Newly Elected Conservative School Board Fires Superintendent, Bans Critical Race Theory

In one meeting, Deon Jackson went from being South Carolina’s Berkeley County school superintendent to being unemployed.
His firing came at the hand of a newly elected school board, which appears to have declared a judgment day for “woke” practices in its district.
In its first meeting after the Nov. 8 election, the board fired Jackson and school counsel Tiffany Richardson. Then it hired Anthony Dixon as superintendent and retained Brandon Gaskins as counsel. And before the day was over, the board banned teaching critical race theory and created a board to review library books for pornographic content.
Moms for Liberty, an activist group that supports parental rights in education, endorsed six of the board’s nine members. Many Moms for Liberty candidates won school board elections this November, as reported previously. The group’s leaders say that more aggressive school management decisions may soon be in order….