IRMO, S.C. — Author Ta-Nehisi Coates sat silently through a school board meeting in South Carolina to support a high school teacher told to stop using his book on growing up Black in America in her advanced English class. Wood asked her Advanced Placement English students to read the book and watch two videos on systemic racism she used to …
Hundreds of Floridians attend contentious school board meeting in Hernando County Conservative forces are growing on several school boards in Florida. But in one county, some school board members have held back a right-wing attempt to remove a superintendent. STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: The kind of school board meeting we are about to hear could have taken place in any one …
