Gabrielle Jack

SB434 would allow a single person within a school district to challenge items and have them removed for the entire district. Despite mechanisms already being in place for parents to prohibit their child from accessing content and materials that they deem inappropriate, this would empower a single person to remove materials for all students - effectively censoring materials district-wide. It’s important that we trust educators to build inclusive and thoughtful classrooms where students can critically engage with a variety of age-appropriate materials, and not create easy mechanisms for censorship. SB431adds intent as a qualifier for the law pertaining to the prohibitions on teaching public school students about discrimination. The original bill text can be read by clicking the bill number.