Scott Official Pushes Back on Former State Board of Ed Chair's Testimony
by Seven Days
Seven Days— Governor Phil Scott's chief of staff on Friday defended his boss's commitment to education and flatly denied the administration had tried to meddle in the past appointment of an education secretary. Jason Gibbs' email was a response to striking testimony that former State Board of Education chair Krista Huling gave on Wednesday before the House Education Committee. Huling, who led the board's search committee that resulted in the 2018 appointment of former education secretary Dan French,...
Talking Points Memo—Georgia Republican Official Who Defended State’s Election Results In 2020 Backs Biden. A former Georgia Republican official who had to defend his state's election administration after Donald Trump tried to overturn the results in 2020 has endorsed President Joe Biden and urged other
The Guardian—US public school officials push back in congressional hearing on antisemitism. Administrators from New York City, Maryland and California disavow accusations of tolerating hate on their campusesSome of America’s top school districts rebuffed charges of failing to counteract a surge of antisemitism on Wednesday in combative exchanges with a congressional committee that has been at the centre of high-profile interrogations of elite university chiefs.Having previously grilled the presidents of some of the country’s most prestigious seats of higher learning in politically...
The Guardian—Congress hears testimony on Russia’s sonic attacks on US officials in Havana. Panel heard from expert witnesses how Russia had ‘means, motive and opportunity’ for covert targeting of intelligence officersRussia has “targeted and neutralized” dozens of US intelligence agents in recent years in a covert worldwide operation using sonic weapons, a House committee heard on Wednesday as it looked into the mystery phenomenon known as Havana syndrome.The panel heard from expert witnesses that Russia had “the motive, the means and the opportunity” to enact the attacks on US...