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Arizona HB 2867 would allow students and parents to sue educators for teaching or promoting antisemitism.

School advocates say the bill could worsen the teacher shortage and First Amendment experts have raised concerns about its implications.

A bill on the governor's desk would allow students and their parents to sue K-12 and university teachers and could make the instructors pay damages for teaching or promoting antisemitism.

The proposal has provoked concern from public-school advocates about exacerbating the teacher shortage and has raised red flags about First Amendment violations due to what the proposed law considers "antisemitism."

But supporters, such as bill sponsor Rep. Michael Way, R-Queen Creek, say it's needed because existing anti-discrimination laws

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