The head of Michigan’s board of education said the state will not be following President Donald Trump’s executive order demanding schools stop teaching radical gender ideology and Critical Race Theory (CRT).
Trump’s Jan. 29 order strips schools that refuse to halt these lessons of federal funding. Michael Rice, superintendent of the Michigan board of education said in an interview with Chalkbeat that his state is committed to teaching the topics in K-12 schools anyway.
“In Michigan, it is unlawful to discriminate against individuals on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity or expression,” Rice said in a letter sent to local school superintendents on Thursday in response to the order. “Neither a presidential executive order nor federal regulations, whether related to federal funding or not, can supersede or otherwise set aside our obligation to comply with a validly enacted state…
