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State board denies requests to change student gender records despite court orders
Thursday, October 26th, 2023
via Tulsa World (Oklahoma)The Oklahoma State Board of Education rejected requests Thursday from Cushing and Moore schools seeking permission to comply with court orders to change the gender designation on two students' records.
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Iowa Gov. Reynolds defends library book restriction law as schools pull books from shelves
Wednesday, October 25th, 2023
via Quad-City Times (Iowa)The law banned books that include a defined list of sex acts from public schools.
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Gov. Murphy slams N.J. district’s call to end Halloween activities in school
Wednesday, October 25th, 2023
via NJ (New Jersey) (New Jersey)"Give me a break," Gov. Phil Murphy said of the move by the South Orange-Maplewood school district.
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Amy Schumer’s memoir, ‘The Art of War’ and many other books are banned in US prisons. Here’s why
Wednesday, October 25th, 2023
via The Times (Indiana)A new study from PEN America finds that tens of thousands of books are banned or restricted by U.S. prisons. The most common official reasons for bans are security and sexual content, terms that can apply to a very wide range of titles.
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Texas voters split on House, Senate handling of Paxton impeachment, poll finds
Wednesday, October 25th, 2023
via The Texas Tribune (Texas)Republicans showed a more clear divide, giving the Senate higher marks than the House for how the attorney general's impeachment was handled.
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Champlain Valley School District Spells Out the Rights of Transgender and Nonbinary Students
Wednesday, October 25th, 2023
via Seven Days (Vermont)The Champlain Valley School District has become the first in Vermont to clearly spell out the rights of transgender and nonbinary students in a wide-ranging...
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Jewish Florida lawmaker breaks from DeSantis and endorses Trump
Tuesday, October 24th, 2023
via The Washington Post (Washington)Randy Fine, a top DeSantis ally and sole Jewish GOP lawmaker in the Florida legislature, announced he was switching his support to former president Donald Trump.
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Seminole Republicans: Discrimination claims by Chris Anderson are ‘baseless’
Tuesday, October 24th, 2023
via Orlando Sentinel (Florida)Seminole County Republican Party leaders say claims of racial discrimination made by Supervisor of Election Chris Anderson are ‘baseless.'
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More Miami-Dade families signed up for vouchers, but majority were private school students
Tuesday, October 24th, 2023
via Miami Herald (Florida)In the short term, 'there appears to be minimal impact on public school enrollment,' said Miami-Dade Public Schools' chief academic officer
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Tennessee GOP is willing to reject millions in funding, if it avoids complying with federal strings
Tuesday, October 24th, 2023
via The Associated Press (Tennessee)Tennessee Republican leaders are escalating their calls to reject millions of federal dollars rather than comply with requirements over LGBTQ+ rights, abortion access and other hot-button issues.
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Keeping the faith: Evangelical voters in Iowa crucial to GOP hopefuls
Monday, October 23rd, 2023
via Sioux City Journal (Iowa)Ever since Mike Huckabee won the Iowa Republican caucuses in 2008 on the strength of the evangelical vote, support from Christian conservatives has been a hot commodity in the caucuses.
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Q&A with James ‘Stu’ Boyd, running for Thompson School District …
Monday, October 23rd, 2023
via Fort Collins Coloradoan (Colorado)We asked the same questions of all candidates for the Thompson school board, and here's how District G candidate James ‘Stu' Boyd answered.
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Meet the leader behind Patriot Mobile Action and North Texas’ conservative revolution
Monday, October 23rd, 2023
via Dallas Morning News (Texas)Patriot Mobile's chief communications officer, Leigh Wambsganss of Southlake, is one of the leaders behind a conservative revolution playing out in some...
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Democrats in NJ are headed toward election disaster because of this issue
Sunday, October 22nd, 2023
via New Jersey 101.5 (New Jersey)The hot-button issue of parental rights in schools may play a significant role in November's legislative races in New Jersey.
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Q&A with Dawn Kirk, running for Thompson School District Board of …
Sunday, October 22nd, 2023
via Fort Collins Coloradoan (Colorado)We asked the same questions of all candidates for the Thompson school board, and here's how District A candidate Dawn Kirk answered
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Iowa’s evangelical voters crucial to presidential candidates
Sunday, October 22nd, 2023
via The Gazette (Iowa)A ‘deep conviction' drives evangelicals to participate in caucuses.
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‘There’s just no place for bigotry here.’ Parents, advocates protest Moms for Liberty meeting in CT
Saturday, October 21st, 2023
via Hartford Courant (Connecticut)Protestors clad in rainbows crowded outside the Avon Senior Center Saturday to rally against a meeting of Moms for Liberty, a right-wing organization that was meeting at the center.
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U.S. House Republicans target ‘explicit’ books in school libraries
Saturday, October 21st, 2023
via Maryland Matters (Maryland)Republicans and Democrats on the U.S. House Education and Workforce Committee split at a Thursday hearing about whether some books containing LGBTQ+ content should...
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Ex-Florida Lawmaker Gets 4 Months in Prison for Covid-19 Relief Fraud
Friday, October 20th, 2023
via The New York Times (Florida)Joe Harding, 36, last year sponsored the legislation that critics called 'Don't Say Gay.' He pleaded guilty to federal charges in March.
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