Alabama Governor Forces Out Black Education Official Who Provided Training On Structural Racism, Calls It “Woke”

By Melissa Noel ·Updated April 24, 2023

Alabama’s director of early childhood education is out of a job over the use of a teacher training book that the state’s Republican governor denounced as teaching “woke concepts” due to language about inclusion and structural racism, the Associated Press reports

Barbara Cooper was forced out as director of the Alabama Department of Early Childhood Education after Governor Kay Ivey voiced concerns

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