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… worker rights and basic freedom of expression and thought; WHEREAS, it is especially critical that institutions vital to the free expression of ideas, such as the press and higher education, be free from government interference; WHEREAS, a concerted campaign has surfaced to convey the erroneous impression that   college and university professors are all left-wing radicals exposing students only … that would provide for government monitoring of curriculum, including reading materials in the classroom, to ensure that right-wing ideas are given more prominence; monitoring of faculty hiring practices to ensure that more conservative faculty …

… rights legislation—closed one door on the tragic practice of legal segregation in our nation’s history and opened another to realizing, at long last, the promise of equal protection under the law. In 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in … the decision had a profound impact on American society, 50 years later the promise of Brown v. Board of Education has yet to be truly fulfilled. As a major study by the Harvard Civil Rights Project recently showed, our nation’s schools are … at closing the achievement gap. We must do more than merely commemorate Brown a half century after its passage; we must work with urgency to achieve its promise and its purposes for today’s students and for future generations of students. This …