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Moms for Liberty-linked candidates win in school board races
Wednesday, November 6th, 2024
via The Nevada Independent (Nevada)Two candidates with ties to Moms for Liberty, a conservative group that has advocated for book bans and against policies that accommodate LGBTQ+ students, won their races on the Clark County School…
School Board – General, Book Bans, Parent Involvement
State education board votes to remove 7 books from all SC public school libraries
Tuesday, November 5th, 2024
via The Post and Courier (South Carolina)The State Board of Education voted to remove 7 books from South Carolina schools Nov. 5, confirming recommendations from a board committee's Oct. 31 review.
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Presidential outcomes and nonpartisan voters: The top 13 things to watch on Election Day in Nevada
Monday, November 4th, 2024
via The Nevada Independent (Nevada)Trump or Harris? How do nonpartisans break? The Nevada Independent breaks down the most compelling storylines we're following on decision day.
School Board – General, Book Bans, Parent Involvement
Banned rainbows and ‘forced outing.’ Will elections reshape this relentless school board?
Friday, November 1st, 2024
via Los Angeles Times (California)The Chino Valley Unified School District is racially diverse and politically mixed. But its school board sees itself as a triumph of conservative politics, often focused on LGBTQ+ issues, in blue…
School Board – General, Book Bans
‘Blatantly violative’: SC Board of Education committee votes to remove 7 books, retain 3
Thursday, October 31st, 2024
via The Greenville News (South Carolina)Here are the seven books that will no longer be available in classrooms or school libraries
School Board – General, Book Bans
Librarians Face a Crisis of Violence and Abuse
Thursday, October 31st, 2024
via The New York Times (California)As libraries become public stages for social problems — homelessness, drug use, mental health — the people who work there are burning out.
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Clyburn weighs in as partisan politics seep into closely-fought Columbia school board race
Wednesday, October 30th, 2024
via The Post and Courier (South Carolina)Robocalls from U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn urged Columbia voters to reelect incumbent school board candidates as Richland One candidates campaign over local issues.
School Board – General, Book Bans
SC education board’s first book hearing to include ‘1984,’ ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’
Monday, October 28th, 2024
via The Post and Courier (South Carolina)A SC board is holding a preemptive hearing on 11 books to to establish 'consistent, common-sense' guidelines for book challenges under new book-ban regulation.
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Beyond campuses and churches, can Charlie Kirk turn out votes for Trump?
Thursday, October 24th, 2024
via Nevada Public Radio (Nevada)Conservative influencer Charlie Kirk has focused his political organization on winning Trump another turn. But many longtime Republicans are concerned about the group's effectiveness.
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Greenville County Schools to resume book fairs in 2025
Wednesday, October 23rd, 2024
via The Greenville News (South Carolina)After pausing book fairs in August, the district has established rules for vendors, how books will be vetted and communicated to parents
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A Texas county called a history book about Native Americans in Massachusetts fiction. It reversed itself after an outcry.
Wednesday, October 23rd, 2024
via The Boston Globe (Massachusetts)A Texas county backtracked after widespread criticism when it said a children's book on Native American history in Massachusetts was fiction.
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Texas county reverses classification of Indigenous history book as fiction
Wednesday, October 23rd, 2024
via The Washington Post (Massachusetts)A Montgomery County committee caused an outcry after labelling 'Colonization and the Wampanoag story,' a children's Native American history book, as fiction.
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Lear finds passion in the state school board grind
Tuesday, October 22nd, 2024
via The Park Record (Utah)The real work of the state school board is far more about making sausage than grabbing headlines, notwithstanding the occasional flare-up in the cultural wars. Carol Lear, one of two Democrats in the…
School Board – General, Book Bans, Sex Education
When real history gets recast as ‘fiction,’ it’s another form of book-banning
Tuesday, October 22nd, 2024
via Chicago Sun-Times (Illinois)A committee without credentials in Montgomery County, Texas, decided a historical work about Indigenous people, "Colonization and the Wampanoag Story" was fiction. It's an extension of book banning,…
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Florida school board members don’t have to testify in book ban lawsuit
Tuesday, October 22nd, 2024
via Tampa Bay Times (Florida)A roundup of Florida education news from around the state
School Board – General, Book Bans
Freedom to Read Day of Action brings dozens to the South Orange Public Library Baird Branch
Monday, October 21st, 2024
via TAPinto (New Jersey)Join the fight against book bans! South Orange Library hosts event for Freedom to Read Day, advocating for open access to knowledge.
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Requests for new injunction filed in lawsuits over Iowa’s book ban law, Senate File 496
Monday, October 21st, 2024
via The Des Moines Register (Iowa)Plaintiffs suing Iowa over its book ban law are again asking a judge to put a temporary block on Senate File 496.
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VOTER GUIDE: Chariho School Committee
Monday, October 21st, 2024
via The Westerly Sun (Rhode Island)Book Bans
Libraries see disconnect between use and popularity
Saturday, October 19th, 2024
via Greenwood Commonwealth (Mississippi)People's opinion of public libraries is as high as ever, but that isn't translating into library visits and usage.
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