When a pro wrestling executive with orders to dismantle the US Department of Education tries to use the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to bully states into abandoning efforts to provide children with equitable access to education, you need a leader who will stand on principle.
That’s what North Carolina Superintendent of Public Instruction Mo Green did this week.
Earlier this month, the Dept of Ed sent a directive to all state departments of education requiring them to certify their compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the federal law which prohibits “discrimination based on race, color, or national origin in programs or activities that receive federal financial assistance.”
The Department of Education’s directive indicated any State Education Agency using diversity, equity and inclusion practices to “advantage one’s race over another” were in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act. The DOE threatened any such violations would be grounds for loss of continued federal funding (roughly 10% of district budgets), possible clawing back of previously disbursed federal funds, potential civil penalties and additional litigation.
Superintendent Green’s letter, which cc’s Governor Josh Stein, Attorney General Jeff Jackson, and the State Board of Education, affirms that North Carolina school districts are in compliance with Title VI, also noting that the Department of Education lacks the authority to “make unilateral changes” to that law.
The superintendent ends with a commitment to the children who are under his care as the leader of K-12 education in North Carolina:
“In North Carolina, we remain committed to ensuring our public schools provide environments free from discrimination based on race, color, or national origin. We will continue working to ensure fairness, remove barriers to opportunity, and make decisions based on merit and need. Public education is about opening doors, not closing them. Every decision we strive to make, whether about discipline, curriculum, hiring, or resource allocation—is grounded in fairness, providing access to equal opportunity, and is made in the best interests of all public school students.”
You can read Superintendent Green’s letter to Secretary of Education Linda McMahon in its entirety below:
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Too many expect so much from our public schools but refuse to raise the taxes we pay to our schools. They are foolish indeed and now we have idiots like that man that was killed (now I regret he was shot and killed but he didn’t believe in schooling females as he considered we females to only be worthy of bearing children and caring for their husbands and the children they may bear.
When men become pregnant with all the nausea, cramping, lack of sleep and painful birthing their children they can then advise others. I am one of nine children that my dear mother had at home with a good hearted doctor who would sit and talk hoping to take her mind off her horrific pain and she said she would wish he would shut up!
I myself had six children and knew a blessed woman here in our small town who gave birth to 13 children, no multiple births either. She was a saint too but her husband was a dictator; if there is a heaven she will be there but he may not; just my guess.
Life is hard for so many here in America; and what help they receive is resented by some I hear speaking their minds but they wouldn’t trade places.
Contraceptives should be free everywhere and give women a choice; we too are human beings supposedly having equal rights!
So thankful for state superintendent, Mo Greene, who puts children first. Continue to resist and stand against the crazy!