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Sparta BOE to vote on controversial proposals to select, challenge library material
Thursday, July 20th, 2023
via New Jersey Herald (New Jersey)The board was due to vote Thursday on the second reading of two proposals, both of which advanced by a 6-1 margin at the June 15 meeting.
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Meet the 2024 self-funded candidates armed with $51 million in personal war chest cash
Thursday, July 20th, 2023
via The Gazette (Colorado)Over a dozen candidates seeking the White House or Congress in 2024 are armed with over $51 million in combined war chest cash they gifted or loaned to their campaigns,
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Are men entering women’s locker rooms at rec centers? Council member wants answers.
Thursday, July 20th, 2023
via The Salt Lake Tribune (Utah)Salt Lake County Council member Dea Theodore wants an explicit policy barring men from using women's locker rooms at county recreation facilities.
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Incumbent, teachers’ union voice concerns over Medical Lake School Board Election
Thursday, July 20th, 2023
via The Spokesman Review (Washington)Laura Parsons is running for another 4-year term serving in Position 2 on the Medical Lake School Board. Her three opponents in the primary could not be reached for comment.
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Florida officials approve new rules regarding gender identity, bathrooms in schools
Thursday, July 20th, 2023
via CBS News (Pennsylvania)One bans teachers from classroom instruction on gender identity or sexual orientation until after eighth grade.
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Va.’s trans student policies bring uncertainty, worry for LGBTQ+ students
Wednesday, July 19th, 2023
via The Washington Post (Maryland)The new guidelines, finalized this week by the administration of Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R), could lead to a patchwork of responses from school boards across the state, experts say.
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Minnesota native with Air Force, national defense background buys Rochester Grizzlies, Austin Bruins
Wednesday, July 19th, 2023
via PostBulletin.com (Minnesota)Brian Raduenz is a former U.S. Air Force Lt. Colonel and Division I athlete. He's the CEO of a cutting-edge aerospace company. And he's now the owner of the Rochester Grizzlies and Austin Bruins.
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Youngkin administration’s transgender student policies a new spark in heated Virginia debate
Wednesday, July 19th, 2023
via The Virginian-Pilot (Virginia)Among the issues addressed in the model policies are student identification, counseling practices and bathroom use.
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Move Faster to Help Special Education Students, Judge Tells New York
Wednesday, July 19th, 2023
via The New York Times (New York)The city is often ordered to provide services to students with disabilities. But for two decades, thousands of families have faced long delays in receiving them.
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Palm Beach County school leaders vote to keep Bible in libraries after parent challenge
Wednesday, July 19th, 2023
via Palm Beach Post (Florida)Parent Involvement, Book Bans, School Board – General
Virginia finalizes rule requiring parental consent for school gender transitions
Wednesday, July 19th, 2023
via The Gazette (Colorado)The Virginia Department of Education honored parental rights in new model policies on how schools should respond to children who claim to identify as transgender.
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‘I am Billie Jean King’ book challenge hearing will be decided soon. Here’s the recommendation to the board.
Wednesday, July 19th, 2023
via Palm Beach Post (Florida)An official Leon County Schools picked to review a book challenge to
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‘I am Billie Jean King’ challenge: Hearing officer makes recommendation on book’s fate
Wednesday, July 19th, 2023
via Herald-Tribune (Florida)Parent Involvement, School Board – General
The sick strategy of smearing moms as Nazis
Wednesday, July 19th, 2023
via Washington Examiner (District of Columbia)'I like Hitler,' New York Times columnist David French said in a recent podcast while explaining that there are 'countless reasons' to read the German dictator's book Mein Kampf. Anyone who isn't politically demented or arguing in bad faith might pause before concluding from that snippet that…
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Florida officials to approve new rules regarding gender identity, internet use in schools
Wednesday, July 19th, 2023
via WESH (Florida)New rules dealing with gender identity and internet use in schools are expected to be approved by state officials meeting in Orlando Wednesday.
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New College of Florida struggles through overhaul
Wednesday, July 19th, 2023
via Tampa Bay Times (Florida)A roundup of Florida education news from around the state
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Doctors, families, youth seek injunction to stop Montana’s law banning gender-affirming care
Wednesday, July 19th, 2023
via Daily Inter Lake (Montana)Attorneys for doctors, families and transgender minors have counted the ways that Senate Bill 99, which bans gender-affirming care for those less than 18 in Montana, violates the state and federal…
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Trump zings Biden — not DeSantis — during town hall
Wednesday, July 19th, 2023
via POLITICO (New York)Parents
Marguerite Cortez running for Sioux City School Board seat
Tuesday, July 18th, 2023
via Sioux City Journal (Iowa)Margo Cortez announced on Tuesday she will run for one of the four, four-year terms that will open on the school board this fall, according to a news release.
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