An education bill introduced by Missouri House Republicans contains an amendment that has groups like the ACLU of Missouri and the Education Equity Center of St. Louis up in arms.
State Rep. Nick Schroer鈥檚 amendment to would prohibit schools from teaching critical race theory, which is a framework that provides a race-conscious approach to understanding inequality and structural racism. Under Schroer鈥檚 amendment, any curriculum that 鈥渋dentifies people, entities, or institutions as inherently, immutably, or systemically sexist, racist, biased, privileged, or oppressed鈥� would be barred in schools.
The amendment 鈥� and its roots within 鈥� is the subject of Tony Messenger鈥檚 latest column,
How the Rockwood School District handles the debate is of particular interest to Messenger. As he notes in the column, his two youngest children have attended schools there, and his wife works for the district.
On Tuesday鈥檚 St. Louis on the Air, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch metro columnist joined Sarah Fenske to discuss Missouri House Republicans鈥� attempt to prohibit educators from teaching the 1619 Project and critical race theory, and how the proposal is shaking things up within his St. Louis County school district.
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