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Oregon Department Of Education Drops $50,000 On Nikole Hannah-Jones ‘1619 Project’ Webinars

Chrissy Clark
Oregon Department Of Education Drops $50,000 On Nikole Hannah-Jones ‘1619 Project’ Webinars
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The Oregon Department of Education paid $50,000 for two webinars with The New York Times’ 1619 Project author Nikole Hannah-Jones.

The advocacy group Oregonians for Liberty in Education (OLE) reported that the Oregon Education Department used resources from the “Every Day Matters” program — a program designed to help routine truants — to pay for Hannah-Jones’ lectures.

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