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Book-banning advocates seek elected power as book challenges near fever pitch

Wednesday, May 15th, 2024

via Lincoln Journal Star (Nebraska)

Book challenges can come from community members, parents or activists. In western North Carolina, some school boards saw those challenges come from school board candidates and school board members themselves.

School Board – General, Book Bans, Racism

A GOP Texas school board member campaigned against schools indoctrinating kids. Then she read the curriculum.

Wednesday, May 15th, 2024

via The Texas Tribune (Texas)

Courtney Gore, a Granbury ISD school board member, has disavowed the far-right platform she campaigned on. Her defiance has brought her backlash.

Racism, School Board – General

After a borderland shootout, a 100-year-old battle for the truth

Wednesday, May 15th, 2024

via The Washington Post (Michigan)

A century after three Tejano men were shot to death, the story descendants tell of their killing contradicts official accounts. Whose story counts as Texas history?

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The importance, value of Houston’s Juneteenth Parade in Acres Homes: Our Town

Wednesday, May 15th, 2024

via KPRC (Texas)

This year's Juneteenth parade will be held on June 15, at 10 a.m. first kicking off at the Acres Home Multi-Purpose Center on W Montgomery Rd. and conclude at the iconic Greater Zion Missionary…

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UT System cut 311 former DEI jobs after Texas ban, official says

Tuesday, May 14th, 2024

via Houston Chronicle (Texas)

The DEI closures will save the system about $25 million, Chancellor J.B. Milliken told state senators during a hearing Tuesday in Austin.

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Eric Trump, Alina Habba to headline Temecula conservative fundraiser

Tuesday, May 14th, 2024

via OC Register (California)

Event will raise money for the Inland Empire Family PAC, which helped get five candidates onto southwest Riverside County school boards.

Racism, School Board – General, Parent Involvement

Johnson, Linton elementaries ‘blindsided’ by PSD’s revised closure, consolidation plans

Tuesday, May 14th, 2024

via Fort Collins Coloradoan (Colorado)

Johnson and Linton elementaries were largely left out of earlier plans for school closures but are now in the thick of it and fighting for survival.

School Board – General, Racism

Pilot program at Southfield Academy viewed as a success

Sunday, May 12th, 2024

via The Oakland Press (Michigan)

Outside of a training fee for instructors teaching the class, the program is free for participating school districts.

Racism

‘Late Admissions’ Review: Glenn Loury’s Rise, Fall and Rise

Friday, May 10th, 2024

via The Wall Street Journal (Washington)

An economist tenured at a young age, Glenn Loury was always inclined to question orthodoxies.

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SAU 16’s diversity, equity director Andres Mejia resigns: Here’s why and what’s next

Friday, May 10th, 2024

via Foster's Daily Democrat (New Hampshire)

Mejia has 'been a driver in championing diversity initiatives and advocating for inclusion and social justice,' according to Superintendent Ester Asbell.

Racism, School Board – General

Brandeis Center and ADL File New Federal Complaints Against Occidental and Pomona Colleges

Thursday, May 9th, 2024

via California Globe (California)

This week the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under the Law and the Anti-Defamation League expanded and amended the federal civil rights complaint against the Berkeley Unified School…

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Judge temporarily halts enforcement of parts of Arkansas law on public school curriculum

Thursday, May 9th, 2024

via Southwest Times Record (Arkansas)

A federal judge on Tuesday issued an injunction protecting plaintiffs from punishment for teaching about divisive topics.

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Column: We all pay the price for wasteful government spending

Wednesday, May 8th, 2024

via The Virginian-Pilot (Virginia)

Wasteful spending abounds thanks to the Biden administration and all Americans are paying the price, the Heritage Foundation's David Ditch writes.

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House Republicans rip school leaders for retaining educators following antisemitism complaints

Wednesday, May 8th, 2024

via NY1 (New York)

House Republicans wanted the educators fired

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Arkansas cannot prevent 2 teachers from discussing critical race theory in classroom, judge rules

Wednesday, May 8th, 2024

via The Associated Press (Arkansas)

A federal judge has ruled Arkansas cannot prevent two high school teachers from discussing critical race theory in the classroom but is stopping short of a broader prohibition against the state's ban on teaching such subjects in the schools.

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Judge partly sides with plaintiffs suing to stop Arkansas’s ban on ‘critical race theory,’ ‘indoctrination’

Wednesday, May 8th, 2024

via Arkansas Times (Arkansas)

Though Judge Lee Rudofsky's ruling was narrow, he said it

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Federal judge bars state from enforcing indoctrination section of the LEARNS Act

Wednesday, May 8th, 2024

via Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (Arkansas)

A federal judge in Little Rock has granted a preliminary injunction to prevent the state from implementing or enforcing a section of the LEARNS Act that proponents say prohibits 'indoctrination' but…

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Education has become too political, focused on wrong things, outgoing NC superintendent Truitt says

Tuesday, May 7th, 2024

via WRAL (North Carolina)

By Emily Walkenhorst , WRAL education reporterEducation has become too political and focused on wrong things, outgoing North Carolina Superintendent Catherine Truitt told a gathering of hundreds of…

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Too many college students have been indoctrinated in extremist, far-left ideologies

Tuesday, May 7th, 2024

via OC Register (California)

Ivy League college presidents find themselves in precarious positions, swallowing the poisoning pills of the politicization of higher education.

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