Critical race theory concerns played a role in a Florida school district cancelling a civil rights lecture.
Summary
- MIAMI — A Florida school district canceled a professor’s civil rights history seminar for teachers, citing in part concerns over “critical race theory” — even though his lecture had nothing to do with the topic.
- DeSantis also wants to empower parents to sue schools that teach critical race theory.
- “Critical Race Theory and factual history are two different things.
- Butler said he hadn’t shared his full presentation with the school district.
- Butler said a council employee also informed him that local administrators felt the topic had set off CRT “red flags” at the school district.