Spotlight on Mo Green, Democratic Candidate for Superintendent of Public Instruction (BCDP Weekly)
Spotlight on Mo Green: This week we’re looking at the Superintendent of Public Instruction race. Champion of public education Mo Green is running against Michele Morrow, an anti public education, pro book ban, far-right activist.
Mo Green is the former superintendent of Guilford County Schools. During his time there, student performance increased, and graduation rates hit an all-time high. Compare this to Morrow, who has never worked in or taught at a public school and homeschools her children. Experience matters!
Morrow has also called for the public executions of multiple elected officials, including President Obama, President Biden, and Governor Cooper. She’s spread Islamophobia by saying that Muslim Americans should be barred from holding public office, called public schools “indoctrination centers,” and supports diversion of public-school funds to private schools via vouchers.
We need Democrat Mo Green as our next Superintendent of Public Instruction!
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Honoring Juneteenth
On June 19th, we commemorate Juneteenth, when more than 250,000 enslaved Black people in the state of Texas finally learned they were free. News of the end of slavery reached Confederate-controlled Galveston, TX in 1865, more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 and months before ratification of the 13th Amendment.
With President Joe Biden's signature in 2021, the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act marked June 19th as a federal holiday. At an event in Washington, DC, Vice President Kamala Harris said: “Today as we celebrate Juneteenth, together we are reminded of the promise of America. A promise of freedom, liberty and opportunity, not for some but for all. In many ways the story of Juneteenth and of our nation is a story of our ongoing fight to realize that promise.”
