Legislation aims to make teaching CRT in federally funded schools a civil rights violation

Critical race theory would be prohibited at schools receiving federal funding under Rep. Bob Good's proposed legislation.

"What we hope to accomplish is to advance Martin Luther King's principles, which were to judge people by the content of their character and not by the color of their skin," he continued. "We don't believe that race defines a person."

Critical race theory has become a battleground issue in local school districts nationwide. Critics argue that it teaches students to view the world through a racial lens and divides the world into oppressors and the oppressed. Proponents say the theory details the role racism has played in America's history and isn't being taught to younger students.