Republican lawmakers are picking back up on a past effort of Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., to defund schools and districts adopting the 1619 Project in their curriculum.
Cotton’s Saving American History Act, first proposed last summer amid social unrest, would prohibit federal funds to K-12 or school districts to teach the 1619 Project and schools teaching the controversial curriculum will be ineligible for federal professional-development grants.
“Activists in schools want to teach our kids to hate America and hate each other using discredited, Critical Race Theory curricula like the 1619 Project,” Cotton wrote in a statement. “Federal funds should not pay for activists to masquerade as teachers and indoctrinate our youth.”
The 1619 Project is a “revisionist history project” of The New York Times widely criticized by historians, Cotton added.
Despite major criticism of the project, schools around the country have begun incorporating the 1619 Project into their curricula. So far, schools or school districts in Chicago, Newark, N.J., Buffalo, N.Y., and Washington, D.C. have all reportedly announced 1619 Project-related programs.
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