Public schools that teach what critics say is a “revisionist account of history” will pay the price, President Donald Trump said Sunday.
Trump slammed the 1619 Project — an effort by The New York Times to link all of American history to the arrival of African slaves in the then-colony of Virginia in 1619.
The Pulitzer Center later released a curriculum based on the project, according to Fox News.
Responding to a tweet about California’s alleged use of the 1619 Project in its schools, Trump fired back: “Department of Education is looking at this. If so, they will not be funded!”
Earlier this year, Republican Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas proposed a bill that would impose fiscal penalties on public school districts that use the 1619 Project curriculum. --->READ MORE HERE
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President Trump on Monday defended his threat to defund schools using the 1619 Project curriculum, which reframes U.S. history around the arrival of the first enslaved Africans, calling it “revisionist history.”
“I want everybody to know everything they can about our history,” Mr. Trump said at a White House press conference. “I’m not a believer in cancel culture, the good or the bad. If you don’t study the bad, it can happen again. So I do want that subject studied very, very carefully and very accurately.”
At the same time, he said, “we grew up with a certain history and now they’re trying to change our history. Revisionist history.”
“That’s why they want to take down our monuments, that’s why they want to take down our statues.”
Mr. Trump tweeted Sunday that the Education Department would investigate schools using the 1619 Project curriculum, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning 2019 New York Times Magazine series led by Nikole Hannah-Jones and developed in conjunction with the Pulitzer Center. --->READ MORE HEREFollow link below to a related story:
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