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Biological Boys in Women’s Sports: Women and Student Athletes Address California Interscholastic Federation Board Meeting
Thursday, March 13th, 2025
via California Globe (California)Will California continue to defy Trump's order banning transgender women, girls in school sports?
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Federal Appeals Court Dismisses Florida Case Over Gender Identity in Schools
Thursday, March 13th, 2025
via The New York Times (Florida)The mother at the center of the case, January Littlejohn, was a guest of the first lady Melania Trump at President Trump's speech to Congress last week.
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Rep. Duchow: Votes for public safety
Thursday, March 13th, 2025
via WisPolitics.com (Wisconsin)Madison, WI – Today, State Representative Cindi Duchow (R-Delafield) voted with her colleagues in the Assembly to approve a public safety package that focuses on increasing penalties for certain crimes including reckless driving, intentional harm to a police or fire...
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Greg Abbott cites debunked claim that public schools catered to ‘furries’ in latest voucher push
Thursday, March 13th, 2025
via Houston Chronicle (Texas)The governor's remarks seemed to call back unfounded rumors that public schools across the country were catering to students who identified as animals.
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Greg Abbott releases details on TEA probe into HISD’s Bellaire High over student pronoun allegations
Thursday, March 13th, 2025
via Houston Chronicle (Texas)Gov. Abbott called for Bellaire High School employees to be investigated for child "abuse or neglect" after allegedly calling a student by different pronouns.
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‘Parental rights’ or ‘book banning zealots’? RI bill opens up culture war over school libraries.
Thursday, March 13th, 2025
via The Providence Journal (Rhode Island)This year's Freedom to Read bill has opened a crack in the culture wars around book banning.
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Students with disabilities may receive less support after Education Department layoffs
Thursday, March 13th, 2025
via NBC New York (New York)The layoffs are the first step toward dismantling the department, a goal espoused by President Trump and his education secretary, Linda McMahon.
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What Education Dept. layoffs mean for students with disabilities
Thursday, March 13th, 2025
via NBC Chicago (Illinois)The layoffs are the first step toward dismantling the department, a goal espoused by President Trump and his education secretary, Linda McMahon.
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Court rules against Florida parents in school gender case that gained national attention
Thursday, March 13th, 2025
via Orlando Sentinel (Florida)The Tallahassee mother who sued sat with First Lady Melania Trump during President Trump's address to Congress last week.
School Board – General, Parent Involvement
In Annapolis, Democrats foolishly stick to DEI READER COMMENTARY
Thursday, March 13th, 2025
via The Baltimore Sun (Maryland)Maryland Democrats offer pro-DEI non-binding resolution that will risk federal funding while accomplishing nothing for the state.
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Republicans and Democrats have tense debate over bill to ban gender-affirming care for youth • Wisconsin Examiner
Thursday, March 13th, 2025
via Wisconsin Examiner (Wisconsin)This is the fourth bill related to transgender youth to get a hearing in the Wisconsin Assembly in the last two weeks.
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Morrisey signs anti-trans ‘gender definition’ bill into law
Wednesday, March 12th, 2025
via The Herald-Dispatch (West Virginia)Gov. Patrick Morrisey on Wednesday signed into law his priority bill defining 'men' and 'women."
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Partisan politics infiltrating non-partisan local Illinois elections
Wednesday, March 12th, 2025
via Quad-City Times (Illinois)Though municipal and school board races in Illinois are nonpartisan, voters may see many of the same political themes that were hallmarks of races during the 2024 presidential election cycle.
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Partisan support divided among six candidates for Cedarburg School Board
Wednesday, March 12th, 2025
via Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Wisconsin)School board races are nonpartisan. Nevertheless, the six candidates running for Cedarburg School Board have found themselves supported by partisan groups.
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Wheeler High School students get firsthand look at judicial system
Tuesday, March 11th, 2025
via The Times (Indiana)A panel of Indiana Court of Appeal judges heard oral arguments of an actual case in front of around 60 students at Wheeler High School on Tuesday.
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Suit claims Pa. Human Relations Commission’s LGBTQ+ protections are unconstitutional • Pennsylvania Capital-Star
Tuesday, March 11th, 2025
via Pennsylvania Capital-Star (Pennsylvania)The suit claims PHRC 'created a heretofore unimagined meaning of 'sex' within the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.'
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School choice debate intensifies at Texas House
Tuesday, March 11th, 2025
via FOX 7 Austin (Texas)The school choice debate intensified on Tuesday. Those for and against the idea faced off during a committee hearing in the state house.
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Education Department Plans to Fire Up to Half Its Staff
Tuesday, March 11th, 2025
via The New York Times (New York)The layoffs mean that the department will now have a work force of about half the size it did when President Trump took office.
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‘We’re disposable’: Supporters rally outside Department of Education’s DC offices
Tuesday, March 11th, 2025
via WTOP (District of Columbia)Dozens of supporters rallied outside the Department of Education's D.C. headquarters as the agency faces cuts and even possible dismantling under Trump.
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