Biden’s Education Department buried in an avalanche of complaints about plans to fund ‘1619 Project’

The Education Department has been inundated with thousands of complaints about its plan to encourage schools to teach a race-based view of American history that opponents say is both inaccurate and racially divisive.

The lion’s share of the more than 35,000 comments opposed the idea when the Biden administration last month invited input on proposed grants to K-12 schools that focus on slavery and racism as the defining characteristic of the American experience, a curriculum known as critical race theory.

Spurring outrage, in particular, was the department’s mention of the New York Times’ “The 1619 Project” as an example of what the Biden administration wants to see more of in civics classes.

The project, which reframed U.S. history around slavery and racism, has become a flashpoint in a political fight over racial justice, cancel culture and what American children are taught about their country.