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Utah’s longtime schools leader to resign, seek ‘other opportunities’
Friday, January 10th, 2025
via The Salt Lake Tribune (Utah)Utah's state superintendent Sydnee Dickson told staffers in an email that she plans to leave her job overseeing public K-12 education after nearly a decade to seek 'other opportunities to support public education.'
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Librarians gain protections in some states as book bans soar • New Hampshire Bulletin
Friday, January 10th, 2025
via New Hampshire Bulletin (New Hampshire)Karen Grant and fellow school librarians throughout New Jersey have heard an increasingly loud chorus of parents and conservative activists demanding that certain books – often about race, gender, and…
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Josephine County commissioners terminate lease with Grants Pass Library
Thursday, January 9th, 2025
via Oregon Public Broadcasting (Oregon)In one of their first moves as a newly reconfigured board, the Josephine County commissioners unanimously decided to terminate the county's lease with the Grants Pass Library. This puts the library's…
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Katy ISD students denied access to more than 400 LGBTQ books that haven’t officially been banned.
Wednesday, January 8th, 2025
via Houston Chronicle (Texas)Katy ISD librarians have been instructed to steer students away from more than 400 books with LGBTQ+ themes, records show.
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New indie bookstore brings a ‘safe space’ for free speech to Utah mountain hamlet
Wednesday, January 8th, 2025
via The Salt Lake Tribune (Utah)Folklore bookshop is officially open in Midway.
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Librarians gain protections in some states as book bans soar • Ohio Capital Journal
Wednesday, January 8th, 2025
via Ohio Capital Journal (Ohio)Amid a national rise in book bans in school libraries and new laws in red states that threaten criminal penalties against librarians, a growing number of blue states are passing laws to protect…
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Jan. 6, 2025 turned out to be peaceful after all. That’s good news for our republic.
Tuesday, January 7th, 2025
via Tennessean (Tennessee)While the presidential vote count in Congress was peaceful in 2025, let's never forget history. Plus, read about small businesses and school vouchers.
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Lawson has her lesson plan ready for the R.I. Senate
Tuesday, January 7th, 2025
via Providence Business News (Rhode Island)Sen. Valarie Lawson looks almost uncomfortable when she initially sits down for an interview in a third-floor R.I. Senate office in early December. She smiles, looking down at the table. But her shyness evaporates as soon as the discussion turns to topics the East Providence Democrat is most passionate about. Lawson's hands dance wildly as […]
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Lawmakers file the first bills of New Mexico’s 2025 legislative session
Tuesday, January 7th, 2025
via Las Cruces Sun-News (New Mexico)Legislators started putting forward proposals known as prefiles Thursday.
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Texas school district rescinds Bible ban; Republican-backed book ban stands
Wednesday, January 1st, 2025
via San Antonio Express-News (Texas)After citing a Republican-backed law to initiate a Bible ban, Canyon Independent School District announced the religious text will stay.
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These NY and NJ laws will take effect in 2025
Tuesday, December 31st, 2024
via NBC New York (New York)Here's a review of some of the most impactful pieces of legislation taking effect in 2024, affecting everything from health and salary.
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Greg Locke, Tim Hortons, In-N-Out, book bans, tractors: 2024 Wilson County newsmakers
Monday, December 30th, 2024
via Tennessean (Tennessee)While growth in Wilson County brought more traffic headaches and increased rooftops, it also drew much-anticipated new businesses.
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NH poised for school bills battle in 2025: Freedom accounts, parental rights, bullying
Monday, December 30th, 2024
via Seacoastonline.com (New Hampshire)GOP controls NH state government as bills on Education Freedom Accounts, bullying, cellphone use and more are drafted. Teachers union speaks up.
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St. Francis school board gets pushback on controversial book buying plan
Friday, December 27th, 2024
via MPR News (Minnesota)Board members in the district north of the Twin Cities are under pressure to rethink their plan to use a conservative website to help choose books to buy for school libraries. Their superintendent…
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Judge rules Arkansas law threatening librarians with jail unconstitutional
Thursday, December 26th, 2024
via The Spokesman-Review (Washington)A federal judge on Monday struck down key parts of an Arkansas law that threatened librarians and booksellers with imprisonment if they were found to have provided 'harmful' content to a minor.
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The Best and Worst of Arkansas 2024
Monday, December 23rd, 2024
via Arkansas Times (Arkansas)This year's headline makers bring to mind senior superlatives, those coveted titles for the prettiest and wittiest among the high school graduating class. Awarding the grown-up equivalents of Best…
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Melissa Jacques’ most memorable stories of 2024
Monday, December 23rd, 2024
via Tulsa World (Oklahoma)Tulsa World Capitol Bureau Writer Melissa Jacques wrote 184 stories in 2024. She picks her five most memorable and shares her thoughts on them.
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The wall of separation, church and state – Herb Weiss
Sunday, December 22nd, 2024
via Rhode Island news (Rhode Island)Rhode Island news The wall of separation, church and state - Herb Weiss
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To ‘understand the human condition,’ this anthropologist embedded with migrant smugglers
Saturday, December 21st, 2024
via Los Angeles Times (California)In his new book, 'Soldiers and Kings,' Jason De Leon offers insights from the seven years in which he was embedded with migrant smugglers.
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