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Live updates: After Trump makes entrance as official nominee, GOP convention begins second day
Tuesday, July 16th, 2024
via PBS (Arizona)Trump energized the crowd Monday night by entering the arena with a bandage on his right ear after being injured during an assassination attempt Saturday.
School Board – General, Parent Involvement
Gov. Gavin Newsom Signs Dangerous Parent Secrecy Bill AB 1955
Monday, July 15th, 2024
via California Globe (California)Is California slated to become Gov. Gavin Newsom's gender transition sanctuary state? Gov. Newsom just signed Assembly Bill 1955 by Assemblyman Chris Ward (D-San Diego), the bill to prohibit schools…
Parents
Newsom signs first-in-nation bill banning schools’ transgender notification policies
Monday, July 15th, 2024
via The Mercury News (California)The bill makes California the first state to explicitly prohibit 'forced outing' policies in schools, which require schools to inform parents whenever a student requests to use a different name or …
Parents
Newsom signs bill banning schools from notifying parents about student gender identity
Monday, July 15th, 2024
via Los Angeles Times (California)The new law shields teachers from retaliation for supporting transgender students and prohibits school policies that require 'forced disclosure' of youth gender decisions to their families.
School Board – General, Parent Involvement
Project 2025, GOP platform blast California, teeing up attacks on possible Biden stand-ins
Sunday, July 14th, 2024
via Los Angeles Times (California)It doesn't matter which conservative playbook you consult. A second Trump term would mean federal war on California ideas.
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Meet the Arizona-based Christian law firm working to ban abortion nationwide
Saturday, July 13th, 2024
via Arizona Daily Star (Arizona)The Arizona-based Alliance Defending Freedom is arguably one of the most significant legal and political powerhouses working in the United States.
Parent Involvement, LGBTQ+
Dysart schools to consider opposing Biden’s new Title IX rules protecting LGBTQ+ students
Thursday, July 11th, 2024
via The Arizona Republic (Arizona)The Dysart Governing Board will also receive guidance on the
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3 Pinellas candidates want to flip the school board. What would that mean?
Thursday, July 11th, 2024
via Tampa Bay Times (Florida)In other Florida districts, it's meant firing the superintendent and overturning policies considered 'woke.'
School Board – General, Parent Involvement
Out yesterday, in today: DeSantis to speak at Republican National Convention
Wednesday, July 10th, 2024
via The Des Moines Register (Iowa)Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is slated to speak at the Republican National Convention, in an about-face after he was initially left off the roster.
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Here’s which Florida Republicans will be at the GOP’s national convention
Wednesday, July 10th, 2024
via Tampa Bay Times (Florida)Gov. Ron DeSantis is expected to speak at the GOP's convention in Milwaukee next week.
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Ron DeSantis is now expected to speak at the Republican National Convention, AP source says
Wednesday, July 10th, 2024
via The Associated Press (Iowa)Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is now expected to address former President Donald Trump's nominating convention next week.
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After challenging Trump, Haley and DeSantis denied speaking slots at RNC 2024
Wednesday, July 10th, 2024
via The Des Moines Register (Iowa)Nikki Haley's spokeswoman said she wasn't invited to the convention, while Ron DeSantis will be on the periphery of the convention but not speaking.
Parents
Is the California Legislature Providing Cover for Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy Parents?
Wednesday, July 10th, 2024
via California Globe (California)California's courts are in the thick of the case of a divorced mother who has petitioned to have her 11-year-old son castrated for a gender-transition against the will of the boy's father. The mother,…
Parents
Project 2025 offers conservatives an attack plan for California. Will Trump take it?
Tuesday, July 9th, 2024
via The Sacramento Bee (California)Though former President Donald Trump has denied any affiliation with Project 2025, several of its architects are heavily involved in his reelection effort.
Parents
Conservatives stormed their way onto California school boards — but are facing backlash
Monday, July 8th, 2024
via San Francisco Chronicle (California)The latest example of voters rejecting conservative school board takeovers came Tuesday, with the narrow recall of Sunol Glen Unified School District trustees.
School Board – General, Parent Involvement
Coparenting: Parenting from two different households
Saturday, July 6th, 2024
via The Grand Island Independent (Nebraska)Successful coparenting requires empathy, patience and open communication, says Anne Buettner, a licensed marriage and family therapist and psychologist associate.
Parents
An Ohio parent joined LifeWise Academy to post its curriculum online. Now it’s suing him
Saturday, July 6th, 2024
via The Columbus Dispatch (Ohio)Zachary Parrish learned about the nonprofit Christian instructional program three years ago, when a public school teacher tried to enroll his daughter.
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Broken Records: Citizens face growing obstacles to public records – and legislators are making them worse
Saturday, July 6th, 2024
via The Spokesman-Review (Idaho)Emily Moyer, a 37-year-old photographer, was hoping public records could help save her fiance.
Racism, Parent Involvement
Why did Pequannock librarian resign? Fights over budget, politics shake up a library board
Friday, July 5th, 2024
via Daily Record (New Jersey)Critics say a new library board is trying to strip away funding and warn of a conservative agenda. Here's what we know.
School Board – General, Parent Involvement, Sex Education