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Watch: Springfield Public Schools district leaders, lawyer react to recent lawsuit over equity training

Watch: Springfield Public Schools district leaders, lawyer react to recent lawsuit over equity training

Missouri’s KY3 News covers federal lawsuit filed by Southeastern Legal Foundation on behalf of educators seeking to stop Missouri’s largest public school district from violating the First Amendment and requiring as a condition of employment that its educators commit to equity, become anti-racist educators, and affirm divisive and discriminatory programming that promotes treating individuals differently based on skin color.

Just The News: Missouri teachers sue district for ‘oppression matrix’ antiracist training, compelled speech

Just The News: Missouri teachers sue district for ‘oppression matrix’ antiracist training, compelled speech

Just The News reports on the federal lawsuit filed earlier this week by SLF on behalf of educators in Springfield, Missouri. In the lawsuit, Brooke Henderson and Jennifer Lumley allege that Springfield Public Schools requires them to undergo “equity training” that includes discussing their place on an “oppression matrix” and advocating for “changes in political, economic, and social life.”

Washington Examiner: Chicago-area lawsuit blows up media defenses of critical race theory

Washington Examiner: Chicago-area lawsuit blows up media defenses of critical race theory

Writing in the Washington Examiner, Quin Hillyar discuss the lawsuit SLF filed on behalf of a teacher against Evanston, Illinois school distirct and declares: “Just about everything wrong with critical race theory and the badly misnamed “anti-racism” movement is summarized in one lawsuit filed late last month against the public school system of Evanston, Illinois.”