Education

The proposal seeks to carbon copy a Trump-era executive order that similarly sought to ban any form of anti-bias training or implementation of “critical race theory” before a court blocked it.

“It’s time for us to elect people with political courage, and who will center our most vulnerable and our low-income communities of color and reverse the policies that have hurt people who have the least access to capital.”

One of her finals acts was telling the Department of Education that it shouldn’t protect LGBTQ students.

“Who is going to stand in front of these students if we don’t? History has its eyes on us.”

The daunting question as we approach 2021 is, invoking the words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., “where do we go from here?”

Dwayne Bensing, an out lawyer & former staffer at the Department of Education under DeVos, reflects on her anti-LGBTQ crusade and looks forward to her eventual exit.

“We’re at an inflection point. We can’t take democracy for granted. Everyone has to pitch in.”

“A lot of us are verbally attacked,” he told LGBTQ Nation. “So being a role model to LGBTQ youth would mean so much to me, to say, hey it can be done.”

A gay retired principal endured hours of anti-LGBTQ rhetoric. As soon as it was his turn to speak, religious zealots attempted to intimidate him and called him a “Nazi pig.”

Sabrina Haake has been active in fighting for LGBTQ rights for many years, and now she wants to go to Capitol Hill and take on the climate crisis and education system.