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Oregon school board chair resigns, superintendent and principal on leave over sex abuse arrests
Friday, November 15th, 2024
via The Associated PressA school district in northwest Oregon has put its superintendent and high school principal on leave and accepted the school board chair's resignation.
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Fairfax school board renews superintendent’s contract, raises salary to $424k
Friday, November 15th, 2024
via The Washington PostThe Fairfax County school board has renewed the contract of Superintendent Michelle Reid, increasing her annual salary to more than $424,000.
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Transgender-rights advocates say the election of Trump and his allies marks a major setback
Friday, November 15th, 2024
via The Associated PressElection victories for Donald Trump and other candidates whose campaigns demeaned transgender people reinforced a widespread backlash against trans rights.
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Trump wants to end ‘wokeness’ in education. He has vowed to use federal money as leverage
Friday, November 15th, 2024
via The Associated PressPresident-elect Donald Trump has a vision for education that revolves around a single goal: to rid America's schools of perceived 'wokeness' and 'left-wing indoctrination.'
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The central argument behind the Gaetz nomination: Democrats are worse
Thursday, November 14th, 2024
via The Washington PostPresident-elect Trump's nomination of Matt Gaetz to run the Justice Department is reactionary both in motivation and in the defenses it has triggered.
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Rancher, Politician, Trump Ally: Who Is Kristi Noem, the Homeland Security Pick?
Wednesday, November 13th, 2024
via The New York TimesThe governor of South Dakota has defied coronavirus restrictions and been a vocal critic of President Biden's immigration policies.
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Could Trump Shut Down the Department of Education?
Wednesday, November 13th, 2024
via The New York TimesDonald Trump said he would use the department to further his priorities. He also said he would close it. Both options would face difficulties.
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Noem’s Cabinet appointment will make a plain-spoken rancher South Dakota’s new governor
Wednesday, November 13th, 2024
via The Associated PressSouth Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem built a national profile that had fellow Republicans buzzing about her future.
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Texas county reverses classification of Indigenous history book as fiction
Wednesday, October 23rd, 2024
via The Washington PostA Montgomery County committee caused an outcry after labelling 'Colonization and the Wampanoag story,' a children's Native American history book, as fiction.
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AP Decision Notes: What to expect in Illinois on Election Day
Tuesday, October 22nd, 2024
via The Associated PressThe race for president tops the list of federal, state and local contests in Illinois, where voters have supported the Democratic presidential nominee for decades but lower-ballot contests are more…
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Door-Knocks, Texts, and Ads, Ads, Ads: Life on the Swing-State Battlefield
Sunday, October 20th, 2024
via The New York TimesThis year's campaign offers a vivid reminder of how much the playing field in presidential elections has shrunk, giving voters in a handful of states a disproportionate influence in the decision.
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Two Texas cities represent the divide between those who vote and those who could, but often don’t
Saturday, October 19th, 2024
via The Associated PressTwo neighboring Texas cities illustrate the divide in American politics between the diverse, potential electorate in the country and the actual electorate, which is heavily white and wealthier.
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Wisconsin voters consider constitutional amendment barring noncitizens from voting
Saturday, October 19th, 2024
via The Associated PressWisconsin voters will have to make another choice after casting their ballots for president in November — whether to explicitly bar non-U.S. citizens from voting.
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Inside the ‘Make America Healthy Again’ push that’s perplexing health leaders
Friday, October 18th, 2024
via The Washington PostExperts are happy that chronic disease has become a campaign priority — but not sure how to feel about the message coming from Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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Bruce Campbell on ‘Hysteria!’ and Why the Satanic Panic Never Ended
Friday, October 18th, 2024
via The New York TimesThe Peacock horror comedy finds timeliness in a dark chapter of American history. 'Satan was always an existential threat,' the actor said.
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The University of Michigan Doubled Down on D.E.I. What Went Wrong?
Wednesday, October 16th, 2024
via The New York TimesA decade and a quarter of a billion dollars later, students and faculty are more frustrated than ever.
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Harris campaign rejects claims of plagiarism
Tuesday, October 15th, 2024
via The Washington PostSome experts say the incidents are modest and unlikely to reflect an intentional effort to take credit.
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Trump’s protests aside, his agenda has plenty of overlap with Project 2025
Monday, October 14th, 2024
via The Associated PressDonald Trump insists that Project 2025, a nearly 1,000-page blueprint for a hard-right turn in American government and society, does not reflect his priorities for a White House encore.
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Legislative majorities giving one party all the power are in play in several states
Sunday, October 13th, 2024
via The Associated PressA behind-the-scenes battle is underway between Democrats and Republicans for supermajority control of state legislatures across the country.
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