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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis campaigns for re-election during a rally on November 7, 2022. Eva Marie Uzcategui/AFP via Getty Images

January 18, 2023

Florida Gov. DeSantis leads the GOP’s national charge against public education that includes lessons on race and sexual orientation

Jonathan Feingold, Boston University

The GOP leadership renewed its pledge to resist public education that includes painful discussions on race and racism in America.

An even mix of proponents and opponents to teaching critical race theory attend a Placentia-Yorba Linda school board meeting in California. Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

November 30, 2021

What the public doesn’t get: Anti‑CRT lawmakers are passing pro‑CRT laws

Jonathan Feingold, Boston University

Critical race theory is often distorted by GOP politicians and pundits to stir up its Trump base. But CRT is needed more, not less, argues one legal scholar, to explain American racial disparities.

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