Gov. Wes Moore takes the smart stand on academic freedom in Maryland

Textbooks have been under assault in recent years from right-wing political fanatics targeting K-12 classroom material. Florida has been at the center of the movement, with so-called “anti-woke” efforts underway to remove references to race, gender, sexual orientation and other matters they find objectionable. Sometimes it’s a social studies book that makes reference to the police killing of George Floyd that causes the pearl-clutching, usually by white Christian evangelicals.