'This report confirms a grim reality: some elected leaders are marching schools backward, and trampling on students' free expression in the process.'
Monday that"some Florida schools have moved library books and debated changing textbooks in response [to the law]—and some teachers have worried that family pictures on their desks could get them in trouble."
Such impacts bolster PEN's argument that gag order laws"create a broad chilling effect among teachers and professors both by their pervasiveness and by the censorious discourse they inspire—part of a nationwide campaign of classroom censorship that shows no signs of abating." "In 2022, proposed gag orders have been more likely to include punishments, and those punishments have more frequently been harsh: heavy fines or loss of state funding for institutions, termination, or even criminal charges for teachers," the report states."In 2023, we anticipate that the assault on education will continue."
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