Far right Republicans, including Kentucky Rep. Ed Massey of Kentucky and Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert and Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz, are sponsoring legislation to “abolish” the Education Department.
, when lawmakers began implementing standards to improve education and protect the civil rights of students of color as schools desegregated. This could conceivably include Title IX, which has prohibited gender-based discrimination in schools since the 1970s.
Far right Republicans, including Kentucky Rep. Ed Massey of Kentucky and Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert and Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz, are sponsoringto “abolish” the Education Department. The bill has little chance of passing the House, at least as long as Democrats remain in control. However, Muñoz said conservatives had no problem with the department when Betsy DeVos, the billionaire champion of school privatization, served as education secretary under Trump.
“The Department of Education has over the years — insufficiently, we would argue — intervened to make sure that students have legal protections they are promised by Constitution and enjoy basic civil rights,” King said. “There is a resentment about equal opportunity, there is a resentment about diversity, and that is what we are seeing right now.”This is an effort to deny access to the schoolhouse door to children and the lifelong benefits education can bring.
Republicans are attracted to the culture wars in public schools for the short-term political gains, which can propel GOP activists in local elections while, on the national level, whipping conservative voters in a frenzy for the midterms. But the right is also playing the long game, Muñoz said. As the uproar over critical race theory created chaos in school board meetings, think tanks such as the Heritage Foundation dusted off their old playbooks for undermining civil rights.
Muñoz pointed to the Supreme Court, which could be poised to eliminate the constitutional right to abortion and
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