Paxton accused a district administrator of talking about how the district has gotten around prohibitions against the use of CRT.
COPPELL, Texas — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against Coppell ISD, accusing them of illegally teaching critical race theory (CRT).
The Attorney General’s Office said the lawsuit was filed after a video was published reportedly showing Coppell ISD’s Director of Curriculum and Instruction talking about how the district had “gotten around” state prohibitions against the use of CRT “by saying we’re not teaching [CRT].”
According to the Attorney General’s Office, the director also talked about using Next Generation Science Standards curriculum. Texas is one of six states which doesn’t use the standards to guide its curriculum, which emphasize the reality and severity of climate change, that it’s caused by humans, and can be mitigated by taking action to reduce greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. The state rejected these standards due to concerns over its environmental education content.
“Liberal administrators who want to ignore state law and unlawfully push divisive and racist CRT curriculum in classrooms will be held responsible for their actions,” Paxton said in a statement. “Texas children deserve to receive the best education in the world, not have woke ideology forced upon them. My lawsuit aims to put an immediate end to this illegal and hateful curriculum and immediately stop the blatant refusal to follow state law by certain officials at Coppell ISD.”
WFAA has reached out to Coppell ISD for comment but has not heard back as of Wednesday afternoon.
