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Florida’s African-American history standards blasted at South Florida town hall

Friday, August 11th, 2023

via Sun Sentinel (Florida)

Hundreds arrived a historic Black church Thursday night looking for answers about Florida's controversial African-American history standards and left ready to fight against what they see as i…

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Miami Gardens’ Black history town hall goes on without Manny Diaz, Jr.

Friday, August 11th, 2023

via CBS News (Pennsylvania)

Hundreds of lawmakers, teachers, school board members and parents crowded into a Miami Gardens church Thursday evening for a forum on Florida's new standards for teaching Black history.

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DeSantis, campaigning in Coralville, defends ouster of prosecutor

Thursday, August 10th, 2023

via The Gazette (Iowa)

'You see these prosecutors who say they're not going to prosecute people, they're not going to hold them accountable,' DeSantis said

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Black leaders blast DeSantis ‘atrocities’ outside state education building

Thursday, August 10th, 2023

via Palm Beach Post (Florida)

DeSantis-led reforms have loaded the start of a new school year with controversy not only in the teaching of African-American history.

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Caught in the crossfire: Milley’s tenure bedeviled by clash over values, ‘woke’ debate

Thursday, August 10th, 2023

via The Washington Times, LLC (District of Columbia)

His critics see a 'woke' military that's losing its edge as left-wing social activism and an obsession with diversity and political correctness take root inside the Pentagon. But Gen. Mark A. Milley sees a fighting force that is by far the most well-prepared, efficient and deadly on the planet — a reality that he says even America's most determined enemies must acknowledge.

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Charges dropped against New College student accused of spitting on trustee

Thursday, August 10th, 2023

via Tampa Bay Times (Florida)

The student agreed Thursday to withdraw from the Sarasota school.

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How politics changed education in the Milwaukee suburbs: ‘Now school is about the politics and the fear’

Thursday, August 10th, 2023

via The Boston Globe (Massachusetts)

With the help of the local GOP and national groups, a new crop of candidates has expanded to take over nearby school boards, posting victories that have turned Waukesha County into a laboratory for…

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Biden’s new federal czar for the middle school library

Thursday, August 10th, 2023

via Washington Examiner (District of Columbia)

'The library looms as the next big confrontation in the culture war,' the Atlantic reports, and President Biden, our Culture‐Warrior‐in‐Chief, is itching for the fight. 'The president signaled a new approach in his late‐April announcement video, when he cited book bans as evidence for his…

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Florida Schools Try to Adapt to New Rules on Gender, Bathrooms and Pronouns

Thursday, August 10th, 2023

via The Seattle Times (Washington)

Teachers in Florida will also be barred from asking students for their preferred pronouns and could lose their professional certification for violating the new laws.

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Florida says it doesn’t want indoctrination in schools — but look at the materials it just approved

Thursday, August 10th, 2023

via The Washington Post (Maryland)

The materials come from a right-wing organization that has asked other states to approve its offerings, too.

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Teacher of the Year was supposed to be an honor. Then politics intervened.

Thursday, August 10th, 2023

via The Boston Globe (Massachusetts)

As the culture wars have come for public education in the United States, the Teacher of the Year contest has become yet another battlefield.

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On-campus DEI bureaucrats are already ditching new loyalty oaths

Wednesday, August 9th, 2023

via Washington Examiner (District of Columbia)

Will the last diversity, equity, and inclusion bureaucrat to leave their office on campus please turn out the lights?

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Indiana Attorney General focuses on ‘religious liberties’ in updated Parents’ Bill of Rights

Tuesday, August 8th, 2023

via NWI Times (Indiana)

Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita unveiled on Tuesday the fourth and possibly final installment of his so-called Parents' Bill of Right. It primarily focuses on religious expression in school.

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Trump says Jack Smith a ‘deranged lunatic’ during wide ranging rally speech in N.H.

Tuesday, August 8th, 2023

via Boston Herald (Massachusetts)

On Friday the Special Counsel, who the president described as a 'deranged lunatic,' asked U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan to issue a protective order barring Trump from sharing information received during discovery.

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Air Force veteran Tony Grady joins Nevada’s crowded Senate GOP field, which includes former ally

Tuesday, August 8th, 2023

via The Washington Post (Maryland)

Retired Air Force Lt. Col. and former Lt. Gov. candidate Tony Grady announced his bid for U.S. Senate on Tuesday, joining an increasingly crowded GOP field hoping to unseat Democrat Jacky Rosen in…

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Attorney General Todd Rokita releases Parents’ Bill of Rights on religious freedom

Tuesday, August 8th, 2023

via Indystar (Indiana)

Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita announced an updated Parents' Bill of Rights that tackles religious freedom in public schools.

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What is PragerU? The conservative education platform now in Florida schools

Tuesday, August 8th, 2023

via KHON2 (Hawaii)

The Florida Department of Education is raising alarm with its recent approval of the conservative education platform PragerU, which touts itself as an alternative to progressive 'indoctrination,' for use in classrooms this school year.

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