Last year Iowa passed a law forbidding the promotion or the inclusion in curriculum of certain concepts. Parents may sue, and the state may withdraw financial support. And teachers may not talk about sexual orientation or gender identity without parental consent. Also, bans on gender and race diversity training, compelling students to affirm certain ideas or any anti-American ideologies.

Now there are four new bills on their way ( SB 415, HB 1362, HB 1389, HB 1134) that ban including certain ideas about sex, race, and state and national history.

Indiana’s previous attempt was scuttled when its sponsor suggested that it meant Nazis should get equal balanced treatment in the classroom. Parents may file objections to any affirmation of certain ideas, and they may also sue. One also requires that Marxism and socialism be addressed. Illinois has two bills pending ( HB 5494, HB 5505) that ban promoting or including particular ideas about sex or race. A newly proposed bill ( HB 488) would add the right of private action to the law-the ability for a parent to sue the school-as well as loss of state financial support for violating the law. Idaho was an early adopter of anti-crt law, forbidding public schools from requiring any student to adopt the usual list of Critical Race Theory ideas. Covering K-12 and college, they ban training classroom employees to teach, act upon or encourage particular “divisive concepts.” In a particularly big reach, one bans K-12 schools from requiring students to engage in or observe a discussion of public policy. Georgia has three brand new bills pending ( HB 888, SB 377, SB 375). Florida’s legislature is also contemplating what has become known as the “Don’t Say Gay bill ( HB 1557), which bars schools from encouraging “classroom discussion about sexual orientation or gender identity.” DeSantis has said that he wants state gag laws to include the right for parents to sue over a civil rights violation is they believe a school or teacher has violated the law. Now two bills ( SB 242, SB 148) aim to ban anything that makes students feel “discomfort, guilt, anguish or any other form of psychological distress. Governor DeSantis was one of the first to issue an anti-crt edict, forbidding CRT and any other instructional materials that “distort” historical events, as well as banning the 1619 Project. It also forbids segregation or “making distinctions” based on race or ethnicity a few months ago, there was complaint about a Colorado elementary school’s Families of Color Playground night. Introduced just this month, HB 1206 prohibits promoting certain ideas related to race, sex, or ethnicity.

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