{"id":10238,"date":"2022-03-18T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-18T07:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=10238"},"modified":"2022-03-17T20:18:42","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T02:18:42","slug":"state-cant-force-adoption-of-critical-race-theory-concepts-in-curriculum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=10238","title":{"rendered":"State Can\u2019t Force Adoption of Critical Race Theory Concepts in Curriculum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/will-law.org\/will-to-cedarburg-school-district-state-cant-force-adoption-of-critical-race-theory-concepts-in-curriculum\/\">WILL<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Local activists attempting to force district into curriculum changes<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The News:&nbsp;<\/strong>Attorneys at the Wisconsin Institute for Law &amp; Liberty (WILL) issued a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/will-law.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Cedarburg-Curriculum-Letter-FINAL-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">letter<\/a>&nbsp;to the Cedarburg School District making clear that the district is not legally required to adopt Critical Race Theory concepts in their curriculum, nor can the Wisconsin Department of Instruction (DPI) legally mandate the school district to adopt Critical Race Theory concepts in their curriculum. The Cedarburg School District recently investigated a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/will-law.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Cedarburg-Original-Complaint-to-District-07.14.21.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">complaint<\/a>&nbsp;from a local group alleging that its curriculum violates state and federal law and found no violations. That group has now made an appeal to DPI suggesting Cedarburg\u2019s curriculum is not \u201cdiverse and representative.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Quote:<\/strong> WILL Deputy Counsel, Dan Lennington, said, \u201cCedarburg should not be intimidated into adopting controversial and politicized curriculum as a result of vague and unsubstantiated charges made by a local activist group. And any attempt by the state to force curriculum changes would be inappropriate, unwarranted, and likely illegal.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WILL: Local activists attempting to force district into curriculum changes The News:&nbsp;Attorneys at the Wisconsin Institute for Law &amp; Liberty (WILL) issued a&nbsp;letter&nbsp;to the Cedarburg School District making clear that the district is not legally required to adopt Critical Race Theory concepts in their curriculum, nor can the Wisconsin Department of Instruction (DPI) legally mandate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10238"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10239,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10238\/revisions\/10239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}