The Oklahoma State Board of Education on Monday voted to approve emergency rules that would suspend the teaching licenses of teachers who promote discriminatory elements of critical race and gender theories.
The board meeting was meant to provide specific and formal guidance that would help schools navigate the upcoming 2021–22 academic year, in the wake of a new law that bans the teaching that one race is superior to another, or that an individual is “inherently racist, sexist or oppressive” because of one’s race or sex.
