{"id":564186,"date":"2021-06-15T09:51:12","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T13:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=564186"},"modified":"2021-06-15T09:51:17","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T13:51:17","slug":"republicans-move-to-strip-funding-from-schools-that-use-1619-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republicans-move-to-strip-funding-from-schools-that-use-1619-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans Move To Strip Funding From Schools That Use 1619 Project"},"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%2Frepublicans-move-to-strip-funding-from-schools-that-use-1619-project%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=564186&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\/06\/tom-cotton-scaled-e1623762924375.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Republicans in the House and the Senate introduced a bill that would remove some federal funding from schools that use the 1619 Project curriculum.<\/p>\n<p>The bill, the Saving American History Act, was introduced by Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton and Colorado Rep. Ken Buck Monday. Cotton <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cotton.senate.gov\/news\/press-releases\/cotton-mcconnell-colleagues-introduce-bill-to-defund-1619-project-curriculum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">first<\/a> introduced the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/07\/23\/tom-cotton-1619-project-schools\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">bill<\/a> in 2020, during the last Congress. <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/22\/cotton-secure-campus-china-spying\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>(RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: Sen. Cotton To Re-Introduce Bill Cracking Down On Chinese Spying In American Universities)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"9.7507886435331\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Activists in schools want to teach our kids to hate America and hate each other using discredited, Critical Race Theory curricula like the 1619 Project. Federal funds should not pay for activists to masquerade as teachers and indoctrinate our youth.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ytnLjAHjd5\">https:\/\/t.co\/ytnLjAHjd5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tom Cotton (@SenTomCotton) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenTomCotton\/status\/1404456729119805453?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 14, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cotton.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/1619_bill.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">bill<\/a> would create a formula to determine how much time schools spent teaching the 1619 Project curriculum, and deduct a proportional amount from the federal funds they receive. It would not deduct money from free and reduced lunch programs or special education initiatives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cActivists in schools want to teach our kids to hate America and hate each other using discredited, Critical Race Theory curricula like the 1619 Project. Federal funds should not pay for activists to masquerade as teachers and indoctrinate our youth,\u201d Cotton <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cotton.senate.gov\/news\/press-releases\/cotton-mcconnell-colleagues-introduce-bill-to-defund-1619-project-curriculum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a> in a press release.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"il\">Critical<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Race<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Theory<\/span> (CRT) holds that America is fundamentally racist, yet it teaches students to view every social interaction and person in terms of <span class=\"il\">race<\/span>. Its adherents pursue \u201cantiracism\u201d through the end of merit, objective truth and the adoption of\u00a0<span class=\"il\">race<\/span>-based policies.<span><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cDebunked activist propaganda that seeks to divide has no place in American classrooms and no right to taxpayer funding,\u201d Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who is co-sponsoring the legislation, added.<\/p>\n<p>Historians on both the left and the right have heavily criticized the 1619 Project\u2019s main argument, that the introduction of slavery to the American colonies in 1619 constitutes the United States\u2019 true founding.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNone of the leading scholars of the whole period from the Revolution to the Civil War\u201d were consulted for the project, Brown University professor Gordon Wood <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2019\/11\/30\/historians-new-york-times-1619\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">noted<\/a> in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2019\/11\/28\/wood-n28.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">interview<\/a> with the World Socialist Web Site.<\/p>\n<p>Phil Magness, an economist and economic historian at the American Institute for Economic Research, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aier.org\/article\/the-case-for-retracting-matthew-desmonds-1619-project-essay\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">claims<\/a> that an essay arguing that slavery was a key driver of American capitalism \u201cadvances an explicit anti-capitalist political message that\u2019s rooted in a fundamental misreading of economic history\u201d and employs \u201clong-discredited piece of pro-slavery propaganda from the Confederate era.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans in the House and the Senate introduced a bill that would remove some federal funding from schools that use the 1619 Project curriculum.The bill, the Saving American History Act, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2280303,"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\/06\/tom-cotton-scaled-e1623762924375.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Republicans Move To Strip Funding From Schools That Use 1619 Project","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-564186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/tom-cotton-scaled-e1623762924375.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Republicans Move To Strip Funding From Schools That Use 1619 Project","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564186","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=564186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2280303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}