North Dakota has become the latest state to ban critical race theory (CRT) from being taught in public school classrooms. On Friday Gov. Doug Burgum, a Republican, signed into law House Bill 1508, a day after the one-page bill overwhelmingly cleared both chambers of the Republican-majority state legislature. Proponents of the ban said this legislative effort was based on the demands of concerned parents. “Our parents are seeing these types of ideas, these types of concepts in critical race theory being brought home by their children,” said Republican state Rep. Jim Kasper, one of the bill’s sponsors, reported The Bismarck Tribune. Unlike anti-CRT laws enacted in some other states, such as the Texas law targeting individual concepts derived from CRT, the new North Dakota law specifically mentions the ideology, which is rooted in Marxism, by its name and prohibits its incorporation into K-12 curriculum. Under the new law, school districts …