For two weekends in a row, protesters gathered outside Georgia’s capitol to condemn a slate of Republican-backed education bills now moving through the legislature.
Parents, students and teachers waved signs with slogans like “Teach the truth” and sang an old civil rights anthem, “Marching on to Freedom Land.”
The bills include strict limits about how teachers talk about race in schools, a ban on transgender kids playing on the sports team that matches their gender identity and a bill that makes it easier for parents to complain about specific materials in school libraries.
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