Trump Says He Will Defund Schools If They Add 1619 Slavery Project To Curriculum
Donald Trump is trying to block California schools to incorporate a curriculum based on the controversial New York Times 1619 Project.
In his latest move, President Trump said Sunday that the Department of Education is investigating the use of the New York Times Magazine’s 1619 Project in schools, and warned that institutions that teach this alternative narrative of American history could possibly lose federal funding. The project published last year seeks to reframe American history as starting on 1619, when the first slaves from Africa arrived to Virginia, rather than 1776 when the founding fathers declared independence from Britain.
Trump tweeted on Sunday that the “Department of Education is looking at this. If so, they will not be funded!” While doing that, he linked to a post that said California had implemented the 1619 program.
“Please report any sightings so we can quickly extinguish!” he tweeted. The White House has issued a directive to all federal agencies to identify and cancel any contracts or programmes in which the subject is taught, calling it “propaganda” that is “contrary to all we stand for as Americans.”
In a statement, author Nikole Hannah-Jones, called the project “a racially divisive, revisionist account of history that denies the noble principles of freedom and equality on which our nation was founded.”
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