Action Civics: Joe Biden Set to Push Critical Race Theory on U.S. Schools | National Review
Biden s Department of Education has just released the text of a proposed new rule establishing priorities for grants in American History and Civics Education programs. That rule gives priority to grant projects that incorporate racially, ethnically, culturally, and linguistically diverse perspectives. The rule goes on to cite and praise the New York Times landmark 1619 Project, as well as the work of Critical Race Theorist Kendi, as leading examples of the sort of ideas the Biden administration wants to spread.
The programs immediately targeted by Biden s new priority criteria for American history and civics grants are small. Once in place, however, those criteria will undoubtedly influence the much larger and vastly more dangerous Civics Secures Democracy Act. That bill would appropriate $1 billion a year, for six years, for history and civic education. Support for leftist action civics is already written into the priority criteria of the bill itself. I have argued that additional anodyne-sounding priority criteria in the Civics Secures Democracy Act criteria favoring grants targeted to underserved populations and the mitigation of various racial, ethnic, and linguistic achievement gaps would be interpreted by the Biden administration as a green light to fund Critical Race Theory in the schools. The new draft federal rule for grant priority in American history and civics education makes it clear that this is indeed the Biden administration s intent.
Well that’s not good.