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Krista Kafer: Law to protect transgender pronouns and dress comes with a steep price — free speech
Monday, April 21st, 2025
via The Denver Post (Colorado)Eventually, the 'Legal Protections for Transgender Individuals' law, if it passes, will be struck down by the courts as an unconstitutional suppression of free speech, but by then, dama…
School Board – General, Parent Involvement
Bill tracker: Lawmakers approve I-465 speed limit change, Braun signs property tax relief
Monday, April 21st, 2025
via The Indianapolis Star (Indiana)IndyStar is tracking what bills moved each week through the Indiana General Assembly's 2025 legislative session.
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San Diego Book Crawl returns for 8th year with more locations
Sunday, April 20th, 2025
via The San Diego Union-Tribune (California)Created to celebrate Independent Bookstore Day on Saturday, the event will feature 14 local shops with celebrity guests and prizes
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Supreme Court to hear religious freedom case involving LGBTQ+ storybooks
Sunday, April 20th, 2025
via The Washington PostThe Supreme Court is being asked to decide whether public schools can refuse to give parents the right to pull kids from lessons involving LGBTQ-themed books.
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Scathing watchdog report highlights gaps in Virginia’s child welfare system
Saturday, April 19th, 2025
via Richmond Times-Dispatch (Virginia)When things get so bad that social workers think about taking children from their homes, their decisions are often made in arbitrary ways with little planning or thought, a blistering report from a…
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Brevard County residents protest teacher’s dismissal over name policy
Friday, April 18th, 2025
via WESH (Florida)Nearly 100 people gathered at a busy intersection in Satellite Beach on Friday to protest the dismissal of a Brevard teacher
School Board – General, Parent Involvement
Public schools gut budgets to cope with Trump axing pandemic grants
Friday, April 18th, 2025
via The Washington Times (District of Columbia)Public schools are gutting billions of dollars from staffing, program and supply budgets heading into summer vacation as they cope with the Trump administration ending access to pandemic stimulus grants.
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Alabama closer to limiting drag, LGBTQ discussions in more settings
Thursday, April 17th, 2025
via al.com (Alabama)One bill also prevents school employees from displaying Pride flags.
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School Vouchers Won in Texas. Next Up, the Nation.
Thursday, April 17th, 2025
via The New York Times (Washington)Choice laws have now passed in every major Republican state. Congress and President Trump are now aiming at blue states that have resisted vouchers for decades.
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Do NY budget talks include efforts to water down private-school rules? What we know
Thursday, April 17th, 2025
via The Journal News Media Group (New York)Yeshiva leaders say state and local educators are ill equipped to judge the quality of the education they offer through a religious lens.
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Anti-censorship group raises money to help Alabama library after pause in state funding
Thursday, April 17th, 2025
via The Tuscaloosa News (Alabama)Read Freely Alabama, which formed after a similar push in Prattville, raised $46,922 in five days to help the Fairhope library.
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Board hopefuls vying for seats in all 3 regions of Shaler Area School District
Wednesday, April 16th, 2025
via TribLive (Pennsylvania)Shaler Area School District residents will see contested races across all three of the district's regions in the May 20 primary. Region 1 In Shaler's Region 1, four candidates are vying for two seats…
School Board – General, Parent Involvement
WA parental, students’ rights debate continues as bills enter final stage
Wednesday, April 16th, 2025
via The Spokesman-Review (Washington)Lawmakers spent weeks engaged in fierce debate over how to best balance student privacy and parental rights after Democrats sought changes to a 2024 Republican-backed initiative commonly known as the…
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ACLU files First Amendment lawsuit against Rutherford school board for book bans
Wednesday, April 16th, 2025
via The Leaf-Chronicle (Tennessee)The Rutherford County Board of Education faces a federal First Amendment Lawsuit for banning books, a press release announced Wednesday.
School Board – General, Book Bans, Racism, Parent Involvement
House Republicans slam WA Democrats for ‘censoring’ debate on parental rights law
Wednesday, April 16th, 2025
via The Olympian (Washington)The controversy stemmed from debate on Senate Bill 5181, the parental-rights law rewrite.
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Arizona House approves chaplains in public school classrooms
Tuesday, April 15th, 2025
via Arizona Daily Star (Arizona)PHOENIX — Saying God is needed in schools, the Arizona House has approved allowing chaplains in public school classrooms.
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Rewrite of parental rights law passes Washington House
Tuesday, April 15th, 2025
via The Columbian (Washington)Washington House lawmakers, for nearly five hours on Monday, battled through the latest round of debate in the state Legislature over parental rights.
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Special Election For Former Assemblyman Bill Essayli’s Seat Announced for August 26th
Tuesday, April 15th, 2025
via California Globe (California)Governor Gavin Newsom announced on Monday that a special election to fill the seat of former Assemblyman Bill Essayli will be held on August 26, 2025, giving candidates just over four months to…
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Proposed legislation to limit book bans in Nevada libraries advances in state Assembly
Monday, April 14th, 2025
via Las Vegas Sun (Nevada)A bill that would make book bans harder to achieve in Nevada's school and public libraries passed its first hurdle toward becoming law. Assembly Bill 416 ...
School Board – General, Book Bans, Parent Involvement