On October 11, 2021, the Intercept reported on an Ohio State Board of Education member who has refused to condemn white supremacy. Board member Diana Fessler criticized Resolution 20\u2014an anti-racism resolution passed in July 2020, just weeks after the murder of George Floyd by a Minnesota police officer\u2014asserting that it violated the federal Civil Rights Act of 1964.<\/p>\n
The resolution called for the state to provide implicit bias training for board members, examine school curricula for racial bias, and develop new practices for staff development, hiring, and student discipline. As the Intercept reported, Fessler \u201cinaccurately referred to the resolution in question as a measure on critical race theory.\u201d<\/p>\n
After four new members were elected in November 2020, and three new members were appointed by Republican governor Mike DeWine, the Ohio State Board of Education voted 14-4 to bring the resolution to Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost to determine its legality. During a subsequent meeting, held by the Ohio House Government Oversight Committee, Fessler stated that the resolution \u201cseems patently noncompliant with the Civil Rights Act of 1964\u201d because it required the State Board of Education to condemn \u201cwhite supremacy culture\u201d\u00a0 in \u201cthe highest terms possible.\u201d<\/p>\n
In response to Fessler\u2019s remarks, a ranking member of the Government Oversight Committee, Democratic Representative Bride Rose Sweeney of Cleveland, stated, \u201cThere should be zero controversy over condemning white supremacy as a hateful culture of violence and division. Instead, Ms. Fessler\u2019s comments showcase not only severe racial bias but also the extremism infecting the Ohio Legislature.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Ohio State Board of Education repealed the resolution in October 2021. Many Republican board members agreed with Fessler that it was \u201cdangerous,\u201d and \u201canti-American.\u201d After voting against its repeal, the board\u2019s standing president, Laura Kohler, and another board member, Erik Poklar, were pressured to resign. Charlotte McGuire and Steve Dackin, who both voted in favor of repealing the resolution, were subsequently elected as the board\u2019s new president and vice president.<\/p>\n
As of late November 2021, a review of coverage using ProQuest\u2019s U.S. Major News Dailies indicates that this story has been ignored by the nation\u2019s major establishment news outlets. In October 2021, The Columbus Dispatch<\/em><\/a> covered the repeal of the anti-racism resolution, including a news photos of a protestor opposed to the resolution holding a sign that reads \u201cStop Cultural Marxism.\u201d<\/p>\n Source: <\/strong>Akela Lacy, \u201cOhio State Board of Education Member Defends White Supremacy,\u201d The Intercept<\/a>, October 11, 2021.<\/p>\n Student Researchers:<\/strong> Ava Mullin, Erin Hellauer, Robert Giannelli, and Julia Ware (University of Massachusetts Amherst)<\/p>\n Faculty Evaluator:<\/strong> Allison Butler (University of Massachusetts Amherst)<\/p>\n The post Ohio State Board of Education Fails to Condemn \u201cWhite Supremacy Culture\u201d<\/a> appeared first on Project Censored<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n This post was originally published on Validated Independent News<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On October 11, 2021, the Intercept reported on an Ohio State Board of Education member who has refused to condemn white supremacy. Board member Diana Fessler criticized Resolution 20\u2014an anti-racism\u2026<\/p>\n The post Ohio State Board of Education Fails to Condemn \u201cWhite Supremacy Culture\u201d<\/a> appeared first on Project Censored<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":667,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2035],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873318"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/667"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=873318"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1527186,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873318\/revisions\/1527186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=873318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=873318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}