“We’ve hijacked a beautiful rainbow sticker into something different. It is political,” Newberg school board chair Dave Brown, who voted for the ban, said during a school board meeting last summer. The district’s teachers’ union, along with the American Civil Liberties Union of Oregon, has sued, calling the ban arbitrary, confusing and an infringement on teachers’ free speech. Andrew Gallagher, a high school history teacher and a plaintiff in the teachers’ union lawsuit, said that he believes the board members’ agenda is driven by a national movement to censor conversations about race and gender in the classroom. The vagueness around the definitions of “controversial” and “political” have caused confusion among educators, Gallagher said.
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