Students at campuses around the country have protested their schools’ handling of sexual assault as more students are on campus for the first time after pandemic-disrupted years.
Many state curricula still don’t mention Indigenous people, or mention them only as part of history. But that’s changing.
The harassment can be particularly hard on Muslim girls who wear hijabs, whose head coverings are sometimes offensively touched.
Attempts to keep books out of school libraries aren’t new, but there has been a recent increase in political challenges to literature.