by Marianne Dhenin | Aug 12, 2026 | Anti-Discrimination Laws, Black Lives Matter, censorship, education, Ethnic Studies, Israel, LAUSD, Los Angeles, News, Palestine, Public Schools
Teachers in the second-largest school district in the nation have had to remove Black Lives Matter, Land Back, and Palestinian flags from their classrooms as part of so-called corrective actions taken following a complaint alleging discrimination. The changes occurred at Downtown Magnets High School in Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD). The district has over half a million students and 1…
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by Erin Reed | May 22, 2026 | Anti-Trans Bills, Democrats, Federal Funding, House of Representatives, LGBTQ discrimination, News, Public Schools, transgender youth
On Tuesday, May 19, the U.S. House passed H.R. 2616, the “Stopping Indoctrination and Protecting Kids Act,” by a vote of 217-198. The bill would hand the Trump administration enormous leverage to strip federal funding from any school that “teaches or advances concepts” related to transgender people, codifying into federal law the anti-trans definitions from Trump’s executive order 14168…
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by Marianne Dhenin | May 3, 2026 | California, censorship, Ethnic Studies, International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), Jewish Voice for Peace, News, Palestine, Public Schools, Teachers
A bill introduced in the California legislature meant to help ensure open discussion in the state’s public schools and protect teachers from attacks is facing intense backlash and demands for its withdrawal from pro-Israel groups. Assembly Bill (AB) 2159 would make targeted amendments to a school discrimination law passed year. That law, AB 715, was championed by California’s Legislative…
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by Sasha Abramsky | Apr 23, 2026 | airports, Banking, ICE, Immigrants, immigration, Op-Ed, Public Schools, Refugees, Stephen Miller, Trump Administration
In the face of deep public opposition, the notorious Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) surges that culminated in the siege of Minneapolis have been deep-sixed, at least for now. Yet that doesn’t mean that the most anti-immigrant administration in modern U.S. history isn’t still looking for less dramatic (but at least as effective) methods to pursue its war against immigrants. In fact…
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by Chris Walker | Mar 17, 2026 | Arkansas, education, News, Public Schools, Religious Freedom, Separation of Church and State, Ten Commandments
A federal judge has placed a permanent injunction on a law in Arkansas that requires the display of the Ten Commandments in every public school classroom and library, ruling that the statute violates Supreme Court precedent and the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause. The ruling does not affect the entirety of the state, but rather six specific school districts where the children of seven…
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by Eleanor J. Bader | Mar 11, 2026 | Communism, education, Florida, Heritage Foundation, News, Public Schools, Ron DeSantis, Socialism
First, there was democratic socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders. Then, in 2018, socialists Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) and Rashida Tlaib won seats in the House of Representatives. Seven years later, in the fall of 2025, voters chose socialists Zohran Mamdani and Katie Wilson to lead New York City and Seattle, upping socialist representation in government to 250 people in 40 states.
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