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Minnesota and other Democratic-led states lead pushback on censorship. They’re banning the book ban

Tuesday, April 23rd, 2024

via The Associated Press (New Jersey)

At a time when book bans have soared to their highest levels in decades, a countertrend is emerging.

Parents

PA House Primary Preview: Capitol Region

Monday, April 22nd, 2024

via PoliticsPA (Pennsylvania)

We close our series with a look around Cumberland, Dauphin, Lebanon and York counties.

School Board – General, Parent Involvement

House committee weighs bill that would require teachers to answer parents’ questions

Monday, April 22nd, 2024

via Concord Monitor (New Hampshire)

At a parent-teacher conference a decade ago, Tina Kim Philibotte learned her child was gay.The disclosure took Philibotte – a self-described progressive and now one of four public school diversity,…

Parents

California Says Its Policies Trump Parental Rights When It Comes to Trans Kids

Monday, April 22nd, 2024

via California Globe (California)

A friend's 5-year-old child told me emphatically he wants to be a girl. I naturally told my friend. I didn't know what he would do with the information, but I certainly thought that as a parent he…

Parents

Gov. Kathy Hochul hits new polling lows

Monday, April 22nd, 2024

via City & State NY (New York)

A new Siena College poll shows New Yorkers aren't happy with the governor, or congestion pricing.

Parents

Fighting for his values

Monday, April 22nd, 2024

via Wisconsin State Journal (Wisconsin)

KNOW YOUR MADISONIAN | LUKE BERG

Parents

PA House Primary Preview: Central PA

Sunday, April 21st, 2024

via PoliticsPA (Pennsylvania)

Blair, Franklin and Huntingdon Counties have GOP primary races that most likely will determine the reps in Harrisburg

School Board – General, Parent Involvement

Rundown of eight Republican primaries in Oklahoma set for June

Sunday, April 21st, 2024

via Tulsa World (Oklahoma)

Even when an office goes to a general election in November, the ultimate outcome is, more times than not, determined by GOP voters in June's closed primaries or August's runoffs.

School Board – General, Parent Involvement

NEISD candidates reject ‘politics’ but political money is flowing

Friday, April 19th, 2024

via San Antonio Express-News (Texas)

Ten board hopefuls are backed by groups such as Parents United for Freedom, the San Antonio Family Association and Bexar County Champions for Public Education.

School Board – General, Parent Involvement, Sex Education

‘Afraid to go to school’: Michigan school cancels pronoun lesson after online onslaught

Friday, April 19th, 2024

via Detroit Free Press (Michigan)

DeWitt Public School district in Michigan canceled an optional lesson planned for a class of first-graders at Schavey Road Elementary School.

Parent Involvement, Sex Education

Who are ‘God’s Misfits’? As police investigate Oklahoma homicide, South Carolina pastor caught in crosshairs

Friday, April 19th, 2024

via The Oklahoman (Oklahoma)

After two women were killed by members of "God's Misfits," a ministry of the same name has been pulled into the controversy. Here's what we know.

Parents

Murrieta board defies state, will keep policy to tell parents about LGBTQ+ transitioning

Friday, April 19th, 2024

via Los Angeles Times (California)

State officials had ordered Riverside County district to drop its parent-notification policy — and administrators were going comply — but school board rebels.

School Board – General, Parent Involvement

Washington Republicans get ready to rumble in Spokane

Friday, April 19th, 2024

via The Columbian (Washington)

Thousands of Republican activists are gathering for their party convention in Spokane this week – a three-day fete to organize and energize the grassroots heading into election season.

School Board – General, Parent Involvement

A county library supported the ‘freedom to read.’ Commissioners threatened its funding.

Friday, April 19th, 2024

via The Baltimore Banner (Maryland)

Carroll County commissioners plan to withhold some additional funding to the public library because staff supported the Freedom to Read Act, they said in budget work sessions this month.

Parents

Why are these longtime conservatives in Oconee County running as Democrats?

Thursday, April 18th, 2024

via Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Georgia)

During a packed Oconee County Republican gathering, Suzannah Heimel addressed the elephant in the room. She's a proud conservative, she told them, yet she's set to be the Democratic nominee for a County Commission seat in solidly GOP territory.

School Board – General, Parent Involvement

Moms for Liberty brings message of frustration to NC town hall

Thursday, April 18th, 2024

via WRAL (North Carolina)

By Emily Walkenhorst , WRAL education reporterNational conservative parents rights group Moms for Liberty brought a town hall — and frustration toward public schools — to North Carolina on Wednesday…

School Board – General, Parent Involvement

Cumberland Valley parents try to salvage appearance by ‘30 Rock’ actor that school board canceled

Wednesday, April 17th, 2024

via TribLive (Pennsylvania)

Some Cumberland Valley School District residents are launching an all-out effort to salvage a school assembly in May that the school board canceled Monday night out of stated concerns over injecting…

School Board – General, Parent Involvement

Russell Prescott announces latest set of endorsements

Wednesday, April 17th, 2024

via Manchester Ink Link (New Hampshire)

Russell Prescott, candidate for Congress in the First District of New Hampshire, has released a new round of endorsements for his candidacy.

School Board – General, Parent Involvement

Ferguson blasts GOP opponent Reichert for remarks on same-sex marriage

Wednesday, April 17th, 2024

via The Columbian (Washington)

OLYMPIA — In the early stages of the race for governor, Democrat and front-runner Bob Ferguson is casting one of his opponents, Republican Dave Reichert, as too conservative for Washington, sharing a

School Board – General, Parent Involvement