Arkansas, Texas | July 21, 2021
Military Institutions Dodge Questions on Critical Race Theory
Arkansas, Texas | July 21, 2021
U.S. military institutions dodged questions about the role of Critical Race Theory (CRT), a topic that recently triggered heated exchanges between conservative legislators and defense leaders. The Epoch Times reached out to military bases regarding CRT cases reported via a whistleblower program launched at the end of May by Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) and Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.). Academies were also contacted for more curriculum details to support defense leaders’ argument that teaching CRT fosters an open-minded military. In response, the U.S. Naval Academy commented without addressing the CRT question, and West Point confirmed receiving and working on the request but didn’t comment. In addition, the Office of the Secretary of Defense press operations and local military base deferred to each other in response to a CRT case inquiry… (Excerpts from the Epoch Times)
Texas | June 4, 2021
How Southlake, Texas, Won Its Battle against Critical Race Theory
Texas | June 4, 2021
It was the weekend that changed politics in Southlake, Texas, forever.
At the end of July last year, word began to spread of a quiet effort by the school board to pass a so-called Cultural Competence Action Plan, a critical race theory-inspired effort to ingrain woke racial politics in the town’s schools.
Tim O’Hare, a former chairman of the Tarrant County Republican Party who would be at the center of opposition to the plan, together with his friend and long-time political organizer and activist Leigh Wambsganss, remembers being in Montana when he heard of the impending vote.
“It was the perfect time to pass it with as few people in town as possible,” O’Hare says. But the 72-hour notice that the school board had to give for its scheduled meeting on Monday, August 3 was enough time for opponents to begin to mobilize…
(Excerpts from the National Review)
Texas | June 2, 2021
Texas Foundation Poised to Lead Legal Challenges to Critical Race Theory in Schools
Texas | June 2, 2021
Texas Public Policy Foundation CEO Kevin Roberts told Epoch TV’s “Crossroads” program that he expects his organization will take the lead in future legal challenges to the Biden administration’s proposed new rule that seeks to fund grants for the teaching of Critical Race Theory (CRT) and so-called “anti-racist” ideas in the nation’s schools.
In a proposed rule released on April 19, the Education Department outlined new priority criteria for a $5.3 million American History and Civics Education grant, as well as exemplary materials for K-12 educators to use. Specifically, the department cited the “1619 Project,” and CRT advocate Ibram X. Kendi’s “antiracist idea” as leading examples of the kind of content it wants to use taxpayer dollars to promote in history and civics classrooms across the country….
(Excerpts from the Epoch Times)
Texas | May 28, 2021
Don’t cancel Chip and Joanna Gaines
Texas | May 28, 2021
HGTV stars Chip and Joanna Gaines are living the American dream. The married couple managed to turn their home renovation business in Waco, Texas into a wildly successful television show, Fixer Upper. The program, which ran for five seasons, led to a profitable home goods line at Target and their own TV network. They have five children and attend church regularly.
Chip and Joanna do not talk about politics on their show or on their social media accounts. Since the left has declared that silence is violence, that obviously means the Gaines family does not deserve all of their happiness and success. Naturally, the media is now trying to cancel them.
The latest ‘controversy’ pushed by outlets like the Hill and Jezebel is that the Gaines family donated to a local school board candidate that opposes teaching critical race theory. Never mind that it is a perfectly normal position to be against critical race theory in schools — the vast majority of Americans oppose the specifics of CRT when asked about them. Scores of parents are speaking out nationwide against what they view as racist indoctrination of their children…
(Excerpts from the spectator)
Texas | May 24, 2021
Texas Senate Passes Bill That Bans Critical Race Theory From Classrooms
Texas | May 24, 2021
The Texas state Senate passed a bill on May 22 that prohibits schools from mandating the teaching of critical race theory (CRT).
House Bill 3979 doesn’t mention CRT by name, but apparently aims to ban the quasi-Marxist ideology in public and open-enrollment charter schools.
According to the bill text, teachers, administrators, and employees from state agencies, school districts, and open-enrollment charter schools are prohibited from teaching students that one race is inherently superior to another race or sex or that an individual is inherently racist, sexist, or oppressive by virtue of his or her race or sex.
A teacher “may not [be] compelled to discuss current events or widely debated and currently controversial issues of public policy or social affairs” in social studies curriculum in Texas history, U.S. history, world history, government, civics, social studies, or similar subjects, according to the bill…
(Excerpts from the Epoch Times)
Texas | May 9, 2021
Texas Senate Bill Would Ban Critical Race Theory In Schools
Texas | May 9, 2021
A new bill in Texas would make it illegal to teach race or sex-based guilt in public schools.
Senate Bill 2202, currently under review in the House Public Education Committee, seeks to ban the teaching of radical ideology associated with Critical Race Theory in Texas public schools. The bill also mandates a robust academic focus on the founding documents and ideas of America. ..
(Excerpts from the Daily Wire)