‘Exhausting’: What it was like to chair the Illinois state board of education during a pandemic – Chalkbeat Chicago

Said Darren Reisberg, "At a time when you’re seeing the critical race theory issues pervading across the country, the state board was able to push for culturally responsive teaching and leading standards here in Illinois. That will guide the way educator preparation programs prepare educators to go into classrooms. Even though we had a minority of stakeholders pushing against us, we didn’t back down."
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Pat S.
2 years ago

We’re happy our children and grandchildren won’t be educated by these woke social warriors.

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