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"It's About Censorship, Erasure, and Control": The GOP's Push for Parental Rights

  • 1.  "It's About Censorship, Erasure, and Control": The GOP's Push for Parental Rights

    Posted 04-08-2025 03:47 PM

    [ATPE Governmental Relations Director Monty Exter is quoted in this article.]

    Adults in the committee hearing room spent hours discussing ways to affirm parental rights in Texas' public school classrooms, but it was a teenager who wanted to school them on how some of the proposed legislation under consideration might do the opposite. This wasn't about empowering parents in their kids' education, Marshall Romero, a sophomore at Alief Early College High School, told members of the Senate Committee on Education K-16 at the hearing in late February. "It's about censorship, erasure, and control," Romero said. 

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    Michael Spurlin
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