S2834 mandates individuals seeking a teaching certification be trained in "culturally responsive teaching," a movement linked to critical race theory.
The Senate passed S2834 on February 19, 2021 by a vote of 25 to 7. The term "culturally responsive teaching" was coined by Gloria Ladson-Billings, an influential scholar in the field of critical race theory. Culturally responsive teaching is a pedagogical movement derived from and philosophically adjacent to critical race theory. It centers race, ethnicity, and gender in provocative ways, and is a radical and openly politicized "woke" discipline. Far-left political indoctrination does not belong in classrooms.
