{"id":525253,"date":"2021-05-19T10:51:11","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T14:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=525253"},"modified":"2021-05-19T10:51:14","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T14:51:14","slug":"utah-legislature-moves-to-ban-critical-race-theory-from-public-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/utah-legislature-moves-to-ban-critical-race-theory-from-public-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Utah Legislature Moves To Ban Critical Race Theory From Public Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Futah-legislature-moves-to-ban-critical-race-theory-from-public-schools%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=525253&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-548929059-1200x800-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Utah has become the latest state to start the process of banning critical race theory (CRT) from being taught in public schools, with the state\u2019s Speaker of the House convening an extraordinary session of the State House of Representatives to discuss the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Utah House Speaker Brad R. Wilson sent a letter to legislatures on Tuesday, telling them to return to the state house on Wednesday to discuss two bills: A resolution to support Second Amendment rights for Utah citizens and another to urge the Utah State Board of Education to ban critical race theory from public schools.<\/p>\n<p>Christopher Rufo, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, first <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realchrisrufo\/status\/1394969576769720330?s=11\">reported<\/a> Wilson\u2019s letter, posting a copy on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[S]ince the adjournment of the 2021 General Session of the Sixty-fourth Legislature of the State of Utah, matters have arisen that require the immediate attention of the House of Representatives,\u201d Wilson wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The first item to be discussed is \u201ca resolution that identifies the need for support in Utah statutes of the Second Amendment rights of Utah citizens and encourages continued discussion of how to strengthen state statutes, including discussion of designating Utah as a sanctuary state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Designating Utah as a sanctuary state would signal that it would oppose gun-control measures imposed by the federal government, similar to the way many Democrat-run cities have declared themselves Sanctuary Cities by saying they would openly flout federal immigration laws.<\/p>\n<p>The second measure to be discussed Wednesday in the Utah legislature is \u201ca resolution that strongly recommends that the Utah State Board of Education review standards for curriculum and prohibit the inclusion of critical race theory in curriculum.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As The Daily Wire has reported, multiple states have made similar moves to keep critical race theory out of schools. As Chrissy Clark recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/as-tennessee-bans-critical-race-theory-educators-alternate-between-pledging-to-break-law-and-denying-crt-was-ever-in-schools\">reported<\/a>, educators have tried to conceal critical race theory by leaving the term and some of its associated phrases out of curriculum, but the central theory \u2013 that America is irredeemably racist and every interaction should be viewed through the lens of a racial power struggle \u2013 remains.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course, curriculum designers do not insert the words \u2018critical race theory\u2019 in children\u2019s curriculum \u2014 they put it into practice by generating lessons that introduce racial grievances and calls for advocacy in virtually every subject,\u201d Clark wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Other states have moved to ban the theory as well, with the Tennessee State House passing a bill that would ban critical race theory. Idaho\u2019s Republican governor signed such a ban into law, and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, also a Republican, instructed the state education department to ban critical race theory from public schools. As The Daily Wire reported:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"9\">\n<p><em>DeSantis updated the public on his state\u2019s new educational priorities in a press conference. The governor said that the state\u2019s civic education should focus on \u201cfoundational principles\u201d rather than narratives such as critical race theory that views all of history through the lens of race, and suggests that racism still infects almost every institution in the U.S. today.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Utah has become the latest state to start the process of banning critical race theory (CRT) from being taught in public schools, with the state\u2019s Speaker of the House convening &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2278539,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-548929059-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Utah Legislature Moves To Ban Critical Race Theory From Public Schools","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-525253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-548929059-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Utah Legislature Moves To Ban Critical Race Theory From Public Schools","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2278539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}