Senator Ted Cruz (R-Quintana Roo) harangued Attorney General Merrick Garland about Garland’s son-in-law’s involvement in an education consulting company, claiming that the company would make money when schools teach the GOP’s MacGuffin of the GOP: elementary school and high school classes on critical race theory.
In reality, CRT is a graduate-level theory taught in law schools (and some medical schools), and it isn’t subject matter applicable for K-12 education. In reality, Garland’s son-in-law Xan Tanner’s company, Panorama Education, doesn’t provide any curriculum to schools; Panorama conducts surveys of students, teachers and parents to identify how the local “social and emotion climate” impact children’s ability to learn. It provides that analysis to school boards which make decisions on how to improve classroom effectiveness.
Cruz, who famously fled to Mexico while Texans suffered through a power outage during frigid weather because of the state’s failed power grid, strangely forgets that he failed to disclose $1 million he received from Goldman-Sachs, his wife’s employer, to fund his 2012 Senate campaign. And he failed to mention the income his wife makes from that financial firm as he voted to provide financial aid and tax breaks to the financial industry. Heidi Cruz, Rafael’s wife, has been an executive manager at Goldman-Sachs since 2012; she joined the firm in 2005.