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Landmark federal trial for a hate crime based on gender identity starts over trans woman’s killing
Tuesday, February 20th, 2024
via Omaha World-Herald (Nebraska)Attacks on the LGBTQ+ community have surged in recent years, but until 2009, federal hate crime laws did not account for offenses motivated by the victim's sexual orientation or gender identity.
LGBTQ+, Parent Involvement
Turning New Jersey around: Bill Spadea’s call to action
Tuesday, February 20th, 2024
via New Jersey 101.5 (New Jersey)Is New Jersey ready for the return of common sense?
Parents
6 more books banned in Carroll public school libraries, bringing total to 9
Tuesday, February 20th, 2024
via Capital Gazette (Maryland)Decisions have been made about 25 of the 58 books that Superintendent Cynthia McCabe ordered removed from Carroll County public schools' library shelves last September amid challenges from th…
School Board – General, Book Bans, Parent Involvement
Oklahoma legislature considering over 50 bills targeting LGBTQ+ issues. What do they say?
Tuesday, February 20th, 2024
via The Oklahoman (Oklahoma)The ACLU is tracking anti-LGBTQ+ bills across the nation, and Oklahoma leads the pack with 54 bills. Here's a breakdown of what each bill entails.
Parent Involvement, Sex Education
Maryland ‘Freedom to Read Act’ bill aims to protects books and librarians
Monday, February 19th, 2024
via The Washington Post (New Jersey)The 'Freedom to Read Act' of Maryland is proposed to protects books and librarians
School Board – General, Book Bans, Parent Involvement
Elections 2024: Get to know the candidates running for OC Board of Education
Monday, February 19th, 2024
via OC Register (California)Three OCBE seats are up for grabs on the 2024 primary ballot, with incumbents in each district running for re-election and facing challengers.
School Board – General, Parent Involvement
Beth Fukumoto: A Bipartisan Spirit Continues To Elude Hawaii’s GOP Legislators
Monday, February 19th, 2024
via Honolulu Civil Beat (Hawaii)It's hard to encourage cooperation across the aisle when you're championing many of the same issues that are tearing the country apart.
Parents
Commentary: When the archaeologists dig us up, it’ll be a scary sight
Sunday, February 18th, 2024
via Orlando Sentinel (Florida)From cocaine-addled bears to children's literature, people of the future may be confused at what the Floridians of the 2020s were apparently afraid of, writes columnist Fred Grimm.
Parents
‘War on woke’ might play in Iowa (or not) but has different effect on education in Florida
Saturday, February 17th, 2024
via The Florida Times-Union (Florida)Turning education into frontline of culture wars adds to challenges for Duval County hiring a superintendent and UNF growing enrollment.
Book Bans, Parent Involvement
School pronoun policies become debate as bills move through AZ legislature
Saturday, February 17th, 2024
via ABC15 Arizona (Arizona)Several bills pertaining to transgender youth have been going through the legislature over the last few years and now a Valley family is suing Mesa Public Schools over the use of pronouns in schools.
School Board – General, Parent Involvement
Westwood school board moves to revive gender policy. Critics call it ‘parental exclusion’
Saturday, February 17th, 2024
via NorthJersey (New Jersey)Tensions flared again at Thursday's board meeting, as a new majority moved to undo changes adopted by a "parental-rights" slate last year.
School Board – General, Parent Involvement
Second parental rights in education, courts passes Wyoming House committee
Friday, February 16th, 2024
via Wyoming Tribune Eagle (Wyoming)CHEYENNE - A second bill dealing with parental rights, this pertaining to education and Wyoming's court systems, passed through committee Friday.
Parents
‘It can happen anywhere.’ Indiana parents lost custody of trans teen, ask SCOTUS for help
Friday, February 16th, 2024
via The Indianapolis Star (Indiana)Couple who cited religious grounds for not supporting trans child removed by DCS argue more could lose parental rights without Supreme Court help.
Parents
When the archaeologists dig us up, it’ll be a scary sight
Friday, February 16th, 2024
via Sun Sentinel (Florida)From cocaine-addled bears to children's literature, people of the future may be confused at what the Floridians of the 2020s were apparently afraid of, writes columnist Fred Grimm.
Book Bans, Parent Involvement
School book challenges hijacked by ‘bad actors,’ DeSantis says
Friday, February 16th, 2024
via Tampa Bay Times (Florida)A roundup of Florida education news from around the state
School Board – General, Parent Involvement
DeSantis, ed officials blast Miami school about permission slips for Black history event
Friday, February 16th, 2024
via Orlando Sentinel (Florida)Florida Education Commissioner Manny Diaz and Gov. Ron DeSantis singled out the school as an example of how some local school officials have 'politicized' state laws.
School Board – General, Parent Involvement
Bill to protect the use of students’ chosen names in Colorado schools brings heated debate to state Capitol
Friday, February 16th, 2024
via Durango Herald (Colorado)Should K-12 schools in Colorado be required to use students' chosen names on unofficial documents such as rosters and student IDs, without a legal name change or parental notification? That question w...
School Board – General, LGBTQ+, Parent Involvement
Students sue over Va.’s controversial transgender policy in schools
Thursday, February 15th, 2024
via The Washington Post (Virginia)The ACLU of Virginia filed lawsuits on behalf of two transgender students, asking judges to vacate state guidance rolling back trans protections in schools.
School Board – General, Parent Involvement
DeSantis Slams News Media for Distorting State’s Policies on Books in Public Schools
Thursday, February 15th, 2024
via Florida Daily (Florida)Gov. Ron DeSantis hosted a press conference to contrast claims of book bans against the state's specific policy on books in public schools.
Book Bans, Parent Involvement