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The next battle in the war for parents' rights in education is a line politicians dare not cross
Fox News
There’s the potential for a new fault line in America’s ever-growing debate about parental rights: a schism between policymakers who believe parents have a right to know what’s being taught in public K-12 schools, and those who do not.
[There are those] who believe parents have a right to know what’s being taught in public K-12 schools, and those who do not. The vague assurances currently on the books offer parents no meaningful rights at all.
Wisconsin lawmakers recently passed overwhelmingly the nation’s first, most powerful academic transparency law to pull back the curtains on the content of classroom instruction. The bill requires schools to post online a list of the specific instructional materials being presented—so that current and prospective parents can see for themselves whether the content awaiting their kids is academically rigorous, or ideologically extreme.