A “letter of intent” from South Dakota’s Joint Committee on Appropriations (JCA) has informed state education bureaucrats they should refrain from applying for federal grants to teach U.S. history or civics until after the legislature can review these topics in its next session.
Education policy analyst Stanley Kurtz held up the move, to use the “letter of intent” to warn the state’s education department not to move ahead with federal history and civics grants without input from the legislature, as a “new tool” and a “model” for other states to prevent Democrats from forcing Critical Race Theory and “action civics” curricula on school districts throughout the country.