CRT 'not promoted' by district

The teaching of Critical Race Theory (CRT) hasn’t been outright banned by Carbon County School District No. 2 (CCSD2).

Instead, a resolution passed by the CCSD2 Board of Trustees on October 18 states neither teachers nor staff within the district will promote CRT “or similar ideologies”. The unanimous passage of the resolution comes one month after the board discussed the topic during a September 20 work session at Saratoga Elementary School.

CRT, which began as a legal framework in the 1970s, went largely unnoticed until recently and has become just one of multiple fronts in the ongoing ‘cult...