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Jill Biden leaves job at Virginia community college ahead of White House departure

17 December 2024 at 09:21

First lady Jill Biden announced that she recently taught her last class at Northern Virginia Community College.

"Last Thursday I taught my last class of the semester and my final class ever at Northern Virginia Community College," she said.

She made the remarks in a message to educators while flanked on either side by union presidents Randi Weingarten, of the American Federation of Teachers, and Becky Pringle, of the National Education Association.

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A spokesperson for the first lady indicated via email to Fox News Digital that it is not clear if the first lady will continue teaching.Β 

Jill Biden had been a professor at the institution since 2009, according to her biography on the White House website.

"While serving as First Lady, Dr. Biden continued teaching English and writing at Northern Virginia Community College, where she has been a professor since 2009. She is the first presidential spouse to maintain an independent career outside of the White House," the White House noted.

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First Lady Jill Biden and President Joe Biden will vacate the White House next month following the peculiar 2024 presidential election season in which the president bowed out of his re-election bid after clinching enough wins to become his party's presumptive presidential nominee.

But following a widely-panned debate performance, and amid public pressure from members of his own party to step aside, Biden dropped out and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris.

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President-elect Donald Trump ultimately trounced Harris in the general election, winning both the Electoral College and popular vote, becoming the second president in U.S. history ever to win two non-consecutive terms. The first was President Grover Cleveland in the 19th century.

PA Education Department agrees to cancel requirement for teachers to adopt guidelines deemed 'woke'

22 November 2024 at 01:00

The Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE) has agreed to cancel its requirement for schools to enforce teaching guidelines that were deemed "woke" in a recently settled lawsuit.

Pennsylvania officials were requiring schools to adopt a set of instructions on how to approach teaching under their "Culturally-Relevant and Sustaining Education Program Framework Guidelines" (CR-SE).Β 

The guidelines included mandating teachers to "design learning experiences and spaces for learners to identify and question economic, political, and social power structures in the school" and "disrupt harmful institutional practices, policies, and norms."

The Thomas More Society, a faith-based legal group, filed a lawsuit against the PDE in April 2023 on behalf of a group of parents and public school districts who argued the mandate violated their First Amendment rights.

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The PDE agreed to settle the suit in November and rescind its CR-SE guidelines.Β 

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"We are incredibly pleased with this settlement agreement, which forces the Pennsylvania Department of Education to rescind the state’s β€˜Culturally-Relevant and Sustaining Education’ guidelines – securing an important victory for Pennsylvania parents, students, and teachers," Thomas Breth, special counsel for the Thomas More Society, said in a statement.

"Our agreement is a triumph against the Department’s blatantly ideological and illegal attempt to inject β€˜woke’ activism into school curricula across Pennsylvania, which demanded educators affirm their belief in these ideological tenets and then impose the same upon their students," Breth added.

Just days after the settlement, the department issued new suggestions under their new "Common Ground Framework," though schools are no longer required to comply with the guidelines.

Asked about the settlement, PDE highlighted their new guidelines in a statement shared with Fox News Digital.

"PDE is proud to offer this resource as an improvement on previously issued guidance, with an expanded focus on digital literacy, mental health, and trauma – real issues that impact those in all spaces of learning within every Pennsylvania community," Erin James, PDE press secretary, said in a statement.

The new guidelines encourage educators to "understand the importance of differences in marginalized learners and historically underrepresented groups," such as gender identity, according to the department's website.Β 

Additionally, teachers in the state are still encouraged to "create an equitable learning environment by challenging and debunking stereotypes and biases about the intelligence, academic ability, and behavior of historically marginalized learners."

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