Accreditation Mandates Bring CRT Into Colleges and K-12 Schools
23rd December 2025
Critical Race Theory will get you if you don’t watch out.
A recent report from Defending Education has found that more than half of collegiate social work programs appear to embed anti-racism and diversity, equity, and inclusion standards into their core competencies, admissions requirements, and field work evaluations.
This is not by accident. The sole accreditor of these schools, the Council on Social Work Education, requires adherence to these standards.
This means, in practice, that left-wing ideologies—many of which promote discrimination on the basis of race—are de facto orthodoxy in most of the nation’s social work programs, just so the institution can remain accredited.
This accreditation is required for graduates of these programs to gain licenses necessary to work in their fields.
So, what are students in college and graduate school learning in their social work programs?