KENTUCKY UPDATE 🚨

The “moral instruction” amendment that was added to Kentucky HB 253 (a bipartisan reading bill) is now expected to be withdrawn after backlash and scrutiny.

Let’s be clear about what happened:

A bill about reading instruction suddenly had language added that would have required schools to allow outside organizations to provide moral or religious instruction during the school day.

That policy had already failed as standalone legislation.
So it was added to an unrelated education bill instead.

And people noticed.

This is exactly why public oversight matters.

When controversial policies can’t pass on their own, they sometimes reappear attached to unrelated bills late in the process. That’s not transparency. That’s strategy.

This time:
People paid attention.
Advocates spoke up.
Lawmakers backed off.

But this is the important part:

🚨This is a tactic – not a one-time event.

We continue to see similar strategies around:
• released-time religious instruction programs
• “moral instruction” laws
• chaplain bills
• religious display mandates
• character education legislation

None of these efforts exist in isolation. They are part of a broader effort to reshape what happens during the public school day.

This time scrutiny worked.

Stay informed. Stay engaged. Because these proposals rarely disappear…they just come back in a different form.

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