{"id":1432014,"date":"2022-04-11T23:00:10","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T03:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1432014"},"modified":"2022-04-11T23:00:13","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T03:00:13","slug":"conservative-hillsdale-college-fights-leftist-academics-by-expanding-charter-school-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/conservative-hillsdale-college-fights-leftist-academics-by-expanding-charter-school-network\/","title":{"rendered":"Conservative Hillsdale College Fights &#039;Leftist Academics&#039; by Expanding Charter School Network"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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%2Fconservative-hillsdale-college-fights-leftist-academics-by-expanding-charter-school-network%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=1432014&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--><p class=\"subheading\">Hillsdale College, a conservative institute of higher education focused on teaching the Western tradition, is taking a stand against leftist indoctrination in K-12 education by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/04\/10\/us\/hillsdale-college-charter-schools.html\">opening<\/a> a network of charter schools set on portraying America as an \u201cexceptionally good country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As K-12 schools around the country have been exposed as centers for indoctrinating children into believing America is a systemically racist and irredeemable country, the small liberal arts college in southern Michigan is looking to take on \u201cleftist academics\u201d by partnering with states to develop charter schools in its academic tradition as an alternative.<\/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>Indeed, Hillsdale <a href=\"https:\/\/k12.hillsdale.edu\/Curriculum\/The-Hillsdale-1776-Curriculum\/\">developed<\/a> the \u201c1776 Curriculum\u201d to combat the pseudo-history coming out of the <em>New York Times<\/em>\u2018 \u201c1619 Project\u201d and critical race theory \u2014 something that leftist school districts have injected into the classroom.<\/p>\n<p>The college that Justice Clarence Thomas <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dVqZ-dsjJXY&#038;ab_channel=HillsdaleCollege\">called<\/a> the \u201cshining city on a hill\u201d for its adherence to \u201cliberty as an antecedent of government, not a benefit from government\u201d in his 2016 commencement address has already secured $32 million in public funds from Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee (R) to start 50 charter schools \u2014 adding to its ranks of 24 schools in 13 states. Lee called Hillsdale\u2019s approach \u201cinformed patriotism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor decades, Hillsdale College has been the standard-bearer in quality curriculum and in the responsibility of preserving American liberty,\u201d Lee said. \u201cI believe their efforts are a good fit for Tennessee.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_15098247\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2020\/11\/Bill-Lee.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee speaks on the pandemic in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on April 30, 2020. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In what appears to be a hit piece about Hillsdale in the K-12 space, the <em>New York Times<\/em> \u2014 apparently unironically \u2014 said the advancements represent \u201cpushing the boundaries on the use of taxpayer money for politically tinged education.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Times<\/em> also criticized Hillsdale for its \u201cglossy spin on American history\u201d and its \u201cnegative take on the New Deal and the Great Society\u201d \u2014 both of which fundamentally altered the relationship between American citizens and their government, heavily favoring government power.<\/p>\n<p>Hillsdale appears to be answering a call from many parents and conservative lawmakers to provide a legitimate alternative to underperforming, activist-driven public schools, and establishment educrats appear uneasy with such an affront to their status quo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been following charter schools over the last 25 years, and I\u2019ve never seen a governor attempting to use charters in such an overtly political way,\u201d University of California \u2013 Berkeley education and public policy professor Bruce Fuller told the <em>Times<\/em>. \u201cYou\u2019ve had governors who\u2019ve encouraged the growth of charters to provide more high-quality options for parents, but it\u2019s highly unusual to see a governor deploy the charter mechanism for admittedly political purposes.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>The charters that Hillsdale sets up, however, are not owned or operated by the college itself. Rather, schools sign up to use the curriculum and the college provides free training for faculty and staff.<\/p>\n<p>One critic of the Hillsdale curriculum said it takes an \u201coverly positive\u201d view of American history.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt talks about the enormity of slavery, but in almost every case, everything that\u2019s bad about America will be undone by what is good,\u201d Dr. Sean Wilentz, a Princeton professor who also criticized the \u201c1619 Project,\u201d told the <em>Times<\/em>. \u201cAlmost, literally, that American ideals will overcome whatever evils may be there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Times<\/em> also complained that the curriculum takes a critical view of seismic assaults on federalism such as the New Deal and the Great Society programs of the 1930s and 1960s, respectively, as well as its lack of reference to \u201cclimate change\u201d in science offerings.<\/p>\n<p>The outlet does concede, however, that the schools produce higher-than-average SAT scores among their student populations.<\/p>\n<p><em>Breccan F. Thies<\/em>\u00a0<em>is a reporter for Breitbart News. You can follow him on Twitter\u00a0<a title=\"This external link will open in a new window\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreccanFThies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@BreccanFThies<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hillsdale College, a conservative institute of higher education focused on teaching the Western tradition, is taking a stand against leftist indoctrination in K-12 education by opening a network of charter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":179,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1432014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/179"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1432014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1432014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1432014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1432014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}