I know something about standing up to the authoritarian impulses of the MAGA movement. I resigned as Kentucky’s commissioner of education in late 2023 rather than enforce the GOP-dominated state legislature’s shameful law aimed at erasing and marginalizing LGBTQ+ students. The Trump administration has escalated these attacks from hostile rhetoric directed toward students and K-12 […] The post OPINION: For our republic to survive, education leaders must remain firm in the face of authoritarianism appeared first on The Hechinger Report.