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Trump’s education department is working to erode the public school system • Louisiana Illuminator
Wednesday, October 8th, 2025
via Louisiana Illuminator (Louisiana)ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Education Secretary Linda McMahon has been clear about her desire to shut down the agency she runs. She's laid off half the staff and joked about padlocking the door. She calls it […]
Book Bans, LGBTQ+, Parent Involvement
George Takei speaks out against censorship at BPL Banned Books Week event
Wednesday, October 8th, 2025
via amNewYork (New York)As the First Amendment faces growing challenges, the Brooklyn Public Library (BPL) welcomed American actor, author and activist George Takei for an unscripted conversation on censorship at the Central…
Book Bans, Parent Involvement
Parents Beware: The Truth Behind California’s Mandatory LGBTQ Lessons
Wednesday, October 8th, 2025
via California Globe (California)As California school districts discuss how to implement opt outs due to the U.S. Supreme Court decision affirming parents' right to withdraw children from discussions on LGBTQ+ issues that conflict…
School Board – General, Parent Involvement, Sex Education
Moms for Liberty shows muscle in SC as statewide hopefuls pledge their support
Wednesday, October 8th, 2025
via The Sun News (South Carolina)Moms for Liberty, a conservative leaning advocacy group, with activists volunteering to run the organization, has grown its influence with chapters in 48 states. The group arrived South Carolina in 2021, and has 16 active chapters and 4,000 members in the state.
School Board – General, Parent Involvement
A judge has blocked a Trump administration effort to change teen pregnancy prevention programs
Tuesday, October 7th, 2025
via Muscatine Journal (Iowa)A judge has blocked new requirements for teen pregnancy prevention grantees. The case is a victory for Planned Parenthood affiliates who sued President Donald Trump's administration over policy guidance issued
Parents
Children’s Home Society of West Virginia gets go-ahead to apply for grant
Tuesday, October 7th, 2025
via Parkersburg News and Sentinel (West Virginia)PARKERSBURG — The Wood County Commission is providing support to the Children's Home Society of West Virginia to apply for a grant to help with foster care programs as well as providing some financial…
Parents
VPA, VLNP voter guide: Republican nominee for lieutenant governor John Reid
Monday, October 6th, 2025
via Fredericksburg.com (Virginia)The lieutenant governor of Virginia presides over the state Senate and is first in line to succeed the governor.
Parents
Uthmeier asks US Supreme Court to review school gender case
Monday, October 6th, 2025
via The Florida Times-Union (Florida)Florida's attorney general has joined with 21 other states in siding with a Tallahassee couple in a case about parental rights.
School Board – General, Parent Involvement
Mikie Sherrill Flew to California as Government Shutdown Loomed to Interview with Hollywood Podcaster
Monday, October 6th, 2025
via Shore News Network (New Jersey)Los Angeles, CA – As Washington braced for a full federal shutdown last week, Rep. Mikie Sherrill was apparently three time zones away — seated in a Los
Parents
Governor still deliberating on vaccine bill passed by legislature
Monday, October 6th, 2025
via NM Political Report (New Mexico)By Alex Ross, NM Political Report — Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham is still contemplating what action to take on a bill passed during last week's special legislative session that would temporarily…
Parents
Texas school district yanks YA Holocaust novel ‘The Devil’s Arithmetic’ after using AI to detect ‘DEI content’
Monday, October 6th, 2025
via Sun Sentinel (Florida)The novel was one of dozens to be removed after Leander Independent School District, in a suburb of Austin, undertook its review in part by using artificial intelligence.
Book Bans, Parent Involvement
Pueblo D70’s 7 candidates shared their visions for the district. Here’s what they said
Monday, October 6th, 2025
via The Pueblo Chieftain (Colorado)Candidates running for the Pueblo D70 Board of Education in 2025 spoke to voters on the first night of candidate debates at PCC's Hoag Theater.
School Board – General, Parent Involvement
Restore school libraries to aid reading freedom
Monday, October 6th, 2025
via New York Daily News (New York)It's Banned Book Week, and New York City is not immune from ever-increasing attempts to curtail freedom of speech and ban books. Recognizing this threat, in June the Legislature passed The Freedom …
Book Bans, Parent Involvement
Hinson puts a target on Linn-Mar again
Sunday, October 5th, 2025
via The Gazette (Iowa)Linn-Mar High School students attend a student-led walkout at Linn-Mar High School in Marion, Iowa, on Wednesday, March 1, 2023. …
Parents
Steen launches ‘99 Strong’ tour in Marion with focus on faith, families and local control
Saturday, October 4th, 2025
via The Gazette (Iowa)Republican gubernatorial candidate Adam Steen launched his "99 Strong" statewide tour in Marion on Saturday, pledging to champion skilled trades, parental rights, property tax reform and local control. Steen also vowed to oppose eminent domain for pipelines and defend "Iowa's culture and values."
Parents
Judge dismisses West Michigan school critic’s free-speech lawsuit
Saturday, October 4th, 2025
via MLive (Michigan)A judge rejected Stefanie Boone's contention that Lowell Area Schools violated her free-speech rights.
School Board – General, Book Bans, Parent Involvement
Republicans double down on trans issues as a wedge with independent voters
Friday, October 3rd, 2025
via WTOP (District of Columbia)It's early on a Thursday evening and Winsome Earle-Sears, Virginia's Republican candidate for governor, is in a familiar place. She's standing outside of a school board meeting to call attention to…
School Board – General, Parent Involvement
KXAN Voter Guide: What to know for the November 2025 elections
Friday, October 3rd, 2025
via KXAN (Texas)From state constitutional amendments to school district propositions, voters across Central Texas will be deciding important races on the November 2025 ballot.
Parents
Largest NJ teachers’ union is sued over alleged misuse of dues to fund governor run
Friday, October 3rd, 2025
via NorthJersey (New Jersey)Two public school teachers have sued the NJEA for allegedly channeling member dues into funding former President Sean Spiller's run for NJ governor.
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