It’s National School Choice Week, the annual right-wing campaign against public education and teachers’ unions. But this year, its supporters are making a new argument.

The group of parents has injected conservative politics into classrooms and reshaped the 2022 midterms.

You won’t find it in the tenets of neoliberalism.

“Every minute I wasn’t with the kids, personally, I was beyond treading water with my mental health. I was just drowning.”

Florida’s recent struggles over masks in schools augur a terrifying shift in the right’s approach to education policy.

A highly contagious variant, quarantines, closures, and fast-changing rules: It was supposed to be a calm fall, but we’re looking at a new year that could look a lot like the last.

Classes are being canceled, and teachers are being fired, as “anti–critical race theory” fights are coming to a head in Republican states. But the viral school board videos are only part of the story.

“It’s almost as if we’re guinea pigs in some way.”

Millions of students are now learning from home, and pro-charter, anti-teacher forces are trying to seize the moment.