News

AP News in Brief at 9:04 p.m. EDT

Saturday, September 2nd, 2023

via The Charlotte Observer (North Carolina)

AP News in Brief at 9:04 p.m. EDT.

Parents

Youngkin must squash Fairfax County’s rebellion against parental rights and common sense

Saturday, September 2nd, 2023

via Washington Examiner (District of Columbia)

As the new school year takes off, so do liberal school districts' efforts to undermine parents as the primary caretaker and educator of their children.

Parents

Can orthodox Islam, Christian right be allies?

Saturday, September 2nd, 2023

via Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Inc. (Arkansas)

Faced with a throng of worried parents, Montgomery County Councilmember Kristin Mink met with a few Muslim protesters to hear their objections to the "LGBTQ+-inclusive texts" schoolteachers would be…

Parents

Westwood school board introduces parental rights policy: What it …

Saturday, September 2nd, 2023

via North Jersey Media Group (New Jersey)

The Westwood School District has introduced a parental rights policy to keep parents informed of matters related to their children.

Parent Involvement, School Board – General

Woman accused of abducting her biological children from Lewisville arrested in Oklahoma

Friday, September 1st, 2023

via The Dallas Morning News, Inc. (Texas)

A woman accused of abducting her biological children from Lewisville was arrested in Oklahoma Friday morning, Lewisville officials said.

Parents

‘The Blind Side’ lawsuit spotlights tricky areas of family law

Friday, September 1st, 2023

via Houston Chronicle (Texas)

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Parents

Virtual-Reality School as the Ultimate School Choice

Friday, September 1st, 2023

via The New Yorker (New York)

The conservative education activist Erika Donalds envisions a world where parents unsatisfied with their public schools can opt out by putting their kids in a headset.

Parent Involvement, School Board – General

New Texas law allowing chaplains to counsel school kids may draw boards deeper into culture wars

Friday, September 1st, 2023

via Houston Chronicle (Texas)

Law going into effect today may open a new frontier in school board campaigns that have...

Parent Involvement, School Board – General, Racism

Librarians facing more staffing challenges, threats and even violence amid book bans

Thursday, August 31st, 2023

via WPXI-TV (Pennsylvania)

Many public librarians are being forced to quit over concerns about their safety.

Parent Involvement, Book Bans

Michael Farris fought his early legal battles in Spokane

Thursday, August 31st, 2023

via The Spokesman Review (Washington)

A Virginia lawyer who is being described as the leader in a conservative movement to assert parental rights in school policies got his start in law and advocacy in Spokane.

Parent Involvement, School Board – General

The GOP presidential race reaches the classroom as candidates speak out on parents’ rights, school choice

Thursday, August 31st, 2023

via Deseret News (Utah)

GOP presidential candidates have called for more parent involvement in K-12 education

Parent Involvement, Racism, School Board – General

Explicit books removed from K-12 school libraries but only after a public reading at school board

Thursday, August 31st, 2023

via The Washington Times, LLC (District of Columbia)

At least 20 books are being removed from libraries in a Florida school district as the result of parents reading out loud objectionable passages from the books they deemed sexually explicit and inappropriate for children at a school board meeting.

Parent Involvement, School Board – General, Racism

‘Questioning their own validity’: Most challenged books in Iowa tell stories of underrepresented people

Thursday, August 31st, 2023

via The Des Moines Register (Iowa)

Parent Involvement, Book Bans, School Board – General

Idalia’s gone, school is back in session for much of Florida

Thursday, August 31st, 2023

via Tampa Bay Times (Florida)

A roundup of Florida education news from around the state

Parent Involvement, School Board – General

School districts across the country lukewarm on new transgender policies, setting up legal battles

Thursday, August 31st, 2023

via Washington Examiner (District of Columbia)

Between the last school year and the new one, legislators in many areas have implemented new laws controlling district officials' abilities to pursue the transition of children without their parents'

Parent Involvement, School Board – General

Former dean of College of Charleston business school lost son to fentanyl overdose

Wednesday, August 30th, 2023

via The Post and Courier (South Carolina)

The 5th annual 'Light the Way for Hope' honors those who have tragically lost their lives to overdose. Beginning at 7 p.m., the event will be held at the Mount

Parents

Does social and emotional learning work? Let’s hope not

Wednesday, August 30th, 2023

via Washington Examiner (District of Columbia)

Social and emotional learning (SEL) advocates always insist that their enterprise is 'evidence-based.' There is, in truth, remarkably little rigorous evidence demonstrating SEL's academic benefits. A 2017 Rand Corporation review of the SEL literature found a single study meeting its highest…

Parent Involvement, Racism

Florida reviewers of AP African American Studies sought ‘opposing …

Wednesday, August 30th, 2023

via The Virginian-Pilot (Virginia)

Alexander Weheliye, African American studies professor at Brown University, said the evaluators' comments on the units about slavery were a 'complete distortion' and 'whitewashing' of what happened historically.

Parent Involvement, Racism