Texas Senate Passes ‘Anti-Civics’ Bill That Removes Lessons About MLK, Cesar Chavez and the Ku Klux Klan

Senate Bill 3, which passed last Friday 18-4, is a new political low for the Republican-dominated state Senate. The legislation would expand recently passed restrictions on social studies courses in public grade schools and serves as the latest GOP push to restrict the teaching of critical race theory. During the regular legislative session that ended…