What You Need to Know:
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Critical Race Theory
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Bill Status: EXPIRED
DE law currently allows for loan repayment for educators that teach in specific areas.
SB99 repays loans of minority teachers simply for being a minority, regardless of where they actually teach. This bill is derived from and influenced by critical race theory.
It assumes that minority teachers are not in a financial position for loan repayment, and fails to consider that white teachers that may have not come from affluent backgrounds are also struggling with student loan debt. The original repayment language simply sought to provide a service to all educators within high needs areas and did not place any sharp focus on one ethnicity. That was where they should have stopped. But of course, they didn’t. 
Bill Status: PASSED
Maternal healthcare is the main subject of the policy this bill seeks to address. It requires that healthcare workers undergo “cultural competency training” to reduce “racial and ethnic disparities.”
Bill Status: PASSED
The purpose of HB 375 is to create a consortium that will “coordinate efforts to identify and remove systemic inequities that impact people of color in this State.”