Ted Cruz Defends State CRT Bans: ‘Curriculum Is Not Censorship’

In a Tuesday interview with National Review, Senator Ted Cruz addressed the intra-conservative debate over state-level bans on the teaching of radical race and gender ideology in public schools.

While the populist wing of the GOP has enthusiastically embraced state laws banning critical race theory and gender ideology from public school classrooms, some establishment holdouts argue such laws are overly broad and will expose teachers to punitive lawsuits, filed by parents who object to benign curricula.

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In a Tuesday interview with National Review, Senator Ted Cruz addressed the intra-conservative debate over state-level bans on the teaching of radical race and gender ideology in public schools.

While the populist wing of the GOP has enthusiastically embraced state laws banning critical race theory and gender ideology from public school classrooms, some establishment holdouts argue such laws are overly broad and will expose teachers to punitive lawsuits, filed by parents who object to benign curricula.