Get set for dangerous Critical Race Theory in every school in America

The programs immediately targeted by Biden’s new priority criteria for grants are small. Once in place, however, those criteria will undoubtedly influence the much larger and vastly more dangerous “Civics Secures Democracy Act.” That bill would appropriate $1 billion a year, for six years, for history and civic education. Support for leftist “action civics” is already written into the priority criteria of the bill itself. The anodyne-sounding criteria — favoring grants targeted to “underserved” populations and the mitigation of various racial, ethnic and linguistic achievement gaps — would be interpreted as a green light to fund Critical Race Theory in schools. The draft rule for grant priority makes it clear that this is indeed the Biden administration’s intent. The rule explicitly endorses the wave of woke Critical Race Theory sweeping through America’s schools. It also expresses support for “Culturally Responsive Teaching,” the ultra-woke and utterly politicized pedagogy derived from Critical Race Theory.