The New Hampshire House has advanced a sweeping education bill named in honor of slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk, intensifying the national debate over ideological content in public classrooms.
According to One America News, lawmakers on Thursday approved the CHARLIE Act formally titled the Countering Hate and Revolutionary Leftist Indoctrination in Education Act by a 184164 margin. The legislation, also known as House Bill 1792, seeks to regulate how race, history, and LGBTQ+ issues are presented in the states public schools.
Supporters say the bill is designed to halt what they describe as systemic left-wing indoctrination in taxpayer-funded classrooms. The measure would prohibit critical theories or related practices that promote division, dialectical worldviews, critical consciousness, or anti-constitutional indoctrination, echoing Kirks long-standing campaign to curb progressive influence in education and to restore parental and community authority over curricula.
Republican leaders argue that the legislation is a necessary response to ideological overreach by educators and activist bureaucrats. Right now, in schools that you and I fund with our tax dollars, children are being subjected to critical race theory and radical gender ideology, not as mere topics of discussion, but as doctrine, as gospel, as the very price of admission to participation in public education, Representative Jason Osborne (R-N.H.), the House majority leader stated.
Democrats, however, are lining up against the bill, portraying it as an attack on teachers and a vehicle for censorship that will not withstand legal scrutiny. Teachers in New Hampshire are not indoctrinating students into Marxism or any other political ideology, said Representative Loren Selig (D-N.H.). It will create expensive lawsuits, not better schools.
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