Bills to end Critical Race Theory in Louisiana schools die in committee
The committee voted unanimously to involuntarily defer the bills after much debate over whether or not the Legislature should set school curricula.
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The committee voted unanimously to involuntarily defer the bills after much debate over whether or not the Legislature should set school curricula.
Louisiana could soon give parents of students struggling to read the option to pull them out of public school and provide them money for private school or homeschooling.
The bills, House Bill 1014 and House Bill 747, were both authored by Rep. Raymond Garofalo, R-Chalmette. The bills tackled what many would call critical race theory.
The committee voted unanimously to involuntarily defer the bills after much debate over whether or not the Legislature should set school curricula.
BATON ROUGE--The House Education Committee on Tuesday killed two bills by a conservative lawmaker that would have prohibited teaching concepts related to race, ethnicity, national origin and sex.