This Preschool Handbook is Essential to Early Learning — So Why Do Some States Want to Ban It?

Recently, Governor Kay Ivey forced the resignation of the secretary of Alabama’s Department of Early Childhood Education, Dr. Barbara Cooper, for allowing the use of a well-known early learning handbook in state-run preschool programs. Governor Ivey purported that the preschool handbook contains “woke concepts” that are “divisive” and have “no place in Alabama classrooms at any age level, let alone with our youngest learners.”