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Md. district, principal accused of sexual harassment settle suit for $300,000
Friday, May 24th, 2024
via The Washington PostJoel Beidleman was a principal in Montgomery County when reports by The Post described widespread allegations against the educator going back to 2016.
School Board – General
What comes next for Ohio’s teacher pension fund? Prospects of a ‘hostile takeover’ are being probed
Friday, May 24th, 2024
via The Associated PressA battle is under way for the future of Ohio's $94 billion teacher pension fund. The State Teachers Retirement System of Ohio is facing intense scrutiny, including state investigations and a lawsuit.
School Board – General
Where classrooms are becoming too hot for learning
Friday, May 24th, 2024
via The Washington PostAs heat waves creep north, they are baking schools that previously did not need air conditioning. Fixing the problem will be neither cheap, nor easy.
School Board – General
A stranger raced to give a Marine vet his final honor: A high school diploma
Friday, May 24th, 2024
via The Washington PostRichard Remp, a Marine veteran who served in the Vietnam War, received a high school diploma from a Pennsylvania superintendent days before his death.
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City’s red-light camera program was lawful after all, North Carolina justices say
Thursday, May 23rd, 2024
via The Associated PressA red-light camera program in one North Carolina city has been declared lawful, even though it was discontinued after another appeals court decided it was unconstitutional.
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Lawsuit seeks to block Washington parental rights law that critics call a ‘forced outing’ measure
Thursday, May 23rd, 2024
via The Associated PressYouth services and civil rights groups are suing to block a new Washington state parental rights law that is set to take effect next month.
School Board – General, Parent Involvement, Sex Education
Independent booksellers continued to expand in 2023, with more than 200 new stores opening
Thursday, May 23rd, 2024
via The Associated PressThe independent bookstore boom continues. Even as industry sales were slow in 2023, membership in the American Booksellers Association expanded strongly.
Book Bans
‘Tires’ Review: Shane Gillis’s Grease Monkey on Netflix
Thursday, May 23rd, 2024
via The Wall Street JournalThe comedian plays an automotive-center employee in this uneven, outrageous and occasionally hilarious sitcom.
Sex Education
NAACP fund seeks to close Black voter registration and turnout gaps ahead of the November election
Wednesday, May 22nd, 2024
via The Associated PressThe NAACP is announcing that nonprofits engaged in a variety of voter-engagement efforts can apply for grant funding that helps local organizations register voters, boost turnout and guard against minority disenfranchisement.
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Moms for Liberty to spend over $3 million targeting presidential swing state voters
Wednesday, May 22nd, 2024
via The Washington PostThe conservative parental rights group Moms for Liberty plans to spend more than $3 million on a multi-state advertising blitz to increase its membership and engage voters before November
Parent Involvement, School Board – General
Loudoun schools drops plan to add delayed-start days, seeks alternative
Tuesday, May 21st, 2024
via The Washington PostLoudoun County Public Schools is reconsidering a delay to the start of classes on 16 days in the next academic year for teacher training after community feedback.
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Minnesota Equal Rights Amendment fails in acrimonious end to legislative session
Monday, May 20th, 2024
via The Associated PressMinnesota lawmakers have failed to pass a state Equal Rights Amendment that would have enshrined protections for abortion and LGBTQ+ rights in the state Constitution.
Book Bans
Va. Gov. Youngkin vetoes bills on birth control, Confederate tax loopholes
Saturday, May 18th, 2024
via The Washington PostMany of the vetoes were related to culture-war issues that could play into this fall's presidential and congressional contests.
Parents
Noncitizen voting, already illegal in federal elections, becomes a centerpiece of 2024 GOP messaging
Saturday, May 18th, 2024
via The Associated PressIn recent months, the specter of noncitizens voting in the U.S. has erupted into a leading rallying cry for Republicans.
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Pennsylvania school district’s decision to cut song from student concert raises concerns
Friday, May 17th, 2024
via The Associated PressA Pennsylvania school district's decision to remove a song from a recent student choral concert has divided the community and spurred a review by a civil rights group.
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How Black parents in D.C. got segregation struck down 70 years ago
Friday, May 17th, 2024
via The Washington PostOn May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court ruled school segregation unconstitutional in Brown v. Board—and in the D.C. companion case Bolling v. Sharpe.
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Latinos found jobs and cheap housing in a Pennsylvania city but political power has proven elusive
Friday, May 17th, 2024
via The Associated PressA federal lawsuit argues the way representatives are elected to a local school board in Pennsylvania's coal region is unfairly shutting Latino voters out of power.
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Topeka was at the center of Brown v. Board. Decades later, segregation of another sort lingers
Thursday, May 16th, 2024
via The Associated PressThe school system in Topeka, Kansas, was at the center of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case that struck down segregated education 70 years ago.
Racism, School Board – General
After a borderland shootout, a 100-year-old battle for the truth
Wednesday, May 15th, 2024
via The Washington PostA century after three Tejano men were shot to death, the story descendants tell of their killing contradicts official accounts. Whose story counts as Texas history?
Racism