The North Carolina Governor’s School will pay out four years of stipends and promise to respect its instructors’ free speech to settle a state lawsuit from a former professor.
The summer school for gifted high school students previously fired David Phillips, a community college English instructor, after he criticized critical race theory in a seminar.
“After Phillips delivered three optional seminars in June 2021 critiquing critical theory and the increasing bias and lack of viewpoint diversity in higher education, North Carolina public school officials fired him mid-session without any explanation,” Alliance Defending Freedom previously stated after filing the initial lawsuit.