AUSTIN, Texas – The Texas Senate is set to vote on a bill Tuesday that would ban critical race theory at public universities.
The proposal from Mineola Republican Bryan Hughes is part of a slate of higher education bills in the Senate that are among Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick’s top priorities during this legislative session. Other bills include eliminating tenure at public universities and prohibiting colleges from maintaining diversity, equity and inclusion offices – also known as DEI.
Critical race theory – or CRT – is an academic philosophy that examines laws, government policies and structures under a lens of systematic racism. The ideas of the intellectual framework have existed since the 1960s and were never taught in an official sense at public K-12 schools.
