Republican lawmakers in multiple states are pushing new bills aimed at keeping gender ideology out of sex education and emphasizing parental rights to make decisions on the information their child receives.

The bills come as Republicans have stepped up efforts to reform public school instruction since the pandemic, during which remote learning allowed parents to gain more insight into the sometimes sexually explicit or racialized curriculum their children were learning.

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