Republicans Pushed Almost 400 "Education Intimidation" Bills in Two Years
Lawmakers in all but four states introduced bills that indirectly censor what’s taught in schools, according to a new PEN America report.
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Lawmakers in all but four states introduced bills that indirectly censor what’s taught in schools, according to a new PEN America report.
Since 2021, state lawmakers have introduced nearly 400 bills aimed at giving parents, government officials and concerned citizens the ability to challenge or monitor what schools teach about race and gender issues, according to a new report from the free expression advocacy group PEN America.
“Fear,” says the reports introduction, “is the new watchword in public education.”
Story at a glance State bills designed to scare teachers away from discussing race and sexuality in the classroom are on the rise, free expression group PEN America argues in a new report. The report, released Wednesday, found that nearly 400 such measures, which PEN America has dubbed “educational intimidation” bills, were introduced into state legislatures between January 2021 and June of this…
A teacher was fired by a Georgia school board after she read a book exploring gender beyond the binary to her fifth-grade class.