Republican A.G.s object to U.S. Department of Education proposal on teaching about racism [View all]
WASHINGTON — More than two dozen Republican attorneys general are voicing their disapproval over the U.S. Department of Education’s proposed priorities for teaching K-12 students about American history and civics education because they would include references to systemic racism and how the history of slavery has shaped the United States.
The A.G.s argue in a May 19 letter to Education Secretary Miguel Cardona that public schools should not be given grant funds to teach about critical race theory, “including any projects that characterize the United States as irredeemably racist or founded on principles of racism (as opposed to principles of equality) or that purport to ascribe character traits, values, privileges, status, or beliefs, or that assign fault, blame, or bias, to a particular race or to an individual because of his or her race.”
Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody hasn’t signed, but Gov. Ron DeSantis has been attacking the theory for months and has instructed the state Board of Education to ban it.
“It’s offensive to the taxpayers that they would be asked to fund critical race theory — that they would asked to fund teaching kids to hate their country and to hate each other,” the governor said Friday.
Read more: https://www.floridaphoenix.com/2021/05/23/republican-a-g-s-object-to-u-s-department-of-education-proposal-on-teaching-about-racism/
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