Terry McAuliffe, Democrat candidate for Governor in Virginia claims CRT never taught in the state. And that claim is disputed by the Virginia Department of Education’s website.
Actually, Virginia’s education department promotes critical race theory. And their website features a presentation urging teachers to “embrace critical race theory.”
Education has taken center stage in McAuliffe’s race with Republican Glenn Youngkin. And Youngin is promising to raise teachers’ salaries and ban CRT from the state.
McAuliffe closes his campaign on Monday with the message that there are too many white teachers in Virginia schools. He wants to reduce the number of white teachers in order to “make everybody feel comfortable.”
CRT never taught in Virginia?
McAuliffe is saying critical race theory is being used by the Republicans to divide people.
“It’s not taught in Virginia and it’s never been taught in Virginia,” McAuliffe said last week. “And as I’ve said this a lot, it’s a dog whistle. It’s racial, it’s division and it’s used by Glenn Youngkin and others, it’s the same thing with Trump and the border wall, to divide people. We should not be dividing people in school.”
