The bill, H 377, was passed largely along party lines by 27–8. One Republican, Sen. Dan Johnson, followed Democrats in rejecting the bill.
The bill mandates that no public schools “shall direct or otherwise compel students to personally affirm, adopt, or adhere to” critical race theory or similar tenets, such as “that individuals, by virtue of sex, race, ethnicity, religion, color, or national origin, are inherently responsible for actions committed in the past by other members of the same sex, race, ethnicity, religion, color, or national origin.”
The legislation further orders that no money should be expended by the state board of education and public schools for anything banned by it.
Presented on April 21 and passed in the state House the following day, it now goes to Gov. Brad Little’s office for approval after moving through the Senate.
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According to Idaho’s law, the governor can pass the bill by signing it into law or allow the bill to become law by not signing it within the five days allowed.
When asked whether Little will sign the bill, his office simply replied that the governor generally does not comment on pending legislation.
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About 100 high school and college students demonstrated on the steps of the Capitol Building on Monday when the state senate was discussing the bill. Students insisted that the bill was government censorship, and the legislature didn’t give them an opportunity to voice their views.
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Senate education committee chairman Steven Thayn, a Republican, announced that no topic or book was banned in the bill, reported the Post Register.
“It doesn’t ban anything. What it says is that it cannot compel students to adopt or adhere to certain principles. … Critical race theory tends to undermine the thesis that each of us [is] responsible for our actions,” They said.
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Earlier this month, Idaho Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin gathered a task force to “protect our young people from the scourge of critical race theory, socialism, communism, and Marxism.”
“We need to look at what Florida, Arkansas, and North Carolina are doing to combat these poisonous theories,” McGeachin stated back then.
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis recently condemned critical race theory as unsubstantiated and hateful.
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“There’s no room in our classrooms for things like critical race theory,” he stated. “Teaching kids to hate their country and to hate each other is not worth one red cent of taxpayer money.”
Arkansas, North Carolina, New Hampshire, West Virginia, Texas, and Iowa have presented similar proposals to push against the critical race theory.
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