ACLU Supporter, classes are back in full swing, and so is school censorship.

We're fighting for the right to learn, but we're still 239 donations away from our fundraising goal and our deadline is midnight tonight. Now is the best time to make your first donation: Even a few dollars helps, so donate now to protect our civil liberties in classrooms and beyond.

In this dire moment for our right to learn, here's what you need to know about the latest wave of school censorship:

1. Thirty-five percent of K-12 students are not able to exercise their right to properly learn about race and gender in class because of "anti-CRT" curriculum changes. And, in a particularly egregious case in Florida, Ron DeSantis has directed teachers to tell students that slavery benefited Black people.
2. Last year, 2,500 books were banned, mostly because they discussed race, gender, sexuality, or marginalized identities. The banned titles include Pulitzer Prize winning novels, like Toni Morrison's Beloved and Art Spiegelman's Maus.
3. We're fighting back. We've gone to court to protect the right to learn in Missouri, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, Virginia, and more. And, we have already successfully convinced a court to pause the implementation of Florida's censorship law in higher education.

With a network of fearless attorneys, organizers, and advocates across the country, we're uniquely prepared to defend students from viewpoint-based censorship – but we need to reach our fundraising goal before midnight tonight to show up to these fights with our full strength, and we're falling short right now.

We need you to join the team to help us defend the right to learn. Please, make your first donation to the ACLU now to help us close our fundraising gap. Your gift will be put right to work protecting free speech in classrooms, pushing back against bookbans and protecting all of our civil liberties.

If we protect the right to learn, we can raise a strong generation of leaders who will help us build a more perfect union.

Thank you for your support,

The ACLU Team