Echoing the frustration and distrust felt by parents across the nation about public school education, lawmakers in at least 20 states have introduced measures to ensure parents’ access to what their children are being taught in the classroom.
Those Republican-backed measures, commonly referred to as curriculum transparency bills, require public schools to make available online all their teaching materials. Some of them are single-subject bills, while others exist as part of boarder “parents’ bills of rights,” which rest on the idea that parents should have the right to obtain critical information about what is being provided in the classroom and to take action when they feel that the quality or content of the education does not align with their values.
