Trump demands 'patriotic education' in classrooms

President Trump announced Thursday that he was working to restore “patriotic education” to schools with a national commission to encourage schools to teach children a positive version of American history as he railed against what he said were liberal attacks on the country’s legacy.

His speech at the White House Conference on American History included passages denouncing critical race theory (and its inclusion in federal diversity training programs) and the New York Times’s 1619 Project on slavery as “toxic propaganda.”