Alabama lawmakers are looking to take up bills in the upcoming weeks that would ban concepts associated with critical race theory (CRT). However, the state’s Superintendent Eric Mackey said on Wednesday (February 2) that members of the House Education Policy Committee are confused about what CRT is.

According to AL.com, Mackey claimed he is hearing from people who call to report that CRT is being taught, but when state officials investigate, they find no evidence of it.

”There are people out there who don’t understand what CRT is,” Mackey said, according to the news outlet. “And so in their misunderstanding of it, they make a report but it’s not actually CRT.”

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He continued: “I had two calls in the last week that they’re having a Black History Month program and they consider having a Black history program CRT. Having a Black history program is not CRT.”

However, Rep. Ed Oliver, R-Dadeville insists CRT is being taught in Alabama's K-12 classrooms and filed HB9, a bill to ban divisive concepts from being used in trainings conducted by state agencies and contractors. Oliver did not give examples of how CRT is being taught.

Superintendent Mackey stated, “I can tell you what’s in the state curriculum. I can tell you what’s in our textbooks and CRT is not in there. If somebody does that and steps outside of what’s acceptable and what’s in the approved curriculum,” Mackey said, “that there are some measures that can take place.”

​​Critical race theory is a legal theory by former Harvard Law professor Derrick Bell, who died in 2011. CRT is a graduate-level course that examines the ways in which race – sometimes unfairly or even unintentionally – intersects with U.S. institutions, according to The New York Times.