The Arizona Department of Education will be promoting conservative nonprofit’s online content for use, calling it “wholesome, patriotic, unbiased educational materials.”
PragerU material features an animated Frederick Douglass praising the Founding Fathers for not outlawing slavery, videos that downplay climate change, and conservative activists ridiculing the Black Lives Matter movement.
Moving to a four-day school week helped a Cartwright School District principal recruit teachers from outside of Arizona.
The unaccredited, far-right group PragerU’s ideological classroom materials are now available for classroom use all across the state.
Hobbs proposed bringing back a requirement that students who use vouchers for private schools must have first attended public school.
The proposal had bipartisan support in 2023, but died due to hardline Republicans who refused to bring the bill to a vote.
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Participants on Tuesday discussed “the growing chorus of diverse voices speaking out against politicians and their far-right supporters’ attempts to attack students’ freedom to learn."
