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Utah Senate passes resolution asking State Board of Education to set CRT-related standards after heated debate
Summary
Senate Resolution 901 passed May 19, 2021 by a 21–6 vote with two absent, urging the Utah State Board of Education to review curriculum standards and exclude three specified concepts (e.g., that one race is inherently superior). The measure prompted extensive floor debate over definition, process and educational scope.
The Utah State Senate on May 19, 2021 passed Senate Resolution 901 (SR901), a nonbinding measure asking the Utah State Board of Education to review curriculum standards related to teaching about race and to ensure certain concepts are excluded from state curriculum standards.
Sponsor Senator Fillmore presented the resolution as an attempt to "turn the temperature down" on a polarized debate and used an extended analogy, calling critical race theory "a gas" to argue the state should create a "container" (standards) so curriculum is consistent and does not…
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