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The council, which has an eight-member Black majority, passed the resolution Tuesday afternoon.
The resolution, which has no legal power, is in response to a bill that Tennessee General Assembly passed this month that would allow the state to withhold funding from school districts that teach "…an individual, by virtue of the individual’s race or sex, is inherently privileged, racist, sexist, or oppressive, whether consciously or subconsciously."
The Tennessee bill is not alone nationwide. It is among several bills and efforts from Republican lawmakers to restrict the teaching of critical race theory. When the bill passed in Tennessee, lawmakers did not cite a single school district teaching critical race theory, an academic school of thought that examines the lingering effects of slavery and analyzes systemic racism within institutions.