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Post-secondary CRT Ban Clears Assembly Committee
By Wisconsin School Administrators Alliance staff | December 9, 2021
From WisPolitics.com …
Dems say a Republican-backed bill to ban race and sex stereotyping in instruction or training provided to students or employees in UW System schools and Wisconsin technical colleges would limit free speech and academic freedom.Republicans in an Assembly Colleges and Universities Committee hearing today in a 10-4 party line vote approved AB 413, which would ban teaching students and employees that one race or sex is inherently superior to another race or sex. It would also ban teaching that an individual, by virtue of the individual’s race or sex, bears responsibility for acts committed in the past by other individuals of the same race or sex.The bill is now ready to be scheduled for a floor vote.Committee Chair Rep. David Murphy, R-Greenville, argued the bill doesn’t prohibit teaching about past racism, but it does say to students “I’m not guilty just because I’m white for past transgressions.”“I’d like to think that those kids, those young people and those kids, can grow up not feeling like they are to blame for every problem just because of their skin color,” he said.But Rep. Katrina Shankland, D-Madison, said Republicans who support the bill have a list of terms they want to ban from schools. She was referring to GOP Rep. Chuck Wichgers’ list from earlier this year detailing terms he believed similar legislation would ban. Gov. Tony Evers vetoed that bill.“If we’re going to speak an oath to the constitution when we are inaugurated every year, then we should at least vote according to that oath,” Shankland said.See more on the bill here.
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