Say NO to book bans. Protect our schools and kids.

Protect Our Schools: Say NO to Book Bans

Across the country parents have consistently told extremist Republicans that we do not support their extremist so-called “parental rights” agenda of banning books, discriminating against students and teachers, and making life harder for our kids at school. Yet they keep coming up with ways to do just that.

This spring, U.S. House Republicans passed a national extremist “parental rights” bill, but luckily, the more moderate Senate did not act on it. Instead of taking “no” for an answer, they are now trying to pass this unwanted, unnecessary, and unpopular garbage by slipping it into must-pass legislation — the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).

In doing this, Republican leaders are laying the foundations to pass a suite of anti-public education and pro-censorship laws that will impact all our schools. And they are doing this despite the fact that poll after poll, and election after election, keep showing that parents reject an extremist education agenda. In short, Republican leadership are trying to take unpopular legislation and pass it piece by piece in completely unrelated bills: This time by passing an NDAA imposing this same extremist agenda on Department of Defense (DoD) public schools, opening the door to book bans, and pushing much-needed teachers out of the profession.

Protect Schools

Protect Our Schools: Say NO to Book Bans. We need the Senate to take this harmful language out of the NDAA and for the House to pass a version of the NDAA that gives children of service members the freedom to learn. Add your voice to our letter now.

Dear member of Congress:

I’m joining MomsRising, an organization of more than one million moms across the country, to strongly urge the removal of Section 589 in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). The section, titled “Rights of parents of children attending schools operated by the Department of Defense Education Activity,” would impose burdensome and unnecessary requirements in schools operated by the Department of Defense Education – and is not supported by the majority of parents in America. Section 589 would make our schools less safe and effective while doing nothing to boost education outcomes.

We deeply appreciate and value our nation’s educators; and this section would damage the parent-teacher relationship with hostile reporting and commenting requirements. It could also facilitate the banning of books, particularly those that provide the much-needed viewpoints of Black, brown, AAPI, religious-minority, and LGBTQ+ communities. And, we believe that this section would also undercut efforts to create safe environments for all children by undermining crucial public health data. Finally, this section is an unnecessary burden that would only serve to distract school administrators and educators from the most crucial work of teaching and supporting our country’s children.

America's moms want extremist policies out of our schools – and instead for Congress to support schools, as well as put in place a care infrastructure (child care, paid family and medical leave, fair pay, and elder care) that will allow all families to succeed. Again, we strongly urge the removal of Section 589 in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).

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