Georgia educators push back against bill restricting how race is taught in classrooms

The head of the Georgia Association of Educators says the group will lobby against a series of GOP-pushed bills that would restrict the way teachers can discuss race, and racism, in classrooms.

One Senate bill — SB 377 — would prohibit K-12 schools and higher institutions from teaching “divisive concepts,” an indirect reference to critical race theory.

That includes telling students that the United States, and the state of Georgia, are “funamentally or systemically racist.” The state Board of Education could even penalize schools that raise those ideas by cutting 10% of annual state funding.