Republican State Rep Steve Toth appeared on CNN on Tuesday to discuss a bill he introduced last month that would limit discussions of critical race theory in Texas public schools.
BATON ROUGE The Louisiana legislative session enters its last week with Republican leaders main tax overhaul proposals unfinished, but most other major issues settled in a rare year where lawmakers likely won t be scrambling to finish their workload in the session s waning hours.
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The Louisiana Legislature has recently undertaken efforts to prohibit the teaching of what is called critical race theory.
HB 564 by State Rep. Ray Garofalo would prohibit the use of “divisive concepts” such as those contained in critical race theory in student education or staff training in education from kindergarten through graduate school, for any institution that receives state dollars. (Numerous other states are also taking similar action to make certain this theory is not taught given their belief its “educational” intent is to divide, not unite us as a nation.)
But what is critical race theory (CRT)? Simply, CRT is an identity-based theory founded on a Marxist ideology of class conflict that its proponents seek to have taught in schools (and state and federal agencies) that promotes and advances the idea that Louisiana and America are systemically, hopelessly, and irreversibly racist. (We should note that LSU’s new president, William F. Ta