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A coordinated attack on the First Amendment is happening at schools and universities across the country as state legislators silence the voices of marginalized students and make teachers’ jobs impossible.

ACLU affiliates are challenging discriminatory discipline policies, censorship efforts, and the use of force in schools across the country.

A student and teacher who are fighting against classroom censorship share their stories.

As a former high school teacher and lawyer, I’ve seen what we stand to lose as a nation if we don’t stop classroom censorship.

Here’s how discrimination continues to impact access to safe, quality education today, and why we’re fighting to ensure all people have equal access.

No matter what state law may say, school staff can’t impose religion on students.

As censorship and harassment spread across South Carolina, teachers are finding allies in their communities.

From homeownership to income, systemic inequities perpetuate disparities in wealth.

The United States' interstate highway system is structural racism in action: an intentional government program that damaged Black lives and communities for generations.