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Florida law blasted after permission slip sent to hear Black author’s book
Thursday, February 15th, 2024
via The Washington PostA parental bill of rights signed by Ron DeSantis in 2022 is under renewed scrutiny after a school asked for parental consent for a guest speaker to read a book written by an African American.
Parents
Georgia Senate passes plan meant to slow increases in property tax bills
Thursday, February 15th, 2024
via The Associated PressGeorgia senators want to limit how much assessed home values can rise for tax purposes, in an election-year effort to hold down property taxes.
School Board – General
Utah school board seeks resignation of member who questioned athlete’s gender
Thursday, February 15th, 2024
via The Associated PressThe Utah State Board of Education has voted to censure and seek the resignation of a board member whose social media post questioning the gender of a high school basketball player incited threats against the girl.
School Board – General
Steady ascent or sudden splash? North Carolina governor’s race features men who took different paths
Thursday, February 15th, 2024
via The Associated PressFront-runners for North Carolina's major-party nominations for governor in next month's primaries have taken dramatically different paths to prominence.
Sex Education
Trans adults on edge as legislatures broaden focus beyond children
Thursday, February 15th, 2024
via The Washington PostLawmakers have filed a record number of bills impacting how transgender people live their lives. Increasingly, they are turning their focus to trans adults.
LGBTQ+
‘How to Have Sex’: A movie made to get audiences talking about consent
Thursday, February 15th, 2024
via The Washington Post'How to Have Sex' writer-director Molly Manning Walker and star Mia McKenna-Bruce discuss bad sex education, drunken holidays and taking the film into schools.
Sex Education
Teacher sued over accusations he tried to sell junior high students’ art
Wednesday, February 14th, 2024
via The Washington PostThe students were told to make a piece in the style of Basquiat. Then they found their art for sale online on almost 3,000 items, such as cushions and bags.
School Board – General
Democrats seek to strengthen majority in Pennsylvania House as voters cast ballots
Tuesday, February 13th, 2024
via The Associated PressDemocrats have an opportunity to strengthen their hold on the Pennsylvania House as voters cast their ballots in Bucks County.
School Board – General
School board member who questioned teen’s gender faces calls to resign
Monday, February 12th, 2024
via The Washington PostNatalie Cline, a Republican member of the Utah State Board of Education, erroneously implied that a girls' basketball player was transgender, eliciting calls for her to resign.
School Board – General, LGBTQ+
MAGA label dogs candidate for key state House seat in Pennsylvania
Sunday, February 11th, 2024
via The Washington PostCandace Cabanas is walking a tricky tightrope between firing up Donald Trump's base and distancing herself from the former president with state House control at stake.
School Board – General, Book Bans
Lost at Parkland: ‘Peter Was Always My Translator’
Sunday, February 11th, 2024
via The New York TimesFor one family, grieving the child they lost in the Parkland, Fla., school shooting is complicated by differences in language and culture.
School Board – General
How anarchists in North Carolina rescued books banned in Florida
Saturday, February 10th, 2024
via The Washington PostA bookshop in left-leaning Asheville is now sending children's books banned from a Florida school district back to readers in the Sunshine State.
Book Bans, Racism, Parent Involvement
Republican lawmakers are backing dozens of bills targeting diversity efforts on campus and elsewhere
Saturday, February 10th, 2024
via The Associated PressDiversity initiatives would be defunded or banned from universities and other public institutions under a slate of bills pending in Republican-led legislatures, with some lawmakers counting on the issue resonating with voters in this election year.
Racism
How a liberal billionaire became America’s leading anti-DEI crusader
Saturday, February 10th, 2024
via The Washington PostBill Ackman used Wall Street tactics to oust Harvard's first Black president, part of a wave of business leaders attacking diversity initiatives spurred by George Floyd's death.
Racism
Council members admonish Montgomery school officials’ handling of misconduct reports
Friday, February 9th, 2024
via The Washington PostMontgomery County Council members reprimanded the school system for its handling of employees' misconduct reports over several years during a meeting Thursday.
School Board – General
AP Decision Note: What to expect in the latest Pennsylvania House special election
Friday, February 9th, 2024
via The Associated PressControl of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives hangs in the balance in a special election in the Philadelphia suburbs.
School Board – General
Kansas’ AG is telling schools they must out trans kids to parents, even with no specific law
Friday, February 9th, 2024
via The Associated PressKansas' attorney general is telling public schools that they're required to tell parents their children are transgender or non-binary even if they're not out at home.
School Board – General
Utah governor says school board member who questioned a student’s gender ‘embarrassed the state’
Friday, February 9th, 2024
via The Associated PressUtah's Republican governor and other state officials are calling out a conservative state school board member for insinuating in an online post that a member of a girl's high school basketball team was transgender, when in fact she is not.
School Board – General
A West Virginia ‘Women’s Bill of Rights’ is an effort to suppress transgender people, critics say
Thursday, February 8th, 2024
via The Washington PostDozens of speakers have condemned a bill in the West Virginia Legislature that would narrow the definitions of gender
School Board – General, LGBTQ+