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Chicago mayor names new school board after entire panel resigns amid a fight over district control
Monday, October 7th, 2024
via The Associated PressChicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has appointed a new school board, days after all seven members resigned amid an escalating fight over control of the public schools in the nation's third-largest city.
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Cal Berkeley’s Calgorithm — social media and self-awareness in ‘the people’s program’
Sunday, October 6th, 2024
via The New York TimesBehold, the ballooning cultural clout of the Calgorithm, a guerilla-like social media movement that leans into sarcasm and stereotypes.
Racism
Pennsylvania school boards up window openings that allowed views into its gender-neutral bathrooms
Friday, October 4th, 2024
via The Associated PressA Pennsylvania school district has reversed course and boarded up window openings it recently installed that allowed people in a middle school hallway to peer into two gender-neutral-designated bathrooms.
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Takeaways from AP’s report on declining condom use among younger generations
Wednesday, October 2nd, 2024
via The Associated PressCondom usage is down among teens and young adults in the U.S. Medical advancements, a fading fear of contracting HIV and widely varying degrees of sex education in high schools all contribute to the trend.
Sex Education
Condoms aren’t a fact of life for young Americans. They’re an afterthought
Wednesday, October 2nd, 2024
via The Associated PressCondom use is down among sexually active teens and young adults. The decline in condom use is due to a combination of medical advancements like long-term birth control options and drugs that prevent sexually transmitted infections, a fading fear of contracting HIV and widely varying levels of sex ed
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Tim Walz says his son, Gus, witnessed a shooting at a rec center
Wednesday, October 2nd, 2024
via The Washington PostGov. Tim Walz (D) revealed while discussing gun violence during Tuesday's vice-presidential debate that his teenage son, Gus, had witnessed a shooting.
School Safety
Virginia school board to pay $575K to a teacher fired for refusing to use trans student’s pronouns
Tuesday, October 1st, 2024
via The Associated PressAn advocacy group says a Virginia school board has agreed to pay $575,000 in a settlement to a former high school teacher who was fired after he refused to use a transgender student's pronouns.
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JD Vance vowed to ‘never forget’ Middletown. Some say he already has.
Tuesday, October 1st, 2024
via The Washington PostJD Vance repeatedly rebuffed entreaties to work with groups in the hometown he made famous in 'Hillbilly Elegy,' according to dozens of interviews with locals and his private correspondence.
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Parents sue school district following wristband protest against transgender girl at soccer game
Tuesday, October 1st, 2024
via The Associated PressThree parents and a grandparent say their rights were violated when they were barred from a New Hampshire school's grounds for wearing wristbands in protest of a transgender girl playing in a girls soccer game.
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Va. school board settles with teacher fired for not using student’s pronouns
Tuesday, October 1st, 2024
via The Washington PostA Virginia school board agreed to pay a former teacher more than $500,000 after he was fired for declining to use the pronouns of a transgender student in 2018.
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She’s running with all she’s got for a seat she can’t win. That’s the point.
Monday, September 30th, 2024
via The Washington PostKate Barr is waging a sure-to-lose campaign for a seat in the N.C. legislature as a protest against gerrymandering, which has made elections uncompetitive in states nationwide.
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Vance criticized an infrastructure law as a candidate then embraced it as a senator
Monday, September 30th, 2024
via The Associated PressJD Vance once criticized a bipartisan 2021 law that invested billions in America's crumbling infrastructure.
Racism
D.C. area schools see rise in threats of violence, officials say
Saturday, September 28th, 2024
via The Washington PostFollowing school shootings in Georgia, D.C. area schools experienced a surge in violent threats, leading to heightened law enforcement presence.
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Her trans daughter made the volleyball team. Then an armed officer showed up.
Saturday, September 28th, 2024
via The Washington PostHalf the country has banned trans girls from competing in girls sports. Jessica Norton didn't suspect she'd be punished under one of the bans.
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A Wisconsin City Welcomed New Refugees. Then the Angry Billboards Went Up.
Saturday, September 28th, 2024
via The New York TimesEau Claire had a plan. But opponents, mostly from rural areas, were convinced that the newcomers would destroy their Midwestern way of life.
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Transcript: Ezra Klein Interviews Emily Jashinsky
Friday, September 27th, 2024
via The New York TimesThe Sept. 27. 2024, episode of 'The Ezra Klein Show.'
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Harris makes scandal-plagued Republican the star of her campaign to win North Carolina
Thursday, September 26th, 2024
via The Associated PressThere's an unlikely star in Kamala Harris' fight to make history in North Carolina: Mark Robinson, the state's scandal-plagued candidate for governor.
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Investigation launched into Wisconsin mayor who removed ballot drop box
Wednesday, September 25th, 2024
via The Washington PostThe Wausau mayor had unspecified concerns about his city's drop box, so he put on a hard hat and moved the box to his office using a handcart.
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Overseas voters are the latest target in Trump’s false narrative on election fraud
Wednesday, September 25th, 2024
via The Associated PressDonald Trump this week falsely accused Democrats of cheating their way to a win in November, using a bipartisan 1986 act to claim without evidence that anyone overseas can get a ballot emailed to them, even if they're not eligible to vote.
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