Republican Ohio Senate candidate Josh Mandel took aim at Republican Gov. Mike DeWine for the state’s Education Department listing the New York Times’s 1619 Project curriculum as a teaching resource.

The inclusion of the Pulitzer Center’s 1619 Project curriculum was included in an Education Department social studies newsletter in November 2019 and remains on the website. The 1619 Project is regularly criticized by academics and conservatives for historical inaccuracies and its cultural messages.