State officials removed the committee’s many references to “diverse groups,” the words “diversity,” “equity” and mentions of Latinos, refugees and people who identify as LGBT or disabled, according to New Orleans Public Radio’s review of the documents. While the state added explicit events like the murder of Emmett Till, the Tulsa Race Massacre and the Tuskegee Experiment, committee members said the state’s deletions are far more significant.
“We did not shy away from any of the events in the course of our country or our state’s history, and we wanted to be really inclusive of our students knowing these things,” Brumley said. As a result, additional content has been added concerning slavery, civil rights and Black history more generally. The approved standards are far more detailed and specific, which Brumley said sets clear and rigorous goals for students and teachers. Louisiana's BESE approves social studies standards after 14-month process, CRT concerns The state’s standards, which differ significantly from the committee’s in content, language and approach, were advanced to the state's board of education last month and approved unanimously despite committee pushback.
In response, State Superintendent of Education Cade Brumley and other officials rewrote the educator-drafted standards “to ensure none were CRT-based,” without acknowledging that critical race theory wasn’t in the document to begin with. Critical race theory, or CRT, has never been a part of Louisiana’s K-12 social studies standards, nor were there plans to add the abstract academic concept during the state’s recent rewrite, according to members of its steering committee.ĭespite these established facts, the task of removing “embedded” critical race theory from the committee’s final draft became state officials’ focus after hundreds of people submitted comments complaining the standards cast American history in an overly negative light and could be used to indoctrinate students.
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