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Missouri Attorney General's invasion of 'academic freedom'

By Nomin Ujiyediin,
Byron J. Love
Published October 13, 2022 at 4:00 AM CDT
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Free speech advocates say Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt is attacking academic freedom by filing records requests at schools and universities, targeting issues of journalistic fact-checking and social-emotional learning.

Republican Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt has filed many open records requests to Missouri schools recently. While public schools and universities are compelled to respond to records requests because they’re government institutions, some advocates are concerned that the record requests, which target journalistic fact-checking and social-emotional learning, are an attempt to limit academic freedom.

Nomin Ujiyediin spoke with Tessa Weinberg, reporter for the Missouri Independent, to get some background on why Schmitt, who's also running for U.S. Senate, made those requests.

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Nomin Ujiyediin
As a newscaster and a host of a daily news podcast, I want to deliver the most important and interesting news of the day in an engaging and easily understandable way. No matter where you live in the metro or what you’re interested in, I want you to learn something from each newscast or podcast – and maybe even give you something to talk about at the dinner table.
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