The idea of teaching critical race theory has become a contentious issue. Florida, Oklahoma, Texas, and a handful of other states have banned the teaching of critical race theory in K-12 classrooms in ...

Critical race theory was developed by Derrick Bell and other legal scholars in the 1970s and ’80s in part to explain how racism is embedded in legal systems and policies. But in recent years, a ...

More than 12 states have rejected the teaching of critical race theory in K–12 schools. The theory’s philosophical convictions favor racial preferences and the dismantling of America’s representative ...

WASHINGTON — President Trump is ordering U.S. schools to stop teaching what he views as “critical race theory” and other material dealing with race and sexuality or risk losing their federal money. A ...

President Trump’s recent executive order promising to strip federal funding from public K-12 schools that teach what he called critical race theory could have broad-reaching implications for education ...

An appeals court has issued a temporary injunction, ordering the Temecula school district to halt its ban on critical race theory. The court said the district’s policy is unconstitutionally vague and ...