Galen Bacharier and Roger McKinney
USA TODAY NETWORK
JEFFERSON CITY Missouri is surveying school districts around the state on whether they teach critical race theory, state education officials said Monday, as a legislative committee held a contentious initial hearing on the topic.
Michael Harris, chief of governmental relations for the state s Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, told the committee that the department asked districts around the state whether their curriculum includes the academic concept or The 1619 Project. A department spokesperson said Monday that the department sent superintendents the survey July 12, and it closes Friday.
That disclosure came during a tense, nearly three-hour hearing at the Capitol in which lawmakers from both chambers heard testimony exclusively from opponents of critical race theory, almost all of whom were invited by the committee s chair, Shelbina Republican Sen. Cindy O Laughlin. Public spoken testimony was not
Missouri polling schools on whether they teach critical race theory
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