Wave of Anti-LGBTQ Legislation Targets Educators, Students

While educators work hard amid big challenges to provide all students a great public education, some politicians and groups are stoking fear and division with extreme rhetoric and proposals to restrict classroom speech and learning.

In this series, MEA Voice Editor Brenda Ortega shares five powerful individual stories that together reveal the detrimental effects of anti-LGBTQ laws and rhetoric on students and educators.

  1. Chilling effects from ‘Don’t Say Gay’
  2. Echoes from history of the worst kind
  3. Award-winning teacher faces threats
  4. Loving families won’t return to shadows
  5. ‘Our power comes from our stories’ 
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Alert: Contact your member of Congress to reject voucher scheme and Medicaid cuts

Congress is considering a dangerous budget proposal that includes a $20 billion federal school voucher scheme, which would drain critical resources from neighborhood public schools and funnel taxpayer dollars to for-profit private schools elsewhere. To add insult to injury, the budget proposal would make huge cuts to Medicaid for families and children across Michigan, causing […]

by Elena Helmer