Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Tuesday warned in an op-ed that “insidious lies” about U.S. history are being taught in American schools, praising the Trump administration’s effort to counter such anti-American indoctrination. The CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus pandemic, while disrupting the education of American students with widespread school closures, has also made parents increasingly aware that their children are learning “outright anti-American material,” according to DeVos’s op-ed for Fox News. DeVos specifically called out the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1619 Project, which she described as “a debunked reframing of history.” Spearheaded by New York Times reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones, the project centers around the idea that the United States is an inherently racist nation built upon slavery. It consists of a collection of essays that argue, among many other controversial claims, that the republic’s founding ideals of liberty and equality “were false when they were written,” and that the primary reason for …