Republicans on the House Rules Committee have moved the Parents’ Bill of Rights Act one step closer to a floor vote in the House.
The committee advanced the bill 9–3 along party lines. All three Democrats on the committee voted against it.
H.R. 5, the fulfillment of Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy’s (R-Calif.) long-promised “parental bill of rights,” would do several things, each with the overarching goal of ensuring that parents know what’s going on in their kids’ classrooms.
The main component of the bill would require schools to publicly disclose the contents of their curriculum and library materials to parents. Currently, many schools teaching controversial left-wing ideas do so without the parents’ knowledge….