Urgent: The State Wide Reading List is Back.

In January so many of you reached out to the State Board of Education (SBOE) in opposition to the proposed mandatory reading list that the board punted on its plan to impose a rigid reading curriculum on all schools across the state, pushing off any action on the issue until April. Well, it’s April.  Consideration of a mandatory literary works (aka required reading) list is back on the board’s agenda for next Tuesday, April 7, and we need your help in letting the board know that the current options on the table are still too restrictive. If adopted as-is, the lists under consideration would stifle a wide range of ideas and funnel students toward a narrow, tightly controlled worldview. And they would leave teachers with little flexibility to provide books that resonate with their students’ experiences or present diverse perspectives.