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  2. Smith v. Board of School Commissioners of Mobile County

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    Board of School Commissioners of Mobile County, 827 F.2d 684 (11th Cir. 1987), [1] was a lawsuit in which the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit held that the Mobile County Public School System could use textbooks which purportedly promoted "secular humanism", characterized by the complainants as a religion.

  3. Censorship of school curricula in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Alabama's SBOE banned the teaching of concepts that impute fault, blame, a tendency to oppress others, or the need to feel guilt or anguish to persons solely because of their race or sex.” [6] Georgia's SBOE banned teaching that "indoctrinates" students. Florida's SBOE prohibited teaching about critical race theory or the 1619 Project. [6]

  4. Island Trees School District v. Pico - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Not only a matter of education - HuffPost

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    within the Hispanic community is another necessary step in improving this group’s educational achievement. Hispanics encounter several barriers to college access. According to the Pew Center, only 53 percent of Hispanic high school graduates are at least “minimally qualified” for admission to a four-year college (PEW CENTER: 2004, 2).

  6. Malathion - Wikipedia

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    Malathion is an organophosphate insecticide which acts as an acetylcholinesterase inhibitor. In the USSR , it was known as carbophos , in New Zealand and Australia as maldison and in South Africa as mercaptothion .

  7. Los Angeles school board votes to ban smartphones

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    (Reuters) -The Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education on Tuesday voted to ban smartphones for its 429,000 students in an attempt to insulate kids from distractions and social media ...

  8. 1989 California medfly attack - Wikipedia

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    A person or group calling itself "The Breeders" took responsibility for the bioterrorist attack, [4] as financial retaliation for the environmental damage caused by the state's Malathion aerial spraying; the group's members were never identified.

  9. This school banned cellphones 4 years ago. Here's how it's ...

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    The school’s phone ban was a grassroots effort that began with a few teachers volunteering to pilot the program in their classrooms. Full faculty buy-in came next, followed by convincing parents.