Four months after the death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, the arrival of House Republicans’ CHARLIE Act in January quickly drew attention.
Officially named the “Countering Hate And Revolutionary Leftist Indoctrination in Education (CHARLIE) Act,” the state bill paid homage to Kirk, the conservative activist assassinated at a rally in September. And it sought to regulate instruction on some of Kirk’s longtime foes, proposing to bar New Hampshire educators from advocating for an “intersectionality framework,” “critical race theory,” “LGBTQ+ ideology,” and anything else that might frame society “through lenses of inherent oppression.”
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