Posted on 05/19/2021 10:01:42 AM PDT by re_tail20
Members of the 1776 Commission, which President Joe Biden disbanded on his first day in office, will reconvene next week in Washington after expressing opposition to a Biden administration regulation to promote critical race theory in schools.
While it’s no longer a presidential advisory commission or associated with the federal government as it was in the waning weeks of the Trump administration, 1776 Commission members will gather May 24 in Washington.
"It will continue in some form," Matthew Spalding, vice president of Washington operations for Hillsdale College and executive director of the commission, told The Daily Signal.
On Wednesday, the public comment period closes on a Department of Education regulation that would prioritize federal K-12 funding in part on critical race theory. That would also include promoting teaching The New York Times' 1619 Project, as well as the teachings of "anti-racist" activist Ibram X. Kendi.
Critical race theory is a theoretical framework that contends individuals are either oppressed or are oppressors, based on their skin color.
"The Department of Education’s proposed rule defining priorities for the American history and civics education programs, under the misleading name 'anti-racism,' actually encourages and seeks to direct federal funds to the teaching of racial discrimination in America’s elementary and secondary school systems," Spalding wrote in a letter Monday to the Education Department.
"The proposed rule should be withdrawn, just as individual states, which actually have the authority over the nation's K-12 educational system, should oppose race-based pedagogy as part of their curricula and even if attempted to be imposed by the federal government," his letter continued.
The proposed Department of Education rule states that American history and civics should reflect the role of diversity in the nation's democracy, as well as the consequences of slavery.
"This acknowledgement is reflected, for example, in The New...
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Because doing things like this shows that these efforts do not begin or end with Trump.
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Thank you to the commission for standing for America.
It would be great if we had an opposition party that would.
So if CRT is just a theory, that means it hasn't been proven to be true.
👍⚡Good news. thanks.
Might as well rename the Biden Department of Education the Ministry of Truth.
“Because doing things like this shows that these efforts do not begin or end with Trump.”
Who the heck do you think is promoting this in the background, Biden? Of course Trump is backing this. Geez. And by the way, as far as the great majority of Pubs are concerned, things DO begin and end with Trump. He will be our President again as of 2024.
we need to call it what it is at every opportunity....they are bigots and that they need to be addressed as bigots when they push there crap.
Hey, war is peace, freedom is slavery, and ignorance is strength.
I don’t think I agree with the theoretical framework, since the “yellow” Asian Mongols did plenty of nasty oppressing in their day. On the other hand I think education in this country has done a pretty successful “whitewash” of black history here.
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