Josh Hawley: Strip Schools of Federal Funds if They Teach Founding Documents Are Racist

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) on Monday introduced the “Love America Act,” designed to combat Critical Race Theory in classrooms, in part by prohibiting federal funding to schools where founding texts of the United States are taught as products of white supremacy and racism.

According to Hawley’s office, the bill is designed to “promote patriotism in education and fight back against the spread of anti-American, critical race theory classes in K-12 education.”

The bill would specifically prohibit federal funding for “educational agencies and schools whose students do not read certain foundational texts of...