{"id":5265,"date":"2023-08-31T14:49:24","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T19:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=5265"},"modified":"2023-08-31T14:49:25","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T19:49:25","slug":"top-republican-calls-to-pull-taxpayer-cash-from-schools-promoting-gender-ideology-and-sexual-material","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=5265","title":{"rendered":"Top Republican calls to pull taxpayer cash from schools promoting \u2018gender ideology\u2019 and \u2018sexual material\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20370%20247'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-165.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"zeen-lazy-load-base zeen-lazy-load wp-image-5266\"\/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"931\" height=\"523\" src=\"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-165.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-165.png 931w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-165-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-165-770x433.png 770w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-165-293x165.png 293w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-165-390x219.png 390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 931px) 100vw, 931px\" \/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A House Republican-led bill aims to cut off federal dollars from public schools that hold material harmful to minors, and which violate state laws on what materials students can access.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>FIRST ON FOX:&nbsp;<\/strong>A new House Republican bill aims to cut federal dollars from public schools that promote \u201cmaterials that are harmful to minors\u201d amid a nationwide debate over what children should be learning in the classroom.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The legislation, the No Obscene Teaching In Our Schools Act, was introduced by House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mark Green, R-Tenn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019m appalled at some of the material our children are exposed to in school. Some books are so explicit that excerpts have been censored in school board meetings,\u201d Green told Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cTopics like radical&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/mom-sues-school-for-hiding-daughters-gender-change-after-she-later-ran-away-and-was-sex-trafficked-suit\">gender ideology<\/a>&nbsp;and explicit sexual material have no place on the shelves of our children\u2019s schools. For eight hours a day, we trust schools to take care of our children. Explicit materials in libraries get in the way of a school\u2019s true mission\u2013to educate.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The bill would cut federal funding from schools that are found to have learning materials, such as books in school libraries, that contain topics which have been restricted by state law as harmful to students under 18 years old. The bill text itself does not specifically define or refer to \u201cexplicit sexual material\u201d or \u201cgender ideology.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If passed, schools found in violation of the law would either see<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>their state\u2019s educational agency returned the federal money \u2013 or, at the request of a guardian or parent, see funding routed into an educational investment savings account known as a 529, or a Qualified Tuition Plan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cParents send their children to school to learn\u2014not be exposed to obscene materials. If a school breaks the law, states and parents should at the very least have the flexibility to divert a child\u2019s education funding to a 529 plan,\u201d Green explained.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">School districts across the country have seen debates spark over what kind of materials children should be exposed to in school, particularly without parental knowledge.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some states, like Florida&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/white-house-suggests-desantis-education-bill-contributes-racial-violence-dont-think-stretch\">and Texas<\/a>, have cracked down on the issue with recent laws. In Florida as of this year, adults are forbidden from giving kids access to \u201cpornographic or harmful materials\u201d on school property.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As of June, school libraries in Texas were forced to clear material that could be considered sexually explicit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Virginia law that has led some schools in the state to voluntarily pull materials from their shelves requires schools to adopt notification policies for parents if their child\u2019s instruction material contained sexually explicit content.&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/gov-youngkin-fires-back-school-district-defying-policy-gender-identity-parents-are-in-charge\">Virginia parents<\/a>&nbsp;may opt their students out of those lessons.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, critics of the move claim it is unfairly restricting access to materials that are not harmful to students. Nonprofit PEN America has claimed the crackdowns amount to \u201ccensorship\u201d and unfairly target female, LGBTQ and non-White authors.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Biden administration announced earlier this year that it would appoint a special coordinator on \u201cbook bans\u201d as part of a slate of new protections for LGBTQ students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Original Article: <a href=\"https:\/\/conservativemodern.com\/top-republican-calls-to-pull-taxpayer-cash-from-schools-promoting-gender-ideology-and-sexual-material\/\">https:\/\/conservativemodern.com\/top-republican-calls-to-pull-taxpayer-cash-from-schools-promoting-gender-ideology-and-sexual-material\/<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/conservativemodern.com\/former-kanye-west-publicist-trevian-kutti-grins-in-mugshot-after-being-booked-in-trump-election-case\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A House Republican-led bill aims to cut off federal dollars from public schools that hold material harmful to minors, and which violate state laws on what materials students can access. FIRST ON FOX:&nbsp;A new House Republican bill aims to cut federal dollars from public schools that promote \u201cmaterials that are harmful to minors\u201d amid a nationwide debate over what children should be learning in the classroom.&nbsp; The legislation, the No Obscene Teaching In Our Schools Act, was introduced by House [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-threat-to-america"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5267,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5265\/revisions\/5267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}