In September 2025, the NAEd filed an amicus brief with the Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit opposing Oklahoma’s classroom censorship law. Oklahoma’s law (H.B. 1775) limits public school curricula, pedagogy, and dialogue related to race and sex—running counter to well-established research on how students learn. The Act’s disruption of evidence-based pedagogical strategies severely restricts educators’ ability to teach core concepts, thereby denying students’ First Amendment right to access information that supports their learning. The Act clearly denies the next generation of Oklahomans access to inclusive curricula and pedagogical practices that further their successful cognitive, social, and emotional development, academic achievement, and preparation for democratic civic engagement. The NAEd brief, supported pro bono by Holland & Hart LLP, advocates for a multiracial group of students and educators – including the Oklahoma State Conference of the NAACP and the American Indian Movement Indian Territory – represented by the ACLU, the ACLU of Oklahoma, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, and McDermott Will and Schulte LLP in their efforts to quash this harmful legislation.
