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Contention surrounding legal services bid signals split on West Shore School Board
Wednesday, January 17th, 2024
via PennLive.com (Pennsylvania)Several members voiced concern last week that the board's new majority was seeking to replace the district's solicitor using a dubious bid document — but the board's vice president, who steered the…
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Ken Williams: ‘Community Schools’ are a Trojan horse in our education system
Wednesday, January 17th, 2024
via Orange County Register (California)Do we trust the same bureaucrats and unions that caused our current public school crisis?
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DeSantis sees Florida’s anti-trans law mirrored in South Carolina Legislature’s surgery ban proposal
Wednesday, January 17th, 2024
via Sun Sentinel (Florida)'You can't take your kid and get a 12-year-old a tattoo. You can't take a 13-year-old and sit him at the bar and do liquor shots,' DeSantis said. Tuesday. 'There are just certain things…
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Continued calls for Bridget Ziegler to resign dominate Sarasota School Board meeting
Wednesday, January 17th, 2024
via Sarasota Herald-Tribune (Florida)Tuesday marked the second consecutive Sarasota School Board meeting dominated by the Ziegler sex scandal and continued calls for her to resign.
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Democrat Keen wins state House 35 special election over GOP’s Booth
Wednesday, January 17th, 2024
via Orlando Sentinel (Florida)Democrat Tom Keen flipped what had been a Republican seat in Central Florida in a special election held Tuesday for state House District 35.
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Scott Maxwell: Forget parental rights and the Constitution. Florida wants to outlaw social media for minors, no matter what parents think.
Tuesday, January 16th, 2024
via Orlando Sentinel (Florida)Scott Maxwell: Forget parental rights and the Constitution. Florida wants to outlaw social media for minors, no matter what parents think.
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Italian food and common sense in Central Jersey
Tuesday, January 16th, 2024
via New Jersey 101.5 (New Jersey)It was an honor to be invited in to the Mercer GOP annual event.
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Legislature’s analyst praises, pans Newsom budget
Tuesday, January 16th, 2024
via CalMatters (California)The Legislative Analyst's Office questions whether Gov. Newsom's spending plan for 2024-25 is too optimistic on tax revenue.
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Parents’ rights groups mobilize as California advances a ban on youth tackle football
Tuesday, January 16th, 2024
via CalMatters (California)The state Assembly has until the end of January to advance the youth tackle football bill — the latest California battle over parental rights
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National and Ohio Republicans lawmakers don’t govern, they just parade hate-filled extremism
Tuesday, January 16th, 2024
via Ohio Capital Journal (Ohio)Embarrassing. Infuriating. Oppressing. Take your pick. They all describe the performative do-nothings in Columbus and Washington. Dodgy politicians who aspire not to serve the greater good but to…
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The Baltimore Sun media group sold to local businessman David Smith
Tuesday, January 16th, 2024
via The Baltimore Banner (Maryland)Maryland's oldest newspapers are now back in local hands after nearly four decades.
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The OUSD recall is a thinly-veiled assault on parents’ rights
Monday, January 15th, 2024
via Orange County Register (California)The most disturbing part about these extreme actions is that at the end of the day, we are not the real targets – parents are. We just happen to be in the way.
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‘What they’re afraid of is our collective voice and power’ ⋆ Michigan Advance
Sunday, January 14th, 2024
via Michigan Advance (Michigan)By any reckoning, 2023 was a landmark year for LGBTQ+ rights in Michigan, with passage of major legislation that had been bottlenecked for years, and even decades. Most notably, Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed legislation in March adding sexual orientation and gender identity to the state's Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act. Later that year, she also […]
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Martin Luther King Would be Distressed with California’s Failing Schools
Saturday, January 13th, 2024
via California Globe (California)Monday is a national holiday to celebrate the life and achievements of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Across the nation, tributes will be paid to the man who taught us to dream – a man who was willing to…
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Iowa AG appeals court ruling halting Iowa law on school books
Saturday, January 13th, 2024
via Quad-City Times (Iowa)Brenna Bird argues law passed last year ‘is clear'
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Iowa attorney general appeals court ruling halting Iowa law on school books
Friday, January 12th, 2024
via The Gazette (Iowa)Brenna Bird argues law passed last year ‘is clear'
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Florida GOP chair Evan Power says party ‘moving in right direction’
Friday, January 12th, 2024
via WESH (Florida)Power tells WESH 2 News, the party's vote to remove Ziegler from his position, should be a signal to donors that they can trust the party to focus on races.
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Racial equity activist must pay at least $38,000 after judge dismisses her lawsuit alleging harm from Awake Illinois leader
Friday, January 12th, 2024
via Chicago Tribune (Illinois)A Skokie racial equity activist is facing a judge's deadline to pay $38,000 in attorney fees for an Awake Illinois leader whom she sued unsuccessfully for defamation.
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Senate Education committee kills bill requiring school sentinels, resource officers
Friday, January 12th, 2024
via Rapid City Journal (South Dakota)A legislative attempt to make all 148 public K-12 school districts and 706 public K-12 school buildings in South Dakota have a school sentinel or school resource officer failed Thursday.
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