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What is critical race theory, and could it be taught in PA schools?


At a recent Pennsbury School Board meeting, parents and taxpayers spent 90 minutes arguing that a new racial equity policy and plan should never have been approved.
The 20 who spoke out against the plan, unanimously adopted by the board on May 20, described it as part of an insidious and subversive implementation of critical race theory.
“You may not be calling it ‘critical race theory,’ and are disguising it as social and emotional learning, but we are not fooled,” said school board candidate Jen Spillane, of Yardley.
Debate over critical race theory has been a divisive, and misunderstood, topic at school board meetings throughout Bucks County and nationwide as calls continue for reforms nationwide, pushed to the forefront by the Black Lives Matter movement. Part of those changes have been a demand for better student equity and inclusion in public school policy and curriculum.  ....

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