Arkansas Sheds Much of Critical Race Theory Ban Lawsuit

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Arkansas officials shed claims that they selectively enforced a state law banning certain race- and sex-related topics from classroom instruction when it pulled the Advanced Placement status of an African American studies course.
The Arkansas State Conference of the NAACP alleged in its complaint that the state’s education secretary revoked the AP status to protect students from supposed indoctrination through a left-wing political agenda found in the course curriculum. “Whatever one thinks about the propriety of making AP crediting decisions based on the politics of class curricula, such action is not racial discrimination,” Judge Lee P. Rudofsky of the US …