A fifth-grade teacher who showed her class a Disney film. A children’s book author whose graphic novel about a Boy Scout shot to the top of the banned books list. A 27-year veteran of Florida’s public school system who was accused of “Marxist” indoctrination of his students for teaching an AP African American history class.
These are some of the people with livelihoods threatened by what’s been called the “ed scare” – a coordinated attempt by conservative-backed groups like Moms for Liberty and Citizens Defending Freedom to prohibit instruction about race, sexuality and gender in US public education.
