Last week I testified before the Missouri Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights on the topic of transparency and racial issues in education. The full text of the testimony is here. I was delighted to be invited to testify alongside a variety of peers from a variety of prominent national organizations, including the Manhattan Institute and National Association of Scholars, and a number of other state and national experts.
For those who have followed our work on critical race theory (CRT) and government transparency, my jaundiced view of the former and sanguine view of the latter will come as no surprise. If the government can take your money, it has to tell you where it went, especially if that money is being spent to tell the children of taxpayers that their parents are “oppressors.” As I concluded my remarks:
For both government and the taxpayers themselves, transparency is critical to ensuring tax dollars are being used appropriately so that the public can have confidence in its government. As we seek to form a more perfect union, state and local leaders must be far more transparent about how they handle taxpayer money in all its forms and for all of its purposes, including and especially in our K-12 institutions. I think the future of our country depends on it.
If video of the hearing goes online, I’ll be sure to append a link to this post.
