The North Carolina State Superintendent walked back plans to implement a statewide curriculum that teaches disabled preschoolers to “deconstruct whiteness,” according to a report from Education First Alliance (EFA).

Catherine Truitt, North Carolina’s superintendent of public instruction, said she has not “will not sign” a contract proposal that teaches disabled preschoolers “we are all products of a racialized society” and that “Whiteness affects everything … inside and outside the classroom.”