Nashville Tennessean In the final days of the legislative session, Republicans in the Tennessee House are reopening an education committee to rein in what public schools will be allowed to teach on the topics of racism and inequality. Members of the House education administration committee — which had previously closed for the year — will return Monday morning to amend legislation with still unreleased language intended to prohibit schools from teaching lessons about systemic racism, among other topics touching on race and sex. The effort, spearheaded in part by Rep. John Ragan, R-Oak Ridge, comes as conservative activists nationwide have increasingly sounded the alarm about ideas aligned with critical race theory being taught in both primary schools and higher education institutions.