How a Teachers Union Promotes Critical Race Theory

A toolkit tells teachers how to push radical ideology on children despite Gov. Youngkin’s ban.

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Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin won election in 2021 in no small part on education policy, including a promise to ban critical race theory in schools. His first executive order instructed the Superintendent of Public Instruction to review curricula and end the use of “inherently divisive concepts, including Critical Race Theory.”

But that hasn’t stopped the Virginia teachers union from using its pipeline to teachers to promote the teaching of a left-wing political agenda and activism. A “toolkit” pushed by the Virginia Education Association (VEA) shows how they do it.

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