Tag: Asra Q. Nomani
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A Win! Va. Ed Dept Removes “Virginia Math Pathways Initiative”
by Asra Q. Nomani Yes, Virginia, there is critical race theory in the state. Read our examples at Parents Defending Education. There were 20. Now, there are 19. In their first week in office, Jillian Balow, the new Virginia superintendent of schools, and Elizabeth Schultz, the new Virginia assistant superintendent, have eliminated the Virginia Department of Education’s…
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How to Discriminate by Race… Without Admitting You’re Discriminating by Race
New board emails, texts reveal “embarrassing” politics with “bonus points” by Asra Q. Nomani In fall 2020, Fairfax County, Va., school board members said the quiet part out loud. As school district officials engineered race-based admissions changes to America’s No. 1 high school, to increase the numbers of Black and Hispanic students, school board member…
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Accidental Activists
by Asra Q. Nomani In most of our lives as mama bears and papa bears facing activists in a campaign for the soul of America’s children, we had a moment of awakening. A moment when we knew that we had to speak up. Mine came on June 7, 2020, when Ann Bonitatibus, the principal of…
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Glenn Youngkin: America’s Parent Champion
by Asra Q. Nomani Dear friends, It is my honor to name our first recipient of our Parent Champion Award. We have established this award to honor someone who has gone above and beyond in championing the rights of parents in their children’s lives. There is a parable that says “For such a time as…
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Mama Bears Vs. the Feds
FBI vs. MomsOutside the Fairfax County school board meeting at Luther Jackson middle school. We are not afraid to defend children! @DefendingEd #defendinged Watch the meeting. livestream 7 pm https://t.co/ayMLqv9aMW pic.twitter.com/FVqLV54aG3 — Asra Nomani (@AsraNomani) October 8, 2021 by Asra Q. Nomani Last Thursday night, October 7, local grandma Orene Blum stood graceful and dignified,…
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Porn in Fairfaxxx School Libraries
https://twitter.com/AsraNomani/status/1441356537163706378?s=20 by Asra Q. Nomani Last night, Thursday, September 23, a brave Fairfax High School mother, Stacy Langton, walked up to the podium at a regular meeting of the Fairfax County School Board, carrying with her two books and printouts from images in the books. She had watched a Texas school board meeting at which…
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“Let Them Die” Redux
by Asra Nomani Harry Jackson, the first Black president-elect of the PTSA at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, stood before a crowd of parents here at Luther Jackson Middle School last week to oppose the divisive ideology of critical race theory that has put forward flawed policies in K-12 schools across the…
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Combating the Great Awokening
by James A. Bacon Outside of the People’s Republic of Charlottesville, Northern Virginia is the most lopsidedly Democratic region of Virginia. It is also the most woke, and it is pushing the so-called “equity” agenda in schools more aggressively than anywhere else in the state. But the educrats have over-reached, pushing too far, too fast,…
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Judge: TJ Is for Gifted Students, But…
by Asra Q. Nomani Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge John Tran denied a request by 15 local parents to force Fairfax County Public Schools to reinstate race-blind, merit-based admissions tests to Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, America’s No. 1 high school, but clearly stood on the side of the parents in their…
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The War on Asians, the Death of Meritocracy, and Assault on STEM
by Asra Q. Nomani FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va. — This past weekend, about 100 families, students, alumni and community members Thomas Jefferson High School for School and Technology stood on the grassy lawn in front of the school and held a symbolic memorial service for the nation’s No. 1 high school. “Remember the glory of…