“Fascists,” was the one-word response from one critic of Republican Gov. Kay Ivey’s administration in Alabama.

By Jon Queally. Published 4-22-2023 by Common Dreams

The state of Alabama’s top early education official was forced out Friday by Gov. Kay Ivey over a teacher resource guide—one that promotes inclusion of various kinds of families and acknowledges the reality of racism in the nation’s history—the Republican leader denounced as too “woke.”

After an apparent refusal to denounce the book or accept its removal, Barbara Cooper, head of the Alabama Department of Early Education, was compelled to tender her resignation, which Ivey accepted.

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