The Arizona Board of Education will remove language from K–12 curricula and policies that promote progressive racial and gender ideology and violate Civil Rights laws, state Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne said this week.
The move complies with President Donald Trump’s executive order prohibiting DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) practices in education, which also includes preferential hiring based on race; affinity groups organized by race, gender, and religion; and mandatory diversity training.
Critical race theory, “non-racist math”, and LGBT story hours are examples of DEI in student instruction.
Horne said public schools in his state risk losing $866 million in federal funding if these changes aren’t made….