{"id":1386725,"date":"2022-03-17T15:50:30","date_gmt":"2022-03-17T19:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1386725"},"modified":"2022-03-17T16:14:44","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T20:14:44","slug":"pat-mccrorys-north-carolina-education-appointee-supported-critical-race-theory-training-for-disabled-preschoolers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pat-mccrorys-north-carolina-education-appointee-supported-critical-race-theory-training-for-disabled-preschoolers\/","title":{"rendered":"Pat McCrory&#039;s North Carolina Education Appointee Supported Critical Race Theory Training for Disabled Preschoolers"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpat-mccrorys-north-carolina-education-appointee-supported-critical-race-theory-training-for-disabled-preschoolers%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1386725&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Former North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory (R), who is now an establishment-backed U.S. Senate candidate, appointed an education official during his governorship who has since gone on to support Critical Race Theory (CRT) in education.<\/p>\n<p>McCrory, who was governor of North Carolina for one term between 2013 and 2017, made Eric Davis\u00a0<span>chairman of the North Carolina State Board of Education in 2014. Davis is reportedly registered as an unaffiliated voter, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carolinajournal.com\/news-article\/democrats-shore-up-dominance-on-n-c-state-board-of-education\/\">according<\/a> to the <em>Carolina Journal. <\/em>He was senior vice president with Wells Fargo Corporate Real Estate Group, a West Point graduate, and was a member of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education, as well as a former chairman.\u00a0 Current Gov. Roy Cooper (D) \u2014 who McCrory lost to in the 2016 election \u2014\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/governor.nc.gov\/news\/press-releases\/2021\/04\/15\/governor-cooper-announces-state-boards-and-commissions-appointments\">reappointed<\/a> Davis to the position in 2021.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>As Breitbart News\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/education\/2022\/01\/10\/north-carolina-ed-groups-halt-funding-crt-disabled-preschoolers\/\">reported<\/a>, the North Carolina State School Board <a href=\"https:\/\/simbli.eboardsolutions.com\/Meetings\/Attachment.aspx?S=10399&#038;AID=307899&#038;MID=12048\">approved<\/a> a contract with the University of North Carolina (UNC) Chapel-Hill\u2019s Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center\u00a0in early January of 2022, in which $7 million in funding from the IDEA Preschool Handicapped Grant was awarded to North Carolina by the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) at the U.S. Education Department. The state\u2019s largest education groups <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edfirstnc.org\/post\/press-release-groups-oppose-nc-s-teaching-preschoolers-with-disabilies-to-deconstruct-whiteness\">sounded the alarm<\/a> on the contract soon after, saying the contract promotes a \u201cstate-wide preschool program that pushes critical race theory in special education classrooms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In audio of the State School Board meeting which Breitbart News obtained, Davis voted \u201cyes\u201d in favor of the program, and the contract passed 7-4.<\/p>\n<p>North Carolina\u2019s largest education groups \u2014 Education First Alliance, No Left Turn in Education, and NC Citizens for Constitutional Rights \u2014 found that the program\u2019s \u201cIdentity\u201d module tells teachers that \u201cwhiteness affects everything outside of the classroom\u201d and that the goal of pre-K is to \u201cdeconstruct\u201d whiteness for all students.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cDeconstructing whiteness, they explain, is challenging whiteness and building skills to be accountable to people of color,\u201d the groups reported.<\/p>\n<p>According to the education groups, the program encourages three-to-five-year-olds to \u201cquestion scientific, social and historical facts,\u201d as well as to \u201cquestion issues of power and control in their lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One slide from the program obtained by the Education First Alliance and presented in their\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.edfirstnc.org\/post\/press-release-groups-oppose-nc-s-teaching-preschoolers-with-disabilies-to-deconstruct-whiteness\">press release<\/a>\u00a0states the program seeks to build \u201cracial identity\u201d in young children by urging teachers to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Encourage the children to question social, scientific, and historical facts. We want children to question whether information is true.<\/li>\n<li>Talk with children about their identities.<\/li>\n<li>Present materials that show children of color in positions of power or authority as main characters.<\/li>\n<li>Learn and teach about people of color all year; ensure that children of color see themselves in the curriculum.<\/li>\n<li>Provide challenging instruction that encourages children to question what they see around them including issues of power and control.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Besides the vote this year to approve the program for disabled preschoolers, Davis also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carolinajournal.com\/news-article\/democrats-shore-up-dominance-on-n-c-state-board-of-education\/\">voted<\/a> with Democrats 7-5 to <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/dpi.nc.gov\/social-studies\/newly-approved-k-12-social-studies-standards\">approve<\/a> new social studies standards for the state in February of 2021, the <em>Carolina Journal<\/em> reported. Critics of the standards say they are built upon the tenets of CRT \u2014 the modules for most grade levels contain a heavy emphasis on \u201cgender\u201d and race.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the time, [Lt. Gov. Mark] Robinson called the standards \u2018politically charged\u2019 and \u2018divisive\u2019 for teaching American history through the lens of racism and discrimination,\u201d the <em>Journal<\/em> stated.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>In June 2020 following the death of George Floyd,\u00a0<em>The Pulse<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pulse.ncpolicywatch.org\/2020\/06\/03\/state-board-of-education-takes-on-racism-in-response-to-civil-unrest\/#sthash.1cBUF1ai.AIRX1iJr.dpbs\">reported<\/a> that Davis believed the nation had \u201csuffered under the disease of systemic racism for far too long.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLike COVID-19, which is seemingly invisible, which can be carried, transmitted and received unknowingly, inequity and racism are in the air we breathe,\u201d Davis said. \u201cAnd like COVID-19, we must first mitigate its spread and ultimately vaccinate ourselves and remove it from our society.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt will take intentional, determined, relentless commitment and work from all of us, especially those of us who are white, in positions of power and leadership, to end the social pandemic,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Breitbart News reached out to McCrory\u2019s U.S. Senate campaign office asking for McCrory\u2019s position on Critical Race Theory, parental rights in education, and education overall, as well as whether he stands by his decision to appoint Davis during his governorship and whether he agrees with Davis\u2019s more recent decisions. His campaign did not respond by the time of publication.<\/p>\n<p>McCrory is backed by outgoing Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC), one of the seven Senate Republicans who voted in favor of convicting Trump of impeachment charges in 2021. McCrory served as Charlotte mayor for 14 years, governor for one term, and was host to a popular Charlotte-based radio show before terminating it last year to run for office.<\/p>\n<p><em>Katherine Hamilton is a political reporter for Breitbart News. You can follow her on\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" title=\"This external link will open in a new window\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/katherineeeeee2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former North Carolina Gov. 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