Earlier this month, the American Library Association said book banning efforts reached an unprecedented level in their time of documenting such efforts.
<p>Calls for "transparency" in curriculum are working hand in hand with an agenda to divert public school funding to charter schools using a curriculum steeped in Christian nationalism. But liberals would do well to heed the connection these plans draw between education and citizenship, and parents' desire to connect them more firmly.</p>
Despite the dozens of awful policies being hammered into our lives by the state legislature, what will have the longest detrimental impact is the current push to ban books, ban critical race discussions and introduce patriotic civic education into our school systems.