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Kansas City area school board removes social justice lessons
In this Oct. 9, 1999, file photo, a cross made of stones rests below the fence in Laramie, Wyoming, where a year earlier, University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard was tied and pistol whipped into a coma. He later died. “The Laramie Project,” a play and film about the incident, was part of a curriculum removed from Lansing classrooms. Ed Andrieski, File AP Photo Going against a district recommendation, the Lansing school board removed high school English curriculum after a parent complained that her daughter’s course had been “hijacked by a social-political agenda” and was “representative of critical race theory.” The school board in Leavenworth County last week voted 4-3…