One Texas school district voted Monday night to ban critical race theory, among other policy changes.
The Grapevine-Colleyville Independent School District board voted 4-3 to ban critical race theory from being taught in its 17 public schools, plus its virtual school, collegiate academy, and two alternative schools. Its newly adopted policy also included not encouraging or requiring the use of pronouns other than those assigned at birth and a bathroom policy requiring students and staff to use the bathroom of their birth-assigned gender.
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Almost 200 people signed up to give public comment at the meeting, with each receiving a three-minute time limit. As a result, the Grapevine-Colleyville Independent School District board of trustees meeting went on for over 7 1/2 hours. The board room only seats 55 people.
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Speakers and the board were aware that there were multiple people from political action committees present to give public comment. All speakers were required to divulge whether they lived in the district or not.
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Meanwhile, in Buffalo, New York, a school district has a proposal of its own to use COVID-19 relief funds toward college classes for its students that would teach critical race theory. It received a total of $289 million in funds.
