House Judiciary Panel Probes SPLC's K-12 Influence After DOJ Indictment

2 articles · Updated · Fox News · May 25

A House Judiciary Committee hearing put the Southern Poverty Law Center's role in civil rights policy and K-12 education under scrutiny after a recent DOJ indictment of the nonprofit.
Rep. Wesley Hunt used the session to accuse the SPLC of funding White supremacist groups and of shaping school materials through its Learning for Justice program, formerly Teaching Tolerance.
The report says the group's reach is hard to quantify because districts use its content in lessons, curricula and racial-justice resources, while teachers may also deploy it informally in classrooms.
That influence extends beyond district materials into social-emotional learning programs such as Second Step, Panorama Education and Yale's RULER, which together serve tens of thousands of districts.
The hearing itself is not expected to produce major new findings, but it broadens political pressure on the SPLC and could intensify calls for districts to review or remove its materials.

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