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These controversies also have reached our community, where parents’ rights groups such as Moms for Liberty have made their presence felt. Candidates campaigned for school boards promising to ...
A group of Texas parents are banding together to push back on book bans in school districts across the state.. The Texas Freedom to Read Project, a coalition of parents from across the state ...
According to the syllabus of the case: . Petitioner Board of Education of the Island Trees Union Free School District, rejecting recommendations of a committee of parents and school staff that it had appointed, ordered that certain books, which the Board characterized as "anti-American, anti-Christian, anti-Sem[i]tic, and just plain filthy," be removed from high school and junior high school ...
Pupils at Carlisle Indian Industrial School, Pennsylvania, c. 1900. American Indian boarding schools, also known more recently as American Indian residential schools, were established in the United States from the mid-17th to the early 20th centuries with a primary objective of "civilizing" or assimilating Native American children and youth into Anglo-American culture.
In the first chapter of this text, Kozol examines the current state of segregation within the urban school system. He begins with a discussion on the irony stated in the above quote: schools named after leaders of the integration struggle are some of the most segregated schools, such as the Thurgood Marshall Elementary School in Seattle, Washington (95% minority) or a school named after Rosa ...
Conservative parents and groups have filed criminal complaints and book challenges against materials they say are too explicit to be in Wake County school libraries. How do Triangle schools use Epic
Several parents and staff members of the Horry County school district spoke out against a revised policy to change the way books are approved in schools.
As a last resort, the education of "children, other than white children" was permitted in public schools "provided, that a majority of the parents of the children attending such school make no objection, in writing" if there was no other means of educating them (§58). The law now required separate but equal schools (§59). [23]