In just the first 3 weeks of 2022, more than 70 bills have been filed in 27 states seeking to regulate what educators may teach about race, history and sexuality in schools, analysis shows.
Advocates say the sheer number of bills — as well as how severe many of them would be — is part of a robust effort by conservative lawmakers in GOP-controlled state legislatures to censor lessons surrounding race and sexuality., a nonprofit group that promotes freedom of expression, found that at least 71 bills have already been introduced or pre-filed in state legislatures across the country in 2022.
“They overwhelmingly target speech related to race and sex or sexuality,” Sachs added, and they are “getting more and more severe, more and more ambitious, and the punishments are getting more and more draconian.”The explosion of bills marks a significant uptick in both scale — the 71 bills introduced so far this year are more than half of the 122 that have been introduced since January 2021 — and severity. Of those 122 , 10 have become law in nine states.
Nearly half of the bills introduced so far this year target higher education , according to PEN, while 55 percent of the bills introduced this year propose punitive measures for violators . Republican lawmakers in Missouri proposed 19 of the bills, while eight were proposed in Indiana, many of which would allow for the harshest punitive measures against teachers and schools.
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