GOP governors crack down on critical race theory: 'Not going to teach ... one race is superior to another'

Republican governors advocate for parents' role in education.

"It’s a page and a half," Stitt said of his order. "I don’t know how you could argue with it. It simply says that we’re not going to teach in Oklahoma that one sex or one race is superior to another race. And we’re not going to teach a first-grader in Oklahoma that they’re somehow responsible for something that happened 100 years ago. It’s really a commonsense approach to us. But it does say in the bill that we will teach Oklahoma academic standards, we will teach history. We’re just not going to get into the race-baiting stuff."

The fight over education was a hot topic last year as advocates exposed the use of CRT, which teaches that U.S. institutions are inherently racist. The curriculum fired parents up across the country, particularly in Virginia, where the issue was arguably the largest factor in Republican Glenn Youngkin's win. His opponent, former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, D., irked voters after saying during a debate, 'I don't think parents should be telling schools what they should teach." Parents confronted local school boards throughout the state to demand to know what their kids were learning.