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Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of January 31

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  1. kfwyre
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    Public education is facing a crisis of epic proportions

    Public education is facing a crisis of epic proportions

    Public education is facing a crisis unlike anything in decades, and it reaches into almost everything that educators do: from teaching math, to counseling anxious children, to managing the building.

    Political battles are now a central feature of education, leaving school boards, educators and students in the crosshairs of culture warriors. Schools are on the defensive about their pandemic decision-making, their curriculums, their policies regarding race and racial equity and even the contents of their libraries. Republicans — who see education as a winning political issue — are pressing their case for more “parental control,” or the right to second-guess educators’ choices. Meanwhile, an energized school choice movement has capitalized on the pandemic to promote alternatives to traditional public schools.

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  2. AugustusFerdinand
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    RNC committee advances resolution to censure Cheney, Kinzinger because they are participating in the investigation of the Jan 6 coup attempt.

    RNC committee advances resolution to censure Cheney, Kinzinger because they are participating in the investigation of the Jan 6 coup attempt.

    Members of the Republican National Committee's (RNC) resolutions committee on Thursday unanimously passed a resolution to censure Reps. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) and Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), though they declined to call for Cheney and Kinzinger to be expelled from the House Republican Conference.

    The resolution's passage was confirmed to The Hill by two sources familiar with the matter. The RNC's full body will likely vote to approve the censure on Friday at its winter meeting

    The resolution criticizes Cheney's and Kinzinger's involvement in the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, of which they are the only two Republican members.

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