Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton launched a lawsuit today targeting a school district he says is illegally teaching critical race theory. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images/AP/Tony Gutierrez)
Teaching CRT violates a Texas law that prohibits educators from kindergarten through twelfth grade from teaching that "one race or sex is inherently superior to another race or sex" or that "an individual, by virtue of the individual's race or sex, is inherently racist, sexist, or oppressive."
The same law also stipulates that no educator in the state can require an understanding of the "1619 Project," a historical study founded by New York Times writer Nikole Hannah-Jones that attempts to reframe American history as being founded and rooted in slavery. The project has been marred with credible accusations of historical distortions and inaccuracies.
Texas law stipulates that an educator cannot teach that any person, because of their race or sex, bears responsibility, blame, or guilt for actions committed in the past.
The law also prohibits teachers from imposing the idea that meritocracy or traits such as a hard work ethic are racist or sexist or that the advent of slavery in America constituted the true founding of the United States, concepts commonly associated with the 1619 Project.
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The exterior of the Texas State Capitol is seen on September 05, 2023 in Austin, Texas. (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images) (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)
This is not the first time Coppell ISD has been sued for illegally teaching CRT.
The Texas Scorecard, a Texas-based conservative outlet, reported in 2023 that a North Texas family sued Coppell ISD after their 10th-grade son who was a student at New Tech High School in Coppell ISD, was given a CRT-based assignment by his chemistry teacher. According to the Texas Scorecard the teacher stipulated that students "research and write about diverse atomic theory scientists" and they could not choose an "old, dead, white guy."
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Commenting on his lawsuit, Paxton said that "Texas children deserve to receive the best education in the world, not have woke ideology forced upon them."
"Liberal administrators who want to ignore state law and unlawfully push divisive and racist CRT curriculum in classrooms will be held responsible for their actions," said Paxton. "My lawsuit aims to put an immediate end to this illegal and hateful curriculum and immediately stop the blatant refusal to follow state law by certain officials at Coppell ISD."
Peter Pinedo is a politics writer for Fox News Digital.
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