The Michigan House of Representatives on Tuesday voted to pass House Bill (HB) 5097, which aims to block Critical Race Theory from the state’s school curriculum.
The measure, sponsored by Representative Ann Bollin (R-Brighton Township), prohibits any form of race or gender stereotyping in core academic curriculum.
“The radical new approach some are taking to push race and gender stereotypes onto young, impressionable children is wrong,” said Bollin. “Bringing such stereotypes into our classrooms divides kids and falsely teaches them that the color of their skin or their sex matters more than the content of their character.”
The legislation passed the chamber on a vote of 55-0, as Democrats refused to vote on the bill.
“Divisive liberal rhetoric has no place in our schools, and no child should be exposed to the far-left’s attempts to indoctrinate them,” said Eric Ventimiglia, Executive Director for Michigan Rising Action. “By passing HB 5097, Michigan Republicans have sent a firm message to the ‘woke’ mob that they will stand-up and protect our students.”
However, the legislation still faces a long path before becoming law in the state, as it will now head to the Michigan state Senate for its consent.
If approved, Governor Gretchen Whitmer would have the final say on the bill. Recently, Whitmer has vetoed multiple pieces of education legislation passed by Republicans in the state legislature.
One veto struck down a $155 million expenditure to provide reading scholarships for 155,000 students who fell behind during Whitmer’s lockdowns and ban on in-person learning.
Furthermore, the governor rejected Michigan Student Opportunity Accounts, which would allow parents to utilize state dollars as they see fit, by either staying in the traditional government system, enrolling in another option such as a private or virtual school, or receiving additional tutoring or other support.
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Even thou we shared the same office and the same checking accounts, had know idea Hunter was involved with this deal, long before the Biden administration came to be, and President Joe Biden pushed green energy credits in his Build Back Better spending plan this year, “Hunter Biden helped grease the wheels for a Chinese business to buy up key rare-earth minerals used in batteries for electric vehicles”. The New York Times reported Saturday that Hunter Biden was part owner in an investment firm that was involved in a Chinese conglomerate’s $3.8 billion purchase of one of the world’s largest cobalt deposits in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Biden’s spending package passed the House on Friday night and it plans to give away “$320 billion in tax credits for companies or consumers who buy electric vehicles”, purchase solar panels, or invest in improving the energy efficiency of their buildings.Cobalt mines are pivotal to China’s world dominance in making batteries for those electric vehicles the Build Back Better Plan and Democrats are effectively hoisting on the American people through U.S. taxpayer dollars and government subsidies. Unwinding the twisting takes of moves, the Times reported Biden was a founding board member of BHR, which is the Bohai Harvest RST (Shanghai) Equity Investment Fund Management Company. It started up in 2013 while Joe Biden was vice president in former President Barack Obama’s White House. Three Americans including Hunter Biden controlled 30% of BHR, while the rest is owned or controlled by Chinese investors, including Bank of China, the Times reported from Chinese regulators’ records. BHR helped finance an Australian coal-mining company controlled by a “Chinese state-owned firm”, and also assisted a subsidiary of a Chinese defense conglomerate in buying a Michigan auto parts maker. This has nothing to do with me pushing for battery operasted vehicles at GM and other places etc.nor my”business friendship with China” and that pot of gold Hunter is holding for tought times for the biden family.We are not at war with the energy industry in the United States just those who won’t use our Chinese Batteries.