CRITICAL RACE THEORY:❎

Opposition to critical race theory

In August and December 2021, New York Republican lawmakers introduced bills that prevent public schools from providing instruction on structural racism, white guilt, and the elusiveness of meritocracy.

DIVERSITY, EQUITY, & INCLUSION:️❗

The Board of Regents, which sets education policy in New York, released a lengthy statement in May 2021 that encourages — but doesn’t mandate — districts to embrace various diversity, equity, and inclusion policies, including teaching culturally responsive lessons to students. The board wants districts to consider “acknowledging the role that racism and bigotry have played, and continue to play, in the American story” in their lessons, and create a framework that affirms different cultural identities and empowers students to “be agents of social change.”