2021: The year of the parent activist

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : Youngkin's victory, on a platform featuring a vow to empower parents in public education, proved to be the culminating achievement of a parental rights movement that was visible in Virginia but also swept across the nation to Texas, Minnesota, Colorado, and everywhere in between.
59% : In school libraries, graphic novels that depicted sexually explicit material prompted investigations in some states as parents cried that public schools were making pornography accessible to children.
57% : The theory's presence in public schools is often denied by liberal activists and Democratic politicians, who say it is only taught in graduate schools, despite significant evidence to the contrary.
44% : From the refusal of numerous schools to reopen following the pandemic closures, the inclusion of critical race theory and gender ideology in school curricula, the fight over mask mandates, and the Loudoun County public school rape case, a wide breadth of issues pertaining to education motivated a new kind of voter, turning the Virginia race into an unexpected referendum on public education.

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