Trump orders effort to defund schools that teach critical race theory
Trump signed an executive order Wednesday aimed at creating legislation to cut federal funding to schools that teach “radical gender ideology and critical race theory.”
The order calls for the secretary of education, as well as the defense secretary for DOD-run schools, to “provide a strategy to the President for how to end indoctrination in K-12 education” within 90 days of the order being signed.
Critical race theory is a study in academia based on the concepts of systemic and institutional racism. Systemic racism refers to how the government has discriminated against Black, indigenous and other people of color through unjust policies concerning housing, employment, criminal justice, education and more.
Academic experts say critical race theory is not what is being taught in K-12 education curriculums.
-ABC News' Kelsey Walsh