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Students look on during an assembly at Checotah High School to surprise students with more than $117,000 in new music instruments, a joint gift from Underwood?s C.A.T.S. Foundation and ACM Lifting Lives in Checotah, Okla. on Aug. 28, 2009. Rick Diamond/Getty Images for ACM
The Oklahoma House on Thursday voted to ban public schools and universities from teaching critical race theory in civics and history classes.
After hours of discussion and debate, the GOP-controlled House voted 70-19 in favor of the bill, HB1775, which now heads to Gov. Kevin Stitt’s desk to be signed into law.