HRES 397
117th Congress
House
Education
Civics education
Constitution and constitutional amendments
Elementary and secondary education
Racial and ethnic relations
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Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination
Teaching, teachers, curricula
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that Critical Race Theory serves as a prejudicial ideological tool, rather than an educational tool, and should not be taught in K-12 classrooms as a way to teach students to judge individuals based on sex, race, ethnicity, and national origin.
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May 14, 2021
Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
May 14, 2021
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
This resolution calls on the Office for Civil Rights within the Department of Education and state attorneys general to assist elementary and secondary schools in complying with existing civil rights laws and investigate and enforce such laws. In addition, the resolution condemns the practice of requiring teachers to receive education in critical race theory as a condition of certification.
What's happening now
Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
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