The nation’s students are experiencing spiking threats to educational opportunity access. Since 2020, the nation has seen intensive efforts by nationally networked organizations and politicians to limit race- and diversity-related learning, discussion, support, and opportunity creation in US schools, using the levers of both local agitation and formal policy. Calling such work harmful to youth and the nation, policymakers and activist organizations have sought to “ban” “Critical Race Theory” from schools starting in 2020+, then to limit basic supports across all sexual orientations/gender identities (SOGI), and most broadly to curtail and “end” work on “diversity,” “equity,” and “inclusion” in states and federally.
Supporting State and Local Efforts to Expand Opportunities for Young People in an Age of Attack
