Republican Congressman Jim Banks of Indiana, who sits on the House’s Education and Labor Committee, called her appointment a ‘slap in the face.’
‘The Biden administration claims CRT doesn’t exist, then appoints a CRT activist to the Department of Education and sics the FBI on parents who oppose their poisonous ideology,’ Banks told DailyMail.com.
‘The backlash against CRT started because Democrats are obsessed with inserting politics in the classroom, where it doesn’t belong. Appointing a political activist to an agency that’s responsible for kids’ education is a slap in the face to parents across the country.’

Biden DOE pick is a Critical Race Theory activist who …
By Elizabeth Elkind, Politics Reporter For Dailymail.Com
Published: 11:51 EDT, 6 October 2021
‘The Biden administration claims CRT doesn’t exist, then appoints a CRT activist to the Department of Education and sics the FBI on parents who oppose their poisonous ideology,’ Banks told …
Senator Roger Marshall of Kansas said Biden’s decision was ‘shocking but not surprising.’
‘At a time when President Biden’s Justice Department is targeting school parents for simply voicing their concerns and objection to the teaching of radical curriculum in our nation’s schools, it is shocking, but not surprising, that they’ve moved to confirm another CRT advocate to a high rank within the Department of Education,’ he said.
Biden Criminalizes CRT Dissent
The administration has mobilized the FBI against parents who oppose critical race theory.
In an official memo, Attorney General Merrick Garland has pledged to mobilize the FBI against parents protesting critical race theory in public schools, citing unspecified “threats of violence” against school officials.