As state legislative efforts to censor school conversations around race, gender and sexuality gained significant steam this year, the issue doesn’t seem to be going away anytime soon.
According to the Southern Education Foundation report, Republicans account for almost all of the Southern gubernatorial candidates who signaled support for censoring classroom discussions. However, Joy Hofmeister, the current state superintendent of Oklahoma and a Democrat running for Oklahoma governor, has said she is “opposed to critical race theory in schools and the adoption of any radical political agenda as part of the K-12 curriculum,” the report found.
