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Didn’t we learn from COVID? NJ families fear new rules could lock out unvaccinated kids
Friday, October 10th, 2025
via New Jersey 101.5 (New Jersey)Parents
How a Texas group is positioning itself as a Republican alternative to teachers unions
Friday, October 10th, 2025
via Houston Chronicle (Texas)Parents
Q&A with Coronda Ziegler, who is running for District D seat on the Poudre school board
Friday, October 10th, 2025
via Fort Collins Coloradoan (Colorado)School Board – General, Parent Involvement
Bad Takes: It’s up to San Antonio residents to push back at extremist book bans
Thursday, October 9th, 2025
via San Antonio Current (Texas)One group has counted 16,000 public-school book bans since 2021, 'a number not seen since the Red Scare McCarthy era of the 1950s.'
School Board – General, Book Bans, Parent Involvement
Texas appeals court again pauses execution of Robert Roberson in shaken baby case
Thursday, October 9th, 2025
via The Associated Press (Texas)Texas' top criminal court has again paused the execution of Robert Roberson, just days before he had been set to become the first person in the U.S. put to death in a shaken baby case.
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Supporters of Bay Area college volleyball player turn out in droves at rally by anti-trans groups
Thursday, October 9th, 2025
via The Mercury News (California)Earlier this week, a coalition of groups pushing back against transgender participation in women's sports announced that they'd be holding a rally outside of the Santa Rosa Junior College's g…
LGBTQ+, Parent Involvement
What to know about efforts to ban books in Arizona schools, libraries
Thursday, October 9th, 2025
via The Arizona Republic (Arizona)Banned Books Week highlights efforts to limit access to books, but the debate often results in people talking past, not to, each other.
Book Bans, Parent Involvement, LGBTQ+
Bipartisan group of Texas lawmakers visit death row inmate Robert Roberson days before execution
Wednesday, October 8th, 2025
via KXAN (Texas)LIVINGSTON, Texas (KETK) — A bipartisan group of state representatives is currently visiting the Polunsky Unit in Livingston to show support for death row inmate Robert Roberson, just days before his scheduled execution. Those in attendance include State Reps. John Bucy (D-Austin), Jeff Leach (R-Allen), Lacey Hull (R-Houston) and Rhetta Bowers (D-Rowlett), all of whom […]
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Investigation underway after vandalism reported at church before Turning Point USA event
Wednesday, October 8th, 2025
via WHNT CBS 19 (Alabama)An investigation is underway after a church was vandalized ahead of a Turning Point USA event in Madison County.
Parents
Trump’s education department is working to erode the public school system • Louisiana Illuminator
Wednesday, October 8th, 2025
via Louisiana Illuminator (Louisiana)ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Education Secretary Linda McMahon has been clear about her desire to shut down the agency she runs. She's laid off half the staff and joked about padlocking the door. She calls it […]
Book Bans, LGBTQ+, Parent Involvement
George Takei speaks out against censorship at BPL Banned Books Week event
Wednesday, October 8th, 2025
via amNewYork (New York)As the First Amendment faces growing challenges, the Brooklyn Public Library (BPL) welcomed American actor, author and activist George Takei for an unscripted conversation on censorship at the Central…
Book Bans, Parent Involvement
Parents Beware: The Truth Behind California’s Mandatory LGBTQ Lessons
Wednesday, October 8th, 2025
via California Globe (California)As California school districts discuss how to implement opt outs due to the U.S. Supreme Court decision affirming parents' right to withdraw children from discussions on LGBTQ+ issues that conflict…
School Board – General, Parent Involvement, Sex Education
Moms for Liberty shows muscle in SC as statewide hopefuls pledge their support
Wednesday, October 8th, 2025
via The Sun News (South Carolina)Moms for Liberty, a conservative leaning advocacy group, with activists volunteering to run the organization, has grown its influence with chapters in 48 states. The group arrived South Carolina in 2021, and has 16 active chapters and 4,000 members in the state.
School Board – General, Parent Involvement
A judge has blocked a Trump administration effort to change teen pregnancy prevention programs
Tuesday, October 7th, 2025
via Muscatine Journal (Iowa)A judge has blocked new requirements for teen pregnancy prevention grantees. The case is a victory for Planned Parenthood affiliates who sued President Donald Trump's administration over policy guidance issued
Parents
Children’s Home Society of West Virginia gets go-ahead to apply for grant
Tuesday, October 7th, 2025
via Parkersburg News and Sentinel (West Virginia)PARKERSBURG — The Wood County Commission is providing support to the Children's Home Society of West Virginia to apply for a grant to help with foster care programs as well as providing some financial…
Parents
VPA, VLNP voter guide: Republican nominee for lieutenant governor John Reid
Monday, October 6th, 2025
via Fredericksburg.com (Virginia)The lieutenant governor of Virginia presides over the state Senate and is first in line to succeed the governor.
Parents
Uthmeier asks US Supreme Court to review school gender case
Monday, October 6th, 2025
via The Florida Times-Union (Florida)Florida's attorney general has joined with 21 other states in siding with a Tallahassee couple in a case about parental rights.
School Board – General, Parent Involvement
Mikie Sherrill Flew to California as Government Shutdown Loomed to Interview with Hollywood Podcaster
Monday, October 6th, 2025
via Shore News Network (New Jersey)Los Angeles, CA – As Washington braced for a full federal shutdown last week, Rep. Mikie Sherrill was apparently three time zones away — seated in a Los
Parents
Governor still deliberating on vaccine bill passed by legislature
Monday, October 6th, 2025
via NM Political Report (New Mexico)By Alex Ross, NM Political Report — Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham is still contemplating what action to take on a bill passed during last week's special legislative session that would temporarily…
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