Texas Republicans in the State Senate passed a bill that would eliminate the requirement that made public schools teach that the Ku Klux Klan and white supremacy were “morally wrong.” Senate Bill 3 blocks schools from teaching about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, work from United Farm Workers leader Cesar Chavez, Susan B. Anthony’s writings about the women’s suffragists movement and Native American history, HuffPost reported. It also bans the teaching of the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1619 project. The bill passed 18 to 4 in the Senate but will most likely stall in the GOP-led House because they lack a quorum for […]
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