Wisconsin lawmaker proposes ban on teaching critical race theory in DC schools

The legislation, titled “Ending Critical Race Theory in D.C. Public Schools Act,” requires that no employee of D.C. public and charter schools “shall compel a teacher or student to adopt, affirm, adhere to, or profess ideas that promote race or sex stereotyping or scapegoating.”

The proposal, which says it is the sense of Congress that D.C. school employees “should maintain policies in accordance with title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, is the latest in a number of legislative attempts to oust the teaching of critical race theory from classrooms across the country, which has been criticized by mostly conservatives as a method of teaching that further inflames racial division.”

In essence, critical race theory claims “racism is a normal and ordinary part of our society, not an aberration,” according to a seminar created by Fordham Law School’s Center on Race, Law and Justice.

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However, the nation’s capital is under the authority of Congress, with both chambers in Democratic control, so the bill is unlikely to pass.

The D.C. Council responded to the proposed legislation in a Twitter post, saying, “Actually, here in DC, we teach Critical *State* Theory,” adding, “We are deeply Critical of people elsewhere telling us how to educate our own children in our own soon-to-be State.”

In April, the House passed a bill seeking to make heavily Democratic D.C. a state, which would grant its residents the same representation and powers of the present 50 states.

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President Joe Biden backed the bill to make Washington, D.C., the 51st state, but the legislation faces a long odds in the evenly divided Senate with a tiebreaker in Vice President Kamala Harris.