Beginning next school year, Tennessee teachers will have to restrict their instruction on race and racism under newly passed legislation that’s likely to become law.
Gov. Bill Lee is expected to sign the bill that passed along partisan lines during the last week of the legislative session for Tennessee’s GOP-controlled General Assembly.
The legislation allows the state education commissioner to withhold funds from schools and districts where teachers promote certain concepts about racism, sexism, bias, and other social issues that are part of the nation’s history.
Among concepts that teachers will be unable to discuss: that one race bears responsibility for the past actions against another; the United States is fundamentally racist; and a person is inherently privileged or oppressive due to their race.
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