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School Choice: Empowering Parents and Combating Harmful Ideologies

The U.S. Senate recognizes and promotes the importance of parental involvement in children's education. It emphasizes the necessity of school choice as a tool to empower parents with the freedom to choose the best educational environment for their children, while rejecting ideologies like Critical Race Theory. This aims to ensure parents can decide on their children's education according to their needs and beliefs.
Key points
Parents gain greater freedom in choosing schools for their children, aiming to tailor education to individual needs, academic goals, and personal and religious beliefs.
The resolution seeks to prevent the inclusion of ideas that any race is inherently superior or inferior in curricula, protecting children from discrimination.
It highlights the importance of parental involvement in the educational process and their right to have a say in what their children are taught, especially concerning pandemic-related learning impacts.
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A resolution recognizing the necessity of school choice as a tool to empower all parents with the freedom to choose the best educational environment for their children and to combat destructive ideologies like Critical Race Theory promoted by many public schools.
Print number: SRES 493
Sponsor: Sen. Lankford, James [R-OK]
Process start date: 2022-01-19