Radio Iowa You are here: Home Bill advances to ban use of ‘1619 Project’ in Iowa schools Skyler Wheeler Republicans on an Iowa House subcommittee have advanced a bill that would pull state funding from public schools if a New York Times series about slavery is used in history classes. Representative Skyler Wheeler, a Republican from Orange City who is the bill’s sponsor, said the 1619 Project is projecting “a clear viewpoint.” “It seeks to distort facts, not simply teach them and it does so as leftist political propaganda masquerading as history,” Wheeler said. Rita Davenport, who spoke at a statehouse subcommittee hearing on Tuesday, said the 1619 project promotes Black “victimhood.”