CRT Activists Sic Department of Education's Civil Rights Division On District to Circumvent Parents's School Board Win
CRT activists lost to parents at the ballot box and now claim failure to implement CRT is a civil rights violation to justify federal involvement.
CRT activists are weaponizing another federal agency to do what they couldn’t at the ballot box: implement within public schools institutionalized Marxist racism, known as Critical Race Theory or CRT. This is the newest tactic from CRT activists aided by AG Merrick Garland and the FBI who are using counterterrorism tactics to monitor parents critical of CRT.
They’re debuted their latest use of a weaponized Department of Education in Texas:
The U.S. Education Department’s civil rights enforcement arm is investigating allegations of discrimination at the Carroll Independent School District in Southlake, Texas, the agency and the school district confirmed Wednesday.
The department’s Office for Civil Rights notified the suburban school district’s officials last week that it had opened three investigations into complaints about discrimination against students based on their race, gender and national origin. The agency declined to provide details on the allegations and doesn’t comment on pending investigations, a spokesman said.
Karen Fitzgerald, a Carroll spokeswoman, confirmed that the district had received three notification letters and is “fully cooperating with this process.” […]
Brett Sokolow, president of the Association of Title IX Administrators, a consulting firm that advises school districts on how to resolve civil rights complaints, said when the agency opens an investigation, it’s often the beginning of a process that can take months or years. If the investigation confirms violations of students’ rights, the agency can require a school district to make policy changes and submit to federal monitoring.
“Opening a complaint means that OCR believes that there is a likely violation based on the complaint,” he said. “And then they’re going to do their due diligence to find out more information.”
All we know is that three complaints were filed last year through an advocacy group, no determination has been made, and CISD hasn’t received a copy of the complaint. No specifics were given to parents or lawmakers who say that the DOE is stonewalling them for answers on what, if any “civil rights violations” took place to the degree that the federal government had to get involved instead of any state or local agencies. Not implementing CRT is not a “civil rights violation.”
Here’s why this is happening: Parents in my town of Carroll ISD were successful in the past two municipal elections of taking back their school board from CRT activists and winning three seats. All three races were won by an insurmountable landslide — +30 in the first two seats late last year and +40 last month.
This momentum was born when CRT activists tried to implement a three million dollar Cultural Competency Plan (CCAP) at taxpayer expense, discussed here for Newsweek:
A careful read of CCAP shows the plan was anything but inclusive. It calls on the district to root out "microaggressions," and details how the district would track them for inclusion on a student's "discipline offense history."
The plan also would require "diversity and inclusion training for students as an 'enrollment to graduation' process in all grades and on CISD campuses." It proposes a critical race theory curriculum for each grade and regular surveys of students on "inclusion and diversity." It would establish a hotline for reporting violations "that inhibit progress toward cultural competence goals."
CCAP also would require all school clubs undergo "equity audits," mandate that the district hire a Director of Equity and Inclusion and force teachers to undergo equity and inclusion training. What's more, it instructs the district to create a PR campaign with magazine ads and professionally produced video "featuring...equity messaging."
In total, CCAP mentions "equity" 135 times and focuses on behavioral conditioning, not education.
CRT activists got nasty ahead of elections and still after.
From the Southlake Families PAC:
Southlake Families was formed in the late summer of 2020 by families that live in Carroll ISD. This organization was formed, first and foremost, based on the love of this community and all that it has stood for. Southlake Families would love nothing more than to see our community return to the days of 'we are all Dragons'. Radicals simply do not want real unity.
Good people were viciously attacked. Our volunteers’ children were threatened. Our supporters' businesses were called. Fake social media accounts were developed and vulgar things said. Conservatives' jobs were threatened if they opposed CCAP in CISD's public forum.
CRT activists publicly threatened to bring in the federal government when they lost to parents who voted overwhelmingly against Marxist racism in the last elections — and now seem to be colluding with the DOE and NBC to orchestrate their end-run around parents:
The parent-run and led group, Southlake Families PAC, has filed several FOIA requests:
1) Documentation from, to or between the Department of Justice and the Department of Education regarding any CISD constituent being tagged by the DOJ's Counterterrorism Division of the FBI for speaking in CISD's public forums
2) Any communications from local citizens to the DOJ as threatened multiple times on social media
3) Any link between the DOJ, FBI and the DOE with regards to three investigations the Department of Education launched against CISD (See Royce West Release here with speakers Russell Maryland and Pam Francis, both District Diversity Council members who support CCAP, threatening to weaponize the DOJ against Southlake CISD March 12, 2021)
Meanwhile, Texas lawmakers are demanding answers:
Reported earlier this week, the investigation comes amid questions about how the Biden administration views parents opposed to CRT. Van Duyne on Thursday worried that the latest investigation — conducted by the Education Department's Office of Civil Rights — represented an effort to intimidate parents.
Van Duyne said: "At a time when we have limited resources already in education and at a time when we are trying to come out of a pandemic … for the Department of Education to waste its resources on what is obviously a politically motivated attack on a school district that voted against a Democrat agenda, I just think it's weaponizing our DOE, and it should not go without being investigated."
A growing number of other Representatives and Senators are demanding answers by from the DOE.
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