Source: The Pamphleteer
by Davis Hunt
“Less than 48 hours into the new Trump administration, one of Tennessee politics’s most recent controversies has reached the national stage thanks to the nomination of former Tennessee Education Commissioner Penny Schwinn as Deputy Secretary of Education. From the COVID era to her 2023 resignation, Schwinn racked up an avalanche of negative press from local conservative and liberal outlets while serving as a lightning rod for Tennessee’s grassroots conservative movement. During the pandemic, Schwinn faced a lawsuit from Moms for Liberty after she granted a waiver for an English Language Arts curriculum called ‘Wit & Wisdom’ that had failed a state review twice for backdooring CRT concepts into lesson plans for elementary school students. Her support for CRT led to numerous clashes with the state legislature, including its 2020 decision to remove the Commissioner of Education as a voting member of the Tennessee Textbook and Instructional Materials Quality Commission.” (01/22/25)
https://pamphleteer.co/newsletter/the-miseducation-of-penny-schwinn/