At least two, possibly more diversity-training courses at Texas Child Protective Services are no longer offered after Republican gubernatorial hopeful Don Huffines called them “Marxist,” internal emails show.
by that name. Department spokesman Patrick Crimmins, though, said he couldn’t immediately say if such a course was dropped.
On behalf of caseworkers, Bañuelos asked whether they could take such courses if they’re offered “out in the community.” It’s not clear from the emails released whether Dryden, whom Masters recruited from Kansas’ child welfare agency in May 2020, ever responded. For a number of years, CPS had a special office charged with reducing the agency’s tendency to remove more children on suspicion of maltreatment from Black and Hispanic birth families than from white families — a phenomenon known as “disproportionality.”
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