House Republicans passed an education bill last month emphasizing parents’ rights in the classroom, marking Congress’s foray into an increasingly powerful U.S. movement that seeks to expand parent oversight of how gender and race are taught in public schools.
Though the bill is unlikely to pass in a Democrat-controlled Senate, parental rights has emerged as a top issue for Republicans ahead of the 2024 elections, with a tidal wave of legislation having been passed or introduced in two dozen states this year alone.
Critics say the innocuous-sounding term is being weaponized to usher in laws that target trans youth and their families, a strategy with
