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Culture  |  Frank Corder  • 
January 13, 2022

SCOTUS blocks Biden’s COVID vaccine mandate on businesses, allows health care worker mandate to stand

OSHA will not be allowed to impose its vaccine and testing rules on employers with over 100 workers. On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court announced that it was blocking President Joe Biden’s federal COVID-19 vaccine-or-test mandate for employers with at least 100 employees in a 6-3 decision. However, the Court did allow a vaccine mandate…
Culture  |  Anne Summerhays  • 
January 13, 2022

State Superintendent: “We are not teaching CRT in our social studies standards. Period. The end.”

Despite using NCSS and its “action civics” C3 Framework as a main resource, Dr. Wright tells Mississippi Senate Education Committee Critical Race Theory is not in K-12 schools. During a Senate Education Committee meeting on Wednesday, Dr. Carey Wright, State Superintendent of Education, discussed the Department’s Fiscal Year 2023 budget request, 2022 legislative priorities, ESSER…