AUSTIN – The Texas Senate is set to vote on a bill Tuesday that would ban critical race theory at public universities. The proposal from Mineola Republican...
Despite this, critical race theory has remained a political target for Texas conservatives. It was a dominant issue during 2021′s session as lawmakers passed bans on teaching CRT in K-12 public classrooms.
Hughes’ proposed law does not name critical race theory explicitly and is far less prescriptive than bans that passed the Legislature in 2021. At a March 23 hearing on the bill, he said that the bill promotes academic freedom and prevents faculty from forcing their beliefs on students. “In higher education, we are exposed to different ideas to grow us and challenge us and help us form our own views and opinions and beliefs,” Hughes said. “This is certainly not an attempt to stifle that.”
Republican lawmakers have derided the theory for being divisive, defining people by their race and teaching hatred of the U.S. Critics of the bill have called it overly broad and believe it will have a chilling effect on academic discourse involving race and equity and that it will more disproportionately affect non-white and LBGTQ professors.
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