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School board wants to create legislative priority holding lawmakers accountable
Tuesday, July 2nd, 2024
via Newton Daily News (Iowa)Newton superintendent says he is tired of laws passing with no state guidance
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This San Francisco store ships LGBTQ+ books to places where they are banned
Sunday, June 30th, 2024
via Lincoln Journal Star (Nebraska)The books have gone to places like a Pride center in west Texas and an LGBTQ-friendly high school in Alabama.
Book Bans, Parent Involvement
A San Francisco store is shipping LGBTQ+ books to states where they are banned
Saturday, June 29th, 2024
via The Associated PressA bookstore in San Francisco is sending boxes of LGBTQ+ books to parts of the country where they are banned.
Book Bans, Parent Involvement
Doug Burgum vetoed anti-LGBTQ measures while governor. Then he started running for president
Saturday, June 29th, 2024
via The Washington PostFor most of North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum's two terms in office, he has approached the job like a CEO running a business
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How Black librarians helped create generations of Black literature
Sunday, June 23rd, 2024
via The Spokesman-Review (Washington)NEW YORK – It was a banner day in the history of American libraries – and in Black history. On May 25, 1926, the New York Public Library announced that it had acquired celebrated Afro-Latino…
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AP News Summary at 6:42 p.m. EDT
Saturday, June 22nd, 2024
via Clinton Herald (Iowa)Flooding forces people from homes in some parts of Iowa while much of US broils again in heat
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Books teach and inspire us. Banning them is anti-democratic.
Saturday, June 22nd, 2024
via Chicago Sun-Times (Illinois)People who read don't censor books, writes Natalie Moore, who talked with the former head of the American Library Association about the current wave of book bans across the country.
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Georgia student: Book bans deny teens full representation of their lives
Friday, June 21st, 2024
via Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Georgia)A recent high school graduate says the removal of books from his school library in Bartow County denies students books that speak to their lives and challenges.
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Letters: LGBTQ+ prejudice in theme parks
Wednesday, June 19th, 2024
via Orlando Sentinel (Florida)A transgender theme-park visitor writes that Florida's "don't say gay" and "stop WOKE" policies sparked a change in attitude toward her that persists to this day...
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Primaries set the stage for 7th District battle
Wednesday, June 19th, 2024
via Fredericksburg.com (Virginia)School Board – General, Book Bans
Howard County students were mostly quiet about book bans — until now
Tuesday, June 18th, 2024
via The Baltimore Banner (Maryland)Moms for Liberty is targeting more than three dozen titles for removal from Howard County school libraries.
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Exclusive poll: Black voters aren’t thrilled with Biden but dislike Trump more
Sunday, June 16th, 2024
via Detroit Free Press (Michigan)Even among 'double-haters' Biden is likely to gain more support than Trump, new USA TODAY poll shows.
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Over 60 books removed from local Iowa schools as case against book ban law continues
Sunday, June 16th, 2024
via Telegraph Herald (Iowa)While the constitutionality of an Iowa law banning from school library shelves books depicting sex acts continues its court battle, multiple local districts already have removed books from schools in
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Utah to release list of first-ever statewide banned books early August
Tuesday, June 11th, 2024
via The Salt Lake Tribune (Utah)Here's how books may be banned from Utah public schools statewide — and the fast track the process is on.
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‘Challenges our authority’: School board in Florida bans book about book bans
Tuesday, June 11th, 2024
via Sarasota Herald-Tribune (Florida)Indian River County School Board members, for example, said they disliked how it referenced other books that had been removed from schools.
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DeSantis raises teacher pay, blames unions for Florida’s education woes
Monday, June 10th, 2024
via The Palm Beach Post (Florida)Florida teachers will see an increase in salaries for the 2024-2025 school year, but the money came with a message.
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Former librarian, patrons at Kingsland Branch Library in Llano County fight book ban
Saturday, June 8th, 2024
via Austin American-Statesman (Texas)A new 5th Circuit ruling states that eight of 17 books that were removed must be returned to shelves and made available in library catalogs.
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Bismarck-Mandan legislative district races highlight split in state Republican Party
Saturday, June 8th, 2024
via The Bismarck Tribune (North Dakota)Bismarck-Mandan area voters will see multiple contested races in the upcoming Republican primary for seats in the state Legislature.
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Utah school board incumbent Matt Hymas faces Natalie Cline associate in GOP primary
Saturday, June 8th, 2024
via The Salt Lake Tribune (Utah)Incumbent Utah State Board of Education Member Matt Hymas will is being challenged for his District 10 seat by Monica Wilbur, an associate from censured USBE member Natalie Cline.
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