In recent years, public schools have been under attack from from outside groups that profess “parents’ rights” and advocate for “school choice.” The leaders of this anti-public school movement has organized book bans that attack our children’s freedom to read and to imagine. They strangle funding to community schools, using vouchers to divert public money to subsidize religious schools. At the same time have, since 2020, they have introduced 200 bills the local, state and federal levels aimed at censoring teaching that presents students with critical views of slavery and other forms of racial oppression that are an undeniable part of American history.