UCLA Law launches project to track attacks on critical race theory
The new database identifies anti-critical race theory activity at local, state and federal levels
Alicia Hawkins | August 2, 2022
The CRT Forward team has screened nearly 24,000 media articles and identified 479 instances ofanti-CRT activitysince August 2021.
Findings include:
–Anti-critical race theory activity is much more pervasive and extensive than generally reported. Although media coverage often focuses on state legislative activity in traditionally conservative states, 49 states have either proposed or enacted anti-CRT activity.
–Most anti-critical race theory proposals have been in Florida, Virginia, Missouri and the U.S. Congress.
–Local school board anti-critical race theory measures make up more than 20%, or 110, of the total activity in the CRT Forward database. California, North Carolina, Florida, Pennsylvania and Virginia have introduced the most anti-critical race theory measures at the local school board level, with California enacting five of the eight proposed measures.
–Nearly half of theactivities tracked in the CRT Forward database rely on concepts from the now-revoked Trump Administration Executive Order 13950, often referred to as the “Equity Gag Order.” Slightly more than half of the anti-critical race theory measures (244 out of 479) in the database use at least one concept.
–The most common enforcement mechanism of these measures is the withholding funding or issuing fines against individual teachers, administrators, schools and entire school districts. Of the anti-critical race theory measures that include enforcement mechanisms, 87% require funds be withheld or fines issued for engaging in prohibited conduct.
–Approximately 94% of the identified anti-critical race theory measures target K-12 and higher education. Eighty-two percent advocate for police teaching in K-12 schools.
link to article → https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/ucla-law-launches-critical-race-theory-forward-project
link to video in article → https://youtu.be/vE6Wfq53dXo
link to database → https://crtforward.law.ucla.edu/