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House Education Committee approves bill barring use of ESEA funds to ‘advance radical gender ideology’
Summary
The House Education and Labor Committee voted to report HR 2617, the Say No to Indoctrination Act, after adopting an amendment in the nature of a substitute. The bill would bar use of Elementary and Secondary Education Act funds to teach what the bill drafters called "radical gender ideology." The final committee tally was 18 yeas, 12 nays.
The House Committee on Education and the Workforce on May 20 approved HR 2617, the Say No to Indoctrination Act, advancing the bill to the full House by an 18-12 recorded vote after the committee adopted an amendment in the nature of a substitute.
The bill, introduced by Representative Owens (sponsor), would amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to prohibit the expenditure of ESEA funds to "teach or advance concepts related to gender ideology," language the sponsor said echoed President Trump’s January 20 executive order on gender. "There are only 2 sexes, male and female," Representative Owens said in explaining the amendment in the nature of a…
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