The move to block the teaching of racism and related subjects harkens back to an executive order former President Donald Trump issued last fall. It banned federal grant recipients from promoting such topics. Higher ed leaders roundly criticized the order, and it led to several schools pausing diversity training efforts while they determined how it would affect their operations.
A federal judge shot the order down in December, and President Joe Biden’s administration later revoked it.
Yet the order’s tenets have appeared in many bills from Republican legislators nationwide, some of which have already been signed into law.
