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Florida lawmakers pushing bill that critics say would increase school book bans — again
GOP lawmakers say the bill would protect children from harmful content. Critics argue it would escalate Florida books bans.
California wants more kids in bilingual classes — but won’t spend enough to expand them
Dual language immersion programs have become sought after by parents of all backgrounds wanting their children to become bilingual.
Oregon Republican lawmaker reads sexually explicit passage on House floor to call out bill that would ban book bans
Rep. Dwayne Yunker, a Republican from Grants Pass, sparked a small frenzy in the Oregon House Monday morning when he read aloud a book passage detailing an explicit sex scene to protest a bill that ...
The New Republic1dOpinion
Schumer Cancels Multiple Book Tour Stops After Shutdown Surrender
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has postponed multiple stops on his book tour as he faces backlash from the rest of the ...
Texas Standard1d
The deadline to file bills has passed. Here’s how officials could still get new laws through
“There actually is still a way to file bills, although it’s very hard. You have to get four-fifths of your chamber to agree ...
Raw Story1d
GOP lawmaker pushes plan for every Trump executive order to become legislation
Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) said he was pushing a plan to immediately introduce President Donald Trump's executive orders as legislation — no matter how outlandish.During a Sunday interview on Fox News, ...
GOP lawmakers tackle challenge of turning Trump actions into laws
Republicans lawmakers who are jubilant about President Trump’s flurry of executive orders and actions reshaping the ...
The Valdosta Daily Times3d
Growing frustration with smartphones could lead to statewide ban in Georgia schools
A societal backlash against the dizzying distraction of smartphones has gained momentum in the General Assembly, where legislation to ban the devices in schools remains in play after last week’s ...
The Public's Radio4d
New bill would combat efforts to ban and censor books in R.I.
Since 2021 there have been over 30 book challenges in Rhode Island. In fighting these lawsuits, schools and libraries across ...
Southern Poverty Law Center4d
Struggle for control of public libraries in full swing across the Deep South
The culture wars are heating up the stacks as more than a third of the books banned during the 2023-2024 school year featured ...
The Forward4d
The Bible could become law in West Virginia, but what would that mean?
In Christian nationalism push, Republican Delegate Henry Dillon wants to amend the state constitution to include the Bible as ...
Opinion
Voices: We teach at USU. SB334 is an attack on our academic freedom, and it’s bad for students.
Across [USU's] College of Humanities and Social Sciences, the faculty we have talked to have expressed feelings of intense betrayal — not just by the Legislature, but by our own university’s ...