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Key Points
- Teachers and policy experts are pushing back after the state of Minnesota’s education licensing board voted to overhaul their standards and require new teachers to adopt core aspects of critical race theory and gender ideology.
- According to the updated “Standards of Effective Practice,” promulgated by Minnesota’s Professional Educator Licensing and Standards Board (PELSB), educators are required to commit to affirming various and “diverse perspectives on race, culture, language, sexual identity, ability,” etc. in the classroom to be licensed educators.
- Rebecca Friedrichs, a twenty-eight-year public school teacher and the founder of “For Kids and Country,” told Fox News Digital that every single “buzzword” from the far-left political agenda is listed in the new standards.
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