Texas Senate Passes Bill That Bans Critical Race Theory From Classrooms

School children walk outside Condit Elementary School in Bellaire, outside Houston, Texas, on Dec. 16, 2020. François Picard/AFP via Getty Images

The Texas state Senate passed a bill on May 22 that prohibits schools from mandating the teaching of critical race theory (CRT).

House Bill 3979 doesn’t mention CRT by name, but apparently aims to ban the quasi-Marxist ideology in public and open-enrollment charter schools.