the BIPOC community accusing the council of racial tokenism.
Third of Vermont’s towns have adopted declarations condemning discrimination
Around a third of Vermont’s towns have adopted declarations condemning discrimination and committing themselves to welcoming all people, and Bethel was one of the first.
The ‘work’ of Vermont’s new IDEAL program
I recently investigated what “work” was proposed to be done by Vermont’s new IDEAL program, funded with $220,000 to increase the work of diversity, equity and inclusion committees around the state. The chief work appears solely to be to inculcate woke ideology in the minds of more people.
Milton School Board hears parents’ concerns about equity policy proposals
“We would like to remind the school board trustees you are elected into your positions to represent the voice of Milton residents, parents and taxpayers. Therefore you work for us, not the superintendent or the administration,” DeLong said.