A group of conservative parents who ran for a school board acted immediately to fulfill their campaign promises of bringing more curriculum transparency and fiscal responsibility and to put a stop to the “woke agenda”. As soon as the new majority was sworn in to take their place in the Berkeley County School District in South Carolina, they took action.
Within two hours of their first meeting on Tuesday, the new board voted to fire superintendent, Deon Jackson, and the district’s lawyer, Tiffany Richardson.
The new board also banned all Critical Race Theory (CRT) curriculums from their schools and launched a committee to evaluate whether certain books in district libraries are age appropriate.
The rapid moves showed the impact of a group called Moms for Liberty, which focused on electing conservative school board members and prompted an uproar among some community members in attendance.
According to NBC News, Moms for Liberty endorsed more than 500 school board members across the county and achieved an astounding 49 percent success rate.
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In the Berkeley County School Board in South Carolina, the school board voted 6-2 to ban Critical Race Theory in its schools at its first meeting with the newly elected school board.
The school board called Critical Race Theory “A worldview — that believes all the events and ideas around us in politics, education, entertainment and the media, the workplace and beyond must be explained in terms of racial identities.”
The Daily Caller Reports:
After being elected to the school board on Nov. 8, six members endorsed by the parental rights in education group Moms for Liberty banned Critical Race Theory (CRT) and set up a process to eliminate sexually explicit books at their first meeting.
On Tuesday, the Berkeley County School Board in South Carolina passed a resolution 6-2 that prohibits CRT from being taught in the classroom and voted 8-0 to form a committee to review books that have been flagged for sexually explicit content. The board also voted 6-3 to fire the school district’s superintendent Deon Jackson and the district’s lawyer Tiffany Richardson.
“In the community many people know that these candidates support parental rights, but not only that, they support transparency,” Christi Dixon, the chair of the Berkeley County Moms for Liberty chapter, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “They want to make sure schools are safe. They want to make sure that financially [the school] is responsible with all the funding.”
