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Indiana appeals court affirms 70-year sentence in child torture death
Thursday, July 20th, 2023
via NWI Times (Indiana)The Indiana Court of Appeals will not shorten the 70-year prison term of a rural LaPorte County man convicted last year of torturing to death his four-year-old son.
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Chris Christie, ready to take down Donald Trump, talks Hunter Biden, ‘woke’ Dems, more
Thursday, July 20th, 2023
via Press-Citizen.com (Iowa)New Jersey's former governor is blunt about the GOP primary being a referendum on the former president.
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‘The 57 Bus’ and ‘The Kite Runner’ shouldn’t be banned from West Bend high schools, committee says following complaints
Thursday, July 20th, 2023
via Journal Sentinel, Inc. (Wisconsin)The person who filed the complaint has 30 days to appeal the decision to keep the books that some have called
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Barack Obama appears in library TikTok video to put focus on book bans
Thursday, July 20th, 2023
via Chicago Tribune (Illinois)Barack Obama turned to the Kankakee, Illinois, librarians when he kicked off an effort to push back against book bans earlier this week to support their belief that among their
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Part of Kimball Avenue closed starting Monday
Thursday, July 20th, 2023
via Waterloo Courier Inc (Iowa)Beginning July 24, Kimball Avenue from Mitchell Avenue to Williston Avenue will be closed to thru traffic for asphalt overlay.
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What Iowans Want: New teacher from Davenport targets Illinois schools instead of Iowa
Thursday, July 20th, 2023
via Quad City Times (Iowa)Editor's Note: This is part of a larger series "What do Iowans want" that asks 20 Iowans across the state about their lives and how state government impacts them.
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Cedar Falls businesses, organizations adjust to Main Street construction
Thursday, July 20th, 2023
via Waterloo Courier Inc (Iowa)Work is expected to continue into 2025.
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Public schools banned from sheltering migrants under bill passed by U.S. House
Thursday, July 20th, 2023
via home - georgia recorder (Georgia)The U.S. House on Wednesday night passed a bill to bar the use of public K-12 schools to provide shelter for migrants seeking asylum.
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School board outrage over LGBTQ lessons pushes California governor to rush new textbook law
Thursday, July 20th, 2023
via PENNLive (Pennsylvania)During the nine-hour Temecula Valley Unified meeting, which ran past midnight, some angry parents spoke in support of the conservative majority on the school board and its bucking of state standards for inclusive and diverse education.
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Temecula school board outrage over LGBTQ lessons motivates Newsom to rush new textbook law
Thursday, July 20th, 2023
via Miami Herald (Florida)SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Two San Francisco Democrats were at the center of a chaotic school board meeting in Southern California on Tuesday: Gov. Gavin Newsom and slain gay rights leader Harvey Milk.
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Book ban opponents outside Palm Beach County School District HQ
Wednesday, July 19th, 2023
via Palm Beach Post (Florida)A few dozen book ban opponents waved signs at traffic outside school district headquarters
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Book ban opponents wave signs outside Palm Beach County School District HQ
Wednesday, July 19th, 2023
via Palm Beach Post (Florida)A few dozen book ban opponents waved signs at traffic outside school district headquarters
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Does your Palm Beach County school carry copies of the Bible, Quran and Torah? Here’s a list
Wednesday, July 19th, 2023
via Palm Beach Post (Florida)A parent's challenge of the Bible at Olympic Heights High brings up a question. Which schools have the Bible, Quran, Torah on their library shelves?
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Palm Beach County school leaders vote to keep Bible in libraries after parent challenge
Wednesday, July 19th, 2023
via Palm Beach Post (Florida)Parent Involvement, Book Bans, School Board – General
U.S. education secretary on ‘attacking public education’ as Georgia schools prepare to open
Wednesday, July 19th, 2023
via GPB Media (Georgia)With Georgia schools opening in the coming weeks, U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona spent two days in Atlanta and Augusta discussing classroom issues, including what he called the "toxic…
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Waterloo schools earns national awards for communications
Wednesday, July 19th, 2023
via Waterloo Courier Inc (Iowa)Projects, spearheaded by School and Community Relations Director Akwi Nji, amassed a total of 14 awards is NSPRA's annual Publications and Electronic Media Awards competition.
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School funding questions will be on Hammond, Whiting general election ballots
Wednesday, July 19th, 2023
via NWI Times (Indiana)The Lake County Election Board unanimously agreed to place the referenda requested by the School City of Hammond and the School City of Whiting on the Nov. 7 ballot.
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Casey and Fetterman have a high percentage of LGBTQ staffers. We talked to some about why that matters.
Wednesday, July 19th, 2023
via The Philadelphia Inquirer (Pennsylvania)Sen. Bob Casey's Senate office has the highest percentage of LGBTQ staffers, according to a diversity survey by Senate Democrats. Sen. John Fetterman's office ranks third.
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Melvin Wulf, legal crusader for ACLU, dies at 95
Wednesday, July 19th, 2023
via Press Herald (Maine)He helped transform the ACLU from an organization that mostly wrote briefs on major cases to one that represented individual clients before the high court.
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