Legislation in South Carolina that would prohibit the teaching of critical race theory (CRT) in K–12 classrooms was approved by the state’s House of Representatives on April 21.
House Bill 5183, or the South Carolina Transparency and Integrity in Education Act, seeks to prevent “ideological and viewpoint biases” from being presented as fact instead of theory while maintaining “complete histories of South Carolina and the United States.”
The proposal was introduced by the Education and Public Works Committee in March and was approved after second reading in the House on a 73–40 mostly party-line vote. The measure would give parents and students a voice in raising objections to material that they believe has been presented in a biased manner.
…