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Mystery novel features Birmingham social worker
Tuesday, January 21st, 2025
via The Tuscaloosa News (Alabama)Claire Conover deals with personal issues as she tries to solve a murder in Jefferson County.
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Indiana bill tracker: Bills on parental rights, social media advanced. Here’s what else.
Tuesday, January 21st, 2025
via The Indianapolis Star (Indiana)There's about 1,200 bills filed but only some of them will become law. Here, we're tracking the bills that actually progress in the legislature.
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‘The 57 Bus’ author on Knox County Schools book ban: ‘I never get used to it’
Tuesday, January 21st, 2025
via Knoxville News Sentinel (Tennessee)Her book is a true crime narrative that explores the intersection of race, gender, the juvenile justice system and income inequality.
Book Bans, Parent Involvement
Former Planned Parenthood president, women’s rights activist Cecile Richards has died at 67
Monday, January 20th, 2025
via St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Missouri)Cecile Richards, a national leader for women's rights who led Planned Parenthood for 12 tumultuous years, has died. She was 67.
School Board – General, Parent Involvement
Weather sidelines Las Vegas Police Protective Association from Trump inauguration parade
Monday, January 20th, 2025
via Las Vegas Sun (Nevada)The last minute changes sent people who had flown, in some instances thousands of miles, to Washington into a scramble for new ways to celebrate the new administration.
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Gloria Romero: To honor Dr. King, President Trump should declare a national education emergency
Sunday, January 19th, 2025
via Orange County Register (California)Make America Read Again—MARA—should be the rallying call. Let's start with schools named for a King.
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Kootenai County library system approves adult-only room for books with mature content as 140 titles pulled from shelves for review
Sunday, January 19th, 2025
via The Spokesman-Review (Washington)Books with mature themes will soon be relegated to an adults-only room in most public libraries in Kootenai County.
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Steve Bannon says MAGA populism will win — as Trump is surrounded by billionaires
Sunday, January 19th, 2025
via High Plains Public Radio (Texas)Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon says he doesn't believe the president-elect will listen to "tech oligarchs" over the right-wing populist movement that helped him secure another White House term.
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Trump Picks Penny Schwinn, Who Declined to Enforce Tennessee’s CRT Ban and is Affiliated with Prominent Never Trumper, for Key Education Position
Saturday, January 18th, 2025
via Tennessee Star (Tennessee)President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday announced that Penny Schwinn, the former Tennessee Education Commissioner who resigned amid controversy in 2023, and made similar controversial departures from…
Racism, School Board – General, Parent Involvement
In State Capitals, Republicans Propose New Limits on Transgender Identity
Saturday, January 18th, 2025
via The New York Times (Idaho)The new lawmaking sessions open after a campaign year in which Republicans leaned on messaging that tapped into fears about transgender issues.
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One more time: DST ban in Unicam could yield summer time ‘island’ in southwest Nebraska
Friday, January 17th, 2025
via Star-Herald (Nebraska)State Sens. Mike Jacobson and Teresa Ibach say they'll seek to ensure that a year-round standard time bill wouldn't put four counties an hour behind their Colorado and Nebraska neighbors.
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Supreme Court to Hear Case on Religious Objections to L.G.B.T.Q. Storybooks
Friday, January 17th, 2025
via The New York Times (Washington)Parents in Maryland said a school board's refusal to notify them and to excuse their children from discussions of the storybooks violated the First Amendment.
School Board – General, Parent Involvement
Standish man sentenced to 30 years in girlfriend’s death
Friday, January 17th, 2025
via Portland Press Herald (Maine)Brandon Libby, 37, pleaded guilty to manslaughter last month after a jury couldn't reach a verdict on a murder charge.
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Inside Trump’s plans for his first 100 days in office
Thursday, January 16th, 2025
via WTAE-TV Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania)President-elect Trump plans major actions on immigration, trade, taxes, and more in the first 100 days of his second term.
Racism, Parent Involvement
Florida school voucher group under fire over student repayments
Thursday, January 16th, 2025
via Tampa Bay Times (Florida)A roundup of Florida education news from around the state
School Board – General, Parent Involvement
No experience? No problem. Trump’s Cabinet raises concerns about government dysfunction.
Thursday, January 16th, 2025
via The Indianapolis Star (Indiana)Many of Trump's picks for top jobs in his next administration have not worked at the highest levels of government or in the private sector.
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House Education Committee quickly passes bill taking aim at DEI
Wednesday, January 15th, 2025
via Casper Star-Tribune (Wyoming)The House Education Committee unanimously passed a bill to prohibit 'institutional discrimination' in Wyoming. The bill makes up one of the five pieces of legislation in the Freedom Caucus's plan.
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Librarians gain protections in some states as book bans soar
Wednesday, January 15th, 2025
via Orange County Register (California)New Jersey joined at least five other states that have taken steps against school library censorship.
School Board – General, Book Bans, Parent Involvement
Trump’s second term to include many Floridians – and policies tested in Sunshine State
Wednesday, January 15th, 2025
via The Florida Times-Union (Florida)While plenty of Floridians have been named to President-elect Donald Trump's administration, policies tested in Florida also will be part of new term.
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