South Carolina Legislation to Prohibit Discriminatory Teaching in K–12 Classrooms Advances

Opponents of the academic doctrine known as critical race theory protest outside of the Loudoun County School Board headquarters in Ashburn, Va., on June 22, 2021. Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters

Legislation in South Carolina that would prohibit the teaching of critical race theory (CRT) in K–12 classrooms was approved by the state’s House of Representatives on April 21.

House Bill 5183, or the South Carolina Transparency and Integrity in Education Act, seeks to prevent “ideological and viewpoint biases” from being presented as fact instead of theory while maintaining “complete histories of South Carolina and the United States.”