Rep. Chip Roy (TX-21) reintroduced two education bills Friday to defund woke, racist indoctrination and fund students over systems in America’s public education system.
The Combatting Racist Teaching (CRT) Act will prohibit federal funding from going to schools that seek to indoctrinate children with critical race theory. The Support Children Having Open Opportunities for Learning (SCHOOL) Act will empower parents by allowing federal funds to follow a student, regardless of whether the child is in public school, private school, or homeschool.
Congressman Roy said: “Critical Race Theory (CRT) has poisoned the minds of America’s youth and represents a direct attack on the core values that made America great. No one in America—students, teachers, government employees, or anyone else—should be indoctrinated to hate our country, its founding, or their fellow citizens. At the same time, if a school, bureaucrat, politician, or union boss continues their agenda to morally corrupt the hearts and minds of students, parents should be able to fully be in the driver’s seat of their children’s education and be able to choose to have their child educated elsewhere.
In November, parents said, “enough is enough” and gave Republicans a mandate to strip the federal government of its power over education and return it to the states and parents. These two bills will help bolster the actions taken by the Trump administration and help fulfill the mandate given to us in November.”
Specifically, the Combatting Racist Teaching in Schools (CRT) Act, would bar funding to institutions that promote theories describing:
- Any race is inherently superior or inferior to any other race, color, or national origin.
- The United States is a fundamentally racist country.
- The Declaration of Independence or Constitution of the United States are fundamentally racist documents.
- An individual’s moral character or worth is determined by the individual’s race, color, or national origin.
- An individual, by virtue of the individual’s race, is inherently racist or oppressive, whether consciously or unconsciously.
- An individual, because of the individual’s race, bears responsibility for the actions committed by other members of the individual’s race, color, or national origin.
The SCHOOL Act allows federal funds for K-12 education to follow the eligible child, regardless of whether the child is in public school, private school, or homeschool.
Specifically, the ‘SCHOOL’ Act:
- Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act to allow certain funds authorized under those laws to follow a child, whether learning in person or remotely, to the public school, private school, or homeschool of choice.
- Allows those funds to be used for a range of needs, including:
- curriculum materials;
- technological educational materials;
- tutoring;
- extracurricular activities;
- private school tuition; and
- educational therapies for students with disabilities.
- Ensures each child would receive the same amount of funding, regardless of where the child is enrolled.
- Ensures that no child choosing to take advantage of these opportunities would be precluded from a federally funded school food program.
- Protects non-public education providers from Federal and State control.
Read the full legislation for the Support Children Having Open Opportunities for Learning (SCHOOL) Act here.
Read the full legislation for the Combatting Racist Teaching (CRT) Act here.
