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Missouri's two largest counties say "chaos now reigns" in the state after a judge's ruling handcuffed local health departments from issuing COVID orders. Plus, conservatives in the Kansas Legislature want to ban critical race theory in schools, but educators worry those efforts could hamper their ability to teach history honestly.
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Missouri Attorney General sues Springfield schools in quest to find 'critical race theory' documentsAttorney General Eric Schmitt requested that Springfield Public Schools provide records of where it incorporated elements of critical race theory in its training and class work. The district says Schmitt is using the courts “to attack public education."
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School board meetings held a reputation for being tame — even boring — affairs focusing on things like student achievement and bond issues. Now, it's a totally different ballgame.
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People running for local office in Kansas find themselves in increasingly partisan-like contests settled by an ever more polarized electorate.
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White families have a tendency to avoid tough racial conversations by teaching colorblindness or by failing to intervene when witnessing racist behavior—habits that reinforce racism in American culture.
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In Blue Valley and other districts, school board races that previously were tame affairs are increasingly lit up by hot-button national issues, including schools’ efforts at addressing race and diversity.
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In a hearing that only included witnesses on one side of the debate, lawmakers attempted to determine if concepts from a controversial legal framework have made their way into public school curriculum.
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Critical Race Theory is being debated in statehouses across the country.
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Why the theory that has been taught for decades is now under attack and Lenexa author Elizabeth Bunce shares the creation story of her youthful detective Myrtle Hardcastle.