A Republican bill seeking to ban the teaching of the revisionist 1619 curriculum in Arkansas was rejected on Tuesday by a state legislative committee.
House Bill 1231 would restrict state funding from going to Arkansas’s public schools that teach a curriculum based on the New York Times’ 1619 Project, which portrays the United States as an inherently racist nation founded upon slavery. The 1619 curriculum, developed by Pulitzer Center, was embraced by many public school districts across the nation, notably in Chicago, Illinois; Buffalo, New York; Newark, New Jersey; and Washington.
