Model Policy for the Reconsideration of Curricular Materials

Public schools should be places where ideas are openly disseminated, discussed, and debated. Our democracy depends on students becoming fully informed people able to make up their own minds, and to do so they need a wealth of information at their fingertips.

The NYCLU developed model policies to assist school boards and district personnel in establishing a sound, workable, and constitutionally justified policy for selecting and considering challenges to curricula.