NEW: Conservative activists want schools to post lesson plans online, but free speech advocates warn such policies could lead to more censorship in K-12 schools.
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Lawmakers in at least 12 states have introduced legislation to require schools to post lists of all of their teaching materials online.
“Florida law should provide parents with the right to review the curriculum used in their children’s schools,” Gov. DeSantis said last week.
“Florida law should provide parents with the right to review the curriculum used in their children’s schools,” Gov. DeSantis said last week.
Some conservative activists say the effort — which has come under fire from Democrats, teachers and civil liberties advocates — is a strategic move to expose and root out progressive ideas from schools.
Teachers, their unions and free speech advocates say the proposals would excessively scrutinize daily classwork and would lead teachers to pre-emptively pull potentially contentious materials to avoid drawing criticism.
It’s the next move in a fight over critical race theory, which some conservatives have used to describe ideas and books that they believe are too progressive or political for the classroom.
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@tylerkingkade reports: nbcnews.to/3FQ8e5I
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