Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing Coppell Independent School District for “illegally teaching woke and hateful critical race theory curriculum,” his office said in a Wednesday press release.
The lawsuit follows an undercover video revealing Coppell school district’s Director of Curriculum and Instruction Evan Whitfield admitting to defying Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s ban on teaching critical race theory, according to the statement.
Conservative watchdog group Accuracy in Media released the footage on Feb. 26.
When asked by an undercover journalist if Abbott’s anti-CRT orders would affect the school’s current curriculum, Whitfield replied, “I don’t think so … We’ve gotten around it by saying, ‘Well, we’re just not teaching that.’”
In a subsequent meeting, Whitfield said, “At the end of the day, can’t the teacher just…
