President Trump threatened to redirect funds away from public schools teaching an alternative view of U.S. history based on slavery.

In a Sunday morning tweet, Trump said the Education Department would investigate schools that seek to integrate the 1619 Project, an ongoing New York Times Magazine project that argues the American founding began the year the first slaves were sold to British colonists, rather than 1776, the year the United States declared independence.

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