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Trial set for OPI candidate Allen, while she defends actions as ‘bold stand for parental rights’

Tuesday, May 7th, 2024

via Daily Inter Lake (Montana)

A Republican candidate for state school superintendent faces a jury trial for obstructing a peace officer, but she continues to lead her district, and she defends the actions that led to her arrest as…

School Board – General, Parent Involvement

Meet the candidates for the Clark County School District board

Monday, May 6th, 2024

via Las Vegas Review-Journal (Nevada)

Candidates for the Clark County School District board share their views.

School Board – General, Parent Involvement

Judge dismisses mom’s lawsuit against Maine school over her child’s gender transition

Monday, May 6th, 2024

via Bangor Daily News (Maine)

Amber Lavigne accused the school district of violating her constitutional rights and withholding information about her child's transition.

School Board – General, Parent Involvement

At USF, protests pause for graduation celebration

Monday, May 6th, 2024

via Tampa Bay Times (Florida)

A roundup of Florida education news from around the state

School Board – General, Parent Involvement

Church, state and elementary school: Christian club at Florida school spurs backlash

Monday, May 6th, 2024

via Sarasota Herald-Tribune (Florida)

Hamilton County Elementary School removed its Christian club after backlash from the Freedom From Religion Foundation. Now a religious group is upset.

Parents

Bill to force educators to respond to parental inquiries on sensitive information on their kids rejected again

Sunday, May 5th, 2024

via The Union Leader (New Hampshire)

CONCORD — Teachers and school administrators will not be required to respond to parents' inquiries about sensitive information concerning their children, with the death of a bill in the New

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Alexis Aldamir, mom to babies found in South Boston freezer, concealed 5 pregnancies, authorities say

Sunday, May 5th, 2024

via The Boston Globe (Massachusetts)

After the remains were found in 2022, Alexis Aldamir's brother told investigators that when she was 19 years old she would discuss having a tubal ligation surgery, which would have 'permanently prevented her from becoming pregnant,' court records show.

Parents

Louisiana voters so far approve of Jeff Landry’s politics, poll shows. Here’s why.

Sunday, May 5th, 2024

via The Times-Picayune (Louisiana)

Focusing on hot-button issues including crime and education, our governor has made some headline-grabbing decisions in his first months in office. In our exclusive poll, voters share what they support and where they think Jeff Landry has work to do.

Parents

Mandatory reporting laws meant to protect children get another look

Friday, May 3rd, 2024

via OC Register (California)

There are efforts in states to roll back these laws, saying the result has been too many unfounded reports.

Parents

DeSantis signs bill making it harder for banks to drop customers

Friday, May 3rd, 2024

via Orlando Sentinel (Florida)

Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a law Thursday making it harder for banks to drop customers and creating a state liaison to field Floridians' complaints with the Internal Revenue Service.

Parents

Bridget Ziegler to ask school board to reject new Title IX protections for gender identity

Friday, May 3rd, 2024

via Sarasota Herald-Tribune (Florida)

Bridget Ziegler's resolution states that sex is "is an immutable characteristic that cannot be changed, fluid, or altered."

School Board – General, Parent Involvement

Cash pumped into NEISD election showdown: $138K and counting

Thursday, May 2nd, 2024

via San Antonio Express-News (Texas)

In the struggle to control Bexar County's second-largest school system, a pair of conservative PACs outspent a group backing moderates by nearly 7 to 1.

School Board – General, Parent Involvement, Sex Education

DeSantis signs bill targeting banks and creating IRS liaison for Floridians

Thursday, May 2nd, 2024

via Tampa Bay Times (Florida)

The bill would make it harder for banks to drop customers.

Parents

Florida abortion providers say they must now send patients out-of-state to access care

Wednesday, May 1st, 2024

via WPLG (Florida)

Starting Wednesday, local abortion providers will be working with funders to figure out how to get patients to clinics in northern states with the Sunshine State's six-week ban taking effect.

Parents

Nate Monroe: In Jacksonville, one of Florida’s largest school districts is crumbling

Wednesday, May 1st, 2024

via The Florida Times-Union (Florida)

Florida is inexorably moving away from traditional public schools, a transformation that has at long last begun to touch every corner of Jacksonville

School Board – General, Parent Involvement

What Anne Arundel County school board candidates think about book bans

Wednesday, May 1st, 2024

via The Baltimore Banner (Maryland)

Anne Arundel voters will decide May 14 which candidates advance in the race for a seat on the school board, the body that sets policies around school reading materials.

School Board – General, Book Bans, Parent Involvement

Protect Kids California Sues AG Rob Bonta for Mislabeling their Proposed Ballot Initiative

Tuesday, April 30th, 2024

via California Globe (California)

Protect Kids California, a parental rights group, has sued state Attorney General Rob Bonta for mislabeling their proposed ballot initiative that would counter transgender orthodoxy and the rush to…

Parents

ADF attorneys file suit on behalf of Rapides Parish School Board

Tuesday, April 30th, 2024

via WGNO (Louisiana)

On behalf of a Louisiana school board serving more than 20,000 students, Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against the Biden administration for unlawfully rewriti…

School Board – General, Parent Involvement

Lewis Black comes home to DC’s Kennedy Center for ‘Goodbye Yeller Brick Road, The Final Tour’

Tuesday, April 30th, 2024

via WTOP (District of Columbia)

This Friday, D.C. native Lewis Black comes home to the Kennedy Center for his 'Goodbye Yeller Brick Road, The Final Tour.'

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