Top New Hampshire Democrats and teachers union leaders backed HB61 to repeal the 2021 anti-discrimination law that bars race-based instruction such as Critical Race Theory, NH Journal reported. A related union lawsuit was allowed to proceed to discovery the same day.
The report described the strategy behind the push, according to NH Journal.
Granite State Democrats and their progressive allies have launched a two-pronged strategy to get race-based instruction like Critical Race Theory back into New Hampshire classrooms.
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It outlined what the existing law covers and who signed it into effect.
Curriculum like CRT, based on the premise that members of one race are uniquely flawed or inherently racist, violates an anti-discrimination law passed by the GOP-controlled legislature and signed by Gov. Chris Sununu in 2021.
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Lawmakers and union leaders spoke up for the repeal effort at the State House.
Top Democrats and leaders of the state’s teachers unions spoke out Thursday on behalf of HB61.
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Later that day, a federal judge cleared the union lawsuit to advance, NH Journal reported.
Later that day, U.S. District Court Judge Paul Barbadoro ruled a lawsuit filed by the state’s two largest teachers unions challenging the law can move forward to the discovery phase.
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Backers of the repeal argued the law leaves teachers unsure of what they may teach.
He repeated the critique made both in the legislature and in court that the law is too vague and teachers are uncertain about what content they are allowed to teach.
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The NH Journal report countered that the law’s text imposes no such restrictions on teaching history.
In fact, the law — which can be read in its entirety here — does not apply any restrictions on descriptions of any organizations, from the Ku Klux Klan to the N
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