The University of California Los Angeles School of Law has created a database that identifies and records efforts to stop critical race theory being taught in schools throughout the United States.
The database, called the CRT Forward Tracking Project, allows users to “track attacks on critical race theory” and filter the information as part of an effort to “support anti-racist education, training and research,” according to the school.
The project was created by UCLA’s Critical Race Studies Program, founded in 2000 as the first law school program in the nation dedicated to critical race theory.
CRT is, as the school explains, “the study and application of systemic racism in policy, law and society” and suggests that efforts must be made to correct these supposed injustices.
Critics claim that CRT promotes a Marxist worldview, which views all aspects of human life using a racial lens rather than the idea of class struggle.
UCLA Law earlier in the month announced that it will track anti-CRT activities through the national database. This includes all levels of government.
” The project was designed to make people aware of the extent of attacks against the freedom to talk truthfully about race through campaigns against CRT,” stated Taifha Natalee Alexander (project director at CRT Forward) in a statement.
The database analyses these activities to identify where they are occurring and what opponents are doing, including protesting school boards curriculum.
The type of restricted CRT content, like a course taught in a public school or a group targeted, and the enforcement mechanisms used to regulate it, are also included.
For example, in April the Placentia Yorba Linda School Board passed a ban on the use of CRT classrooms. This ended months of deliberation in Orange County.
Fans of the ban claimed that CRT was a divisive ideology and pushes an ideological narrative. The narrow vote by 3-2 votes was a result. According to public comments, other trustees claimed that such attempts amounted tocensorship at the April 5th school board meeting.
The UCLA program claims that many of those who are against these concepts being taught in K-12 schools are using the term CRT “incorrectly,” and have “affected plans to include ethnic studies more broadly for students before they get to college.”