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• "We are very excited to formally announce a well-deserving student, Amashia Mabone, as our first scholarship recipient at Lane College," said 6K Energy COO Rob Davies.
• Lane College President Dr. Logan Hampton added, "I am ecstatic for Amashia and thankful to 6K Energy for working with Lane College in creating the "$6K for 6K Scholars" program.
• We recognize the commitment 6K Energy has made with the program and appreciate how they have quickly become a desired employer for students of Lane College."
• She is also a talented musician and expresses her talents through her participation in the Lane College band.

• Window Hero Northeast Reading is owned by U.S. Navy veteran Michael Yednock, an electronics and robotics technician.
• "I had always wanted to open my own business and the team at HomeFront Brands really sold me on Window Hero," Yednock said.
• Window Hero specializes in a wide range of exterior cleaning services including window cleaning, gutter care, pressure washing and solar panel cleaning.
• For more information about Window Hero Northeast Reading, please visit https://windowhero.com/locations/northeast-reading/ .

• The love and grace of Christ and how he fixed my brokenness and transformed my life is the passion behind it.
• Barnes shares her emotional and relatable story along with powerful insights to provide readers hope and encouragement to endure, face their demons, and trust that God can lead them to a better life.
• Her personal journey is one of hope during a colorful and wonderful life mixed with the bizarre, the traumatic, and the painful.
• Allowing God to lead truly awakened her warrior spirit and took her faith to a new level – transforming both her mind and life.

• During a 2021 Virginia gubernatorial debate, Democratic candidate Terry McAuliffe made a critical mistake that led to his defeat by GOP challenger Glenn Youngkin.
• Instead of acknowledging concerns that parents were having over school curriculum, McAuliffe dismissed them.
• “I’m not going to let parents come into schools and actually take books out and make their own decision,” McAuliffe said during the debate.
• But at Ocean Hill-Brownsville, it was Black and Latino parents who demanded their right to have a say in the education of their children.

Inside the classrooms

• In the 1960s, only a handful of textbooks on the Board of Education-approved list discussed the history of African Americans in significant detail.
• The lack of such material was widely blamed for the disappointing academic performance of Black and Latino students.
• Not everyone supported the changes to what was being taught in the classrooms.

• In this racially charged atmosphere, local parents enjoyed an unprecedented opportunity to assert their rights.
• Their recommendations would eventually influence the direction of curricula in the New York City public school system as a whole.

A constant struggle

• Indeed, in Virginia itself, Black parents are still having an effect on what is taught in public schools.
• Black politicians and parents criticized those revisions as “white-washing,” and the changes were later rejected by the state Board of Education.

• In a further blow to conservatives, parental activists helped shepherd new, more historically inclusive standards that were approved in April 2023.
• As history has shown – and today’s debates over school curricula show – “parental rights” are for all parents.

Jerald Podair does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.