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An education board in Virginia votes to restore Confederate names to 2 schools
Friday, May 10th, 2024
via The Associated PressA Virginia school board has voted to restore the names of Confederate military leaders to a high school and an elementary school four years after the names had been removed.
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Virginia school board restores Confederate leaders’ names to two schools
Friday, May 10th, 2024
via The Washington PostThe change comes four years after the schools had removed the names during the national racial reckoning sparked by George Floyd's killing.
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Jewish students say they wanted more from MCPS at antisemitism hearing
Thursday, May 9th, 2024
via The Washington PostJewish students say they wish lawmakers questioned Montgomery County Public Schools' response to antisemitism more thoroughly during Wednesday's hearing.
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Ncuti Gatwa chooses to ‘concentrate on the love’ as the new face of ‘Doctor Who’
Thursday, May 9th, 2024
via The Associated PressNcuti Gatwa says he's 'making the conscious choice to concentrate on the love and the positivity' as the Fifteenth Doctor in the new Disney+/BBC 'Doctor Who' series.
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Ncuti Gatwa jokes he finally impressed his parents, when he became ‘Doctor Who’
Thursday, May 9th, 2024
via The Associated PressActor Ncuti Gatwa, known for his roles on "Sex Education" and "Barbie," jokes that his parents finally believed he'd made it when he was cast as the 15th doctor on the hit U.K. show "Doctor Who."
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Arkansas cannot prevent 2 teachers from discussing critical race theory in classroom, judge rules
Wednesday, May 8th, 2024
via The Associated PressA federal judge has ruled Arkansas cannot prevent two high school teachers from discussing critical race theory in the classroom but is stopping short of a broader prohibition against the state's ban on teaching such subjects in the schools.
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Berkeley Schools Superintendent to Testify Today on Capitol Hill
Wednesday, May 8th, 2024
via The New York TimesThree leaders of major public school systems will appear before members of a House committee looking into claims of antisemitism in schools.
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Transgender activists flood Utah tip line with hoax reports to block bathroom law enforcement
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024
via The Associated PressTransgender activists have flooded a Utah tip line created to alert state officials to possible violations of a new bathroom law with thousands of hoax reports.
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South Carolina lawmakers rekindle bill limiting how topics like race are taught
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024
via The Associated PressA small group of lawmakers in South Carolina has rekindled debate on a bill that would limit how topics like race can be taught in public school K-12 classrooms.
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Georgia governor signs budget boosting spending, looking to surplus billions to cut taxes in future
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024
via The Associated PressGeorgia Gov. Brian Kemp is both increasing spending and cutting taxes as state tax revenues decline, saying he is looking to the state's billions in surplus to allow him to remain on that course.
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Judge dismisses lawsuit by mother who said school hid teen’s gender expression
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024
via The Associated PressA federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit by a Maine woman who accused school officials of encouraging her teen's gender expression without consulting her.
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After AP investigation, family of missing students enrolls in school
Monday, May 6th, 2024
via The Associated PressAfter AP's Pulitzer Prize-finalist investigation, a family of Atlanta kids struggling to enroll in school returned to class last month.
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This obscure N.Y. election law is at the heart of Trump’s hush money trial
Monday, May 6th, 2024
via The Washington PostNY state election law 17-152 is the statute that prosecutors say represents the underlying law Trump was intending to violate when he falsified business records.
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Texas school board accepts separation agreement with superintendent over student banned from musical
Thursday, May 2nd, 2024
via The Associated PressA Texas school board has accepted a voluntary separation agreement with its superintendent who was suspended after removing a transgender student from a role in the musical 'Oklahoma!'
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Read the Federal Judges’ Ruling
Wednesday, May 1st, 2024
via The New York TimesA newly drawn congressional map in Louisiana was struck down on Tuesday by a panel of federal judges who found that the new boundaries, which form a second majority Black district in the state,…
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‘A step back in time’: America’s Catholic Church sees an immense shift toward the old ways
Wednesday, May 1st, 2024
via The Associated PressAcross the United States, the Catholic church is undergoing an immense shift. Generations of Catholics are increasingly embracing religious conservatives who believe the church has been twisted by change.
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Court says state health-care plans can’t exclude gender-affirming surgery
Monday, April 29th, 2024
via The Washington PostIt was the second ruling this month in favor of trans advocates from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit.
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Push to restrict LGBTQ+ rights hits a snag in state legislatures
Monday, April 29th, 2024
via The Washington PostState legislatures have passed few bills targeting gay and transgender Americans this year, raising questions about whether the push to restrict LGBTQ rights is losing momentum.
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The formerly enslaved lawmaker who warned about rewriting Black history
Saturday, April 27th, 2024
via The Washington PostA century before today's fights on book bans and history curriculums, pioneering Black lawmaker John Roy Lynch sought to correct the record on Reconstruction.
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