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I live a liberal city, and was in public school just a few years ago. They mostly do teach the true ugly history of slavery and genocide. For civics, they do teach about constitution and impeachments, in fact, we as a class analyzed many of the boring parts of the constitution anx declaration of independence, and I had to memorize and write out the preamble of the constitution on a test. There aren't much that's censored.
And they also taught about different political systems, and oh boy, once they mentioned socialism and commmunism, they immediately alluded to the soviet union. Which isn't that surprising since, you know, status-quo liberals.
TLDR: Censorship, not really. Biased teachers, yes, absolutely. Capitalism is always good, anything socialist or communist is soviet union, russia, or china (which is a gross misrepresentation on the ideology)
P.S. One teacher did briefly mentioned Germany and that nazi flags are illegal in modern day Germany and there was a class discussion about it, it was sort of divided, the teacher kinda implied they supported banning nazi flags, but of course, the US Constitution wouldn't allow that to happen. So the concept of free speech absolutism is kinda being debated, athough I think a lot of my peers at the time supported free speech absolutism, at least when it comes to laws.
Is there any specific questions you would like to ask about my liberal city public school? (I'm not gonna name the city, just the fact that its not in a red state)