S2834 mandates individuals seeking a teaching certification be trained in “culturally responsive teaching,” a movement linked to critical race theory.
The Senate passed S2834 on February 19, 2021 by a vote of 25 to 7. We have assigned pluses to the nays because this bill is an attempt to smuggle divisive identity politics into the classroom. The term “culturally responsive teaching” was coined by Gloria Ladson-Billings, an influential scholar in the field of critical race theory. Culturally responsive teaching is a pedagogical movement derived from and philosophically adjacent to critical race theory. It centers race, ethnicity, and gender in provocative ways, and is a radical and openly politicized “woke” discipline.