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Podcast: Belabored
Episode: Belabored: Critical Race Panic in Schools, with Jesse Hagopian
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Teachers around the country are under pressure—not just the continued stress of teaching in a pandemic, but now a new right-wing campaign to ban “critical race theory” in schools aims to crack down on teachers who teach honestly about racism. Jesse Hagopian, a Seattle teacher, writer, and editor of books including Black Lives Matter at School, joins us to discuss this latest backlash, and what teachers and their unions can do to protect themselves and their students.
We also look at the new just cause provisions in New York City, th...