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Updating the Nevada Policy Tracker: A guide to key issues in the 2025 legislative session
Saturday, May 3rd, 2025
via The Nevada Independent (Nevada)The Indy's Nevada Policy Tracker is a guide to the storylines expected to make the biggest splash in the coming months.
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Oregon lawmaker accused of creating hostile work environment
Saturday, May 3rd, 2025
via Statesman Journal (Oregon)Rep. Dwayne Yunker said he was told he was under investigation after reading a sex scene from a young adult book.
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Texas strips protections for teachers, parents who share ‘obscene’ material with children
Friday, May 2nd, 2025
via The Texas Tribune (Texas)A fiery debate on the House floor Friday gave way to the Senate Bill 412's final vote. Supporters say it's needed to protect children.
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Sioux Falls school board candidates debate education issues ahead of May 13 election
Thursday, May 1st, 2025
via Argus Leader (South Dakota)Four candidates vying for two open seats on the Sioux Falls School District Board of Education debated education topics on Wednesday night.
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A ban on book bans: Oregon bill would protect access to library materials
Thursday, May 1st, 2025
via The Bulletin (Oregon)Senate Bill 1098 aims to prevent removal of books about protected classes in Oregon
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Librarians hold town hall fighting for funding, opposing book bans
Wednesday, April 30th, 2025
via WRAL (North Carolina)School librarians, educators, and families gathered at a town hall in Raleigh to advocate for increased funding for school libraries and to oppose proposed legislation aimed at banning certain books.
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Events Roundup: May blossoms
Wednesday, April 30th, 2025
via Lewiston Tribune (Idaho)Art, music, activism and Moscow's annual Renaissance Fair arrive this week
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Students decry book bans on steps of Michigan Capitol
Wednesday, April 30th, 2025
via Michigan Advance (Michigan)About 50 students from various school districts gathered on the steps of the Michigan Capitol Tuesday to read excerpts from books that are commonly banned, part of an advocacy day held by the Michigan Education Justice Coalition. Detroit Area Youth Uniting Michigan student organizer Demetrius Davis said the books that are banned are often those […]
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Commentary: Why can’t we think anymore? Because we don’t read
Wednesday, April 30th, 2025
via Orlando Sentinel (Florida)The Legislature is banning school books, but as an FSU professor writes, that's only part of the bigger issue — an education system that de-emphasizes reading and writing is affecting e…
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Teacher Appreciation Week 2025: Get these deals, discounts in California for educators
Tuesday, April 29th, 2025
via Ventura County Star (California)National Teacher Appreciation Week kicks off Monday, May 9. Here's how to get discounted wings, school supplies, subscriptions and more.
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Statesman journalists finalists for Livingston Award, Education Writers Association prize
Friday, April 25th, 2025
via Austin American-Statesman (Texas)Four American-Statesman journalists are finalists for two prestigious national awards for their reporting last year on book bans, deadly bus crash.
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From Book Bans to Canceled Lectures, the Naval Academy Is Bending to Trump
Thursday, April 24th, 2025
via The New York Times (Massachusetts)Even before the presidential election, the school began preparing for Donald Trump's potential return to power. Now faculty members are resigning in protest.
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Broward school board’s lone conservative member resigns, cites ‘toxic environment’
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2025
via Miami Herald (Florida)After two years, Brenda Fam leaves Broward County School Board amid claims of hostility, lack of transparency, and educational concerns.
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Court signals support for Maryland parents opposed to LGBTQ books
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2025
via The Baltimore Banner (Maryland)The Supreme Court seemed likely to find that the Montgomery County school system could not require elementary school children to sit through lessons involving the books if parents expressed religious…
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Supreme Court takes up religious rights dispute over LGBTQ books in Maryland schools
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2025
via The Associated Press (Maryland)The Supreme Court is hearing arguments over the religious rights of parents in Maryland to remove their children from elementary school classes using storybooks with LGBTQ characters.
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Supreme Court signals support for Maryland parents who object to LGBTQ books in public schools
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2025
via The Baltimore Sun (Maryland)By MARK SHERMAN WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court's conservative majority on Tuesday signaled support for the religious rights of parents in Maryland who want to remove their children…
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Yeshivas must keep teaching standards
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2025
via New York Daily News (New York)As New York's budget negotiations drag on, a dangerous backroom effort is underway. Being targeted are New York's 'substantial equivalency' regulations — rules that ensure private schools, includin…
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How one Annapolis bookstore is combating USNA book removals
Monday, April 21st, 2025
via The Baltimore Sun (Maryland)A retired Navy commander and bookstore are working to give midshipmen access to many of the books recently removed from the academy's library.
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Delaware lawmakers introduce bipartisan legislation to limit book bans in schools and libraries
Sunday, April 20th, 2025
via Delaware Public Media (Delaware)Delaware lawmakers introduce the bipartisan Freedom to Read Act, which would ensure books are not removed from public and school libraries for identity-based, ideological or religious reasons.
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A prince and knight fall in love and the Supreme Court is asked to intervene
Saturday, April 19th, 2025
via The Associated Press (Delaware)Some parents in a suburban Maryland county want to pull their children from elementary school classes that use books featuring LGBTQ characters.
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