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Wrenching struggle to define critical race theory divides an Orange County school district

Theresa Montaño, a professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies at Cal State Northridge who helped craft an early draft of the state’s ethnic studies curriculum, was not surprised to hear that officials couldn’t settle on a definition of critical race theory. School boards looking to ban the concept are often “responding to a body politic that’s attacking critical race theory, but they have no knowledge of what it is,” she said. “Bans have become a means to “attack some of the civil rights gains like ethnic studies, like anti-racist education.”

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-11-24/in-the-confounding-struggle-to-define-critical-race-theory-not-even-the-dictionary-will-suffice

--The Los Angeles Times

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