A new report on state measures to ban critical race theory said legislatures should look to North Carolina as a model for proposing legislation that both bans the controversial theory and avoids censorship.
The report authored by the American Enterprise Institute’s Max Eden explained that there are three approaches being deployed in legislative efforts to ban critical race theory in public schools, but it said bills that ban the promotion of the theory are the model legislation.
Critical race theory says American institutions and culture are fundamentally and systemically racist and actively oppress racial minorities. Critical race theorists say that to oppose systemic racism, one must be “anti-racist.”
The issue of critical race theory in public schools has generated substantial controversy nationwide over the past year as parent groups have organized against school officials to push back against the inclusion of aspects of the theory in public school curriculum.
