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What new laws will impact Alabama schools? Inside new discipline, $7,000 vouchers, graduation rules
Tuesday, May 28th, 2024
via al.com (Alabama)Alabama lawmakers set aside $100 million for families who don't want to send their children to traditional public schools.
Parent Involvement, School Safety
Arizona primary 2024: Here are the candidates running for the House of Representatives
Tuesday, May 28th, 2024
via The Arizona Republic (Arizona)Sixty seats in the Arizona House are up for grabs in 2024. Here's what you should know about the incumbents and challengers before the July 30 primary.
Racism, Parent Involvement
Yarmouth School Committee candidates weigh in on restricting student access to ‘controversial’ materials
Monday, May 27th, 2024
via Portland Press Herald (Maine)The four residents running for the Yarmouth School Committee weighed in at a recent candidate forum on perennial topics like the budget and how they approach compromise – but they also fielded a…
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Four seek GOP nomination to run for Wexton’s congressional seat
Saturday, May 25th, 2024
via Richmond Times-Dispatch (Virginia)Candidates compete on money, election experience and contrasting political philosophies in a race for the nomination to seek an open congressional seat in Northern Virginia.
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Ohio GOP lawmaker defends bill charging teachers with felonies for ‘pandering obscenity’ • Ohio Capital Journal
Friday, May 24th, 2024
via Ohio Capital Journal (Ohio)An Ohio Republican lawmaker is defending his controversial bill that would charge teachers and school district librarians with felonies for "pandering" so-called "obscene" material.
Book Bans, Parent Involvement
Lawsuit seeks to block Washington parental rights law that critics call a ‘forced outing’ measure
Thursday, May 23rd, 2024
via The Associated Press (Washington)Youth services and civil rights groups are suing to block a new Washington state parental rights law that is set to take effect next month.
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How much are Iowa House and Senate candidates raising, spending before the June 4 primary?
Thursday, May 23rd, 2024
via The Des Moines Register (Iowa)Republicans currently hold 64 seats in the Iowa House to Democrats' 36. And the GOP has a supermajority of 34-16 supermajority in the Iowa Senate.
School Board – General, Parent Involvement
California bill aims to end school gender notification policies — and protect teachers
Wednesday, May 22nd, 2024
via Los Angeles Times (California)The legislation is the latest attempt by Democrats to crack down on policies that require educators to notify parents whose children use a different gender at school.
School Board – General, Parent Involvement
Election year politics roil the EV transition
Wednesday, May 22nd, 2024
via OC Register (California)The U.S. auto industry faces a triple threat on the road to cleaner cars and trucks.
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Moms for Liberty to spend millions on campaign targeting Georgia voters
Wednesday, May 22nd, 2024
via FOX 5 Atlanta (Georgia)Conservative parental rights group Moms for Liberty is planning a multi-million dollar ad campaign targeting Georgia and three other states ahead of November's presidential election.
School Board – General, Parent Involvement
Moms for Liberty to spend over $3M targeting swing state voters
Wednesday, May 22nd, 2024
via PennLive (Pennsylvania)The conservative group's campaign specifically will target voters in Arizona, Georgia, North Carolina and Wisconsin, with plans to add Pennsylvania this fall.
School Board – General, Parent Involvement
Bridget Ziegler absent as public rallies against her at Sarasota School Board meeting
Wednesday, May 22nd, 2024
via Sarasota Herald-Tribune (Florida)Ahead of the meeting, new details emerged regarding Ziegler and her husband Christian hunting for sexual partners at bars taking pictures of women.
School Board – General, Parent Involvement
Moms for Liberty to spend over $3 million targeting presidential swing state voters
Wednesday, May 22nd, 2024
via The Associated Press (Pennsylvania)The 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.
Parents
Moms for Liberty to spend over $3 million targeting Nevada, other swing states
Wednesday, May 22nd, 2024
via Las Vegas Sun (Nevada)The 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, following…
School Board – General, Parent Involvement
3rd Congressional District candidate Joe Kent hosts town hall in Camas
Wednesday, May 22nd, 2024
via The Columbian (Washington)CAMAS — At a town hall event Tuesday morning, Republican 3rd Congressional District candidate Joe Kent declared that inflation, immigration and parental rights are the biggest issues facing the United
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Urgent search for kidnapped 7-year-old boy in Newton County
Tuesday, May 21st, 2024
via FOX 5 Atlanta (Georgia)Keshawn Royal James is believed to be in the company of 24-year-old Mya Mechelle Favors, who is his biological mother.
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The most shameful law Florida passed this year
Tuesday, May 21st, 2024
via Sun Sentinel (Florida)In the most shameful law Florida passed this year, Gov. Ron DeSantis and GOP lawmakers stripped counties of the right to require water and shade for employees who work in extreme heat. Not every South Florida Republican was pro-heat stroke. Here's the ones who were.
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Sex Ed Curriculum Transparency Bill Blocked In Senate Appropriations Committee
Tuesday, May 21st, 2024
via California Globe (California)A bill that would have increased sexual education curriculum transparency in schools was held by the Senate Appropriations Committee, blocking it from proceeding on to a full Senate vote in the near…
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Indy Education: Who are teacher unions backing in education races?
Tuesday, May 21st, 2024
via The Nevada Independent (Nevada)In this week's Indy Education newsletter, read about the Clark County School Board and State Board of Education candidates the state's two largest teachers unions are backing.
School Board – General, Parent Involvement