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IREHR in Investigate West; “How A New Idaho Superintendent Is Tapping Far-Right Connections to Refashion A School District” – July 26, 2023

By July 26, 2023July 28th, 2023No Comments1 min read

IREHR’s Executive Director, Devin Burghart, was cited and quoted in Investigate West;

Author Daniel Waters Writes, “Education has long been a focus of the far right. Devin Burghart, president of the Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights, an extremism research organization, said that as the pandemic refocused attention on schools, some white nationalists in North Idaho have seen it as an opportunity to more openly influence politics.”

Burghart said, “Their willingness to be so brazen is not something we’ve seen before.”

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Laura Gibbons

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Laura Gibbons is an IREHR research associate.

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