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‘The voice of the Board of Education’ longtime secretary Estela Beltran to retire after 37 years

Best known for her calm, recognizable voice leading board meetings, Beltran started her career at Chicago Public Schools in 1986.

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Woman, 29, arrested for enrolling in New Jersey high school as a 15-year-old student and attending classes

‘I was in class with this woman, and talked to her, walked her from point A to point B, and never expected this to happen,’ student says

The Independent UK

Chief justice: Judges' safety 'essential' to court system

Chief Justice John Roberts is praising programs that protect judges, saying that “we must support judges by ensuring their safety.”

The Independent UK

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Jackie Calmes: Nancy Pelosi's indelible mark

On the Capitol's most historic man cave, as on much else, Nancy Pelosi has left her mark.

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CPS faces $600M financial cliff as costs shift to schools with no long-term funding plan in place

Mayor Lori Lightfoot has moved millions in pensions and other costs to CPS before it becomes independent, run by an elected board. Those new payments and longstanding financial challenges could lead to dire choices once federal pandemic relief runs out.

Chicago Sun-Times

All candidates for Canyons Board of Education District 5 in Utah complete Ballotpedia’s Candidate Connection survey

Both of the candidates running in the November 8, 2022, general election for Canyons Board of Education District 5 in Utah — incumbent Steve Wrigley and Karen Pederson — completed Ballotpedia’s Candidate Connection survey. These survey responses allow voters to hear directly from candidates about what motivates them to run…

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Ohio school board passes resolution opposing state’s gender identity policy

The Toledo Public School District (TPS) in Ohio voted unanimously to pass a resolution on October 10, 2022, that rejects the Ohio State Board of Education’s (SBOE) resolution on gender identity policies in public schools.

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All candidates for Santa Clara County Board of Education Trustee Area 7 in California complete Ballotpedia’s Candidate Connection survey

Both of the candidates running in the November 8, 2022, general election for Santa Clara County Board of Education Trustee Area 7 in California — Raeena Lari and Natalie Prcevski — completed Ballotpedia’s Candidate Connection survey. These survey responses allow voters to hear directly from candidates about what motivates them…

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'Too extreme': Colorado Board of Education majority votes down conservative 'American Birthright' academic standards

DENVER — The state Board of Education voted Wednesday against adopting a conservative set of social studies standards that highlight American patriotism as Colorado’s official guidelines for teaching history and civics.

The Denver Post

Top Kentucky education official says he's unlikely to defend charter school law

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Haaland: 'Traumatic' history shown in Brown v. Board schools

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland has joined House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn in visiting a rural South Carolina school that is now part of a National Park Service program to safeguard institutions connected to the Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown v

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‘The power of this place is undeniable’: Harriet Tubman School reopens as cultural center, museum

It’s been 60 years since Bessie Bordenave graduated from the Harriet Tubman School in Columbia, Maryland, the place still feels like a part of her.

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An NC school board cleared the room of teens to read a book’s sex scene aloud

The chair of the Cabarrus County, North Carolina, Board of Education ordered its teenage student interns to leave a public meeting this week before a board member read an oral-sex scene aloud from an award-winning teen novel.

Tribune News Service

The U.S. Supreme Court failed to uphold American ideals of liberty and equality in abortion ruling

Nearly two months have passed since the Supreme Court of the United States returned its judgment in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization — the now infamous decision that reversed half a century of established law on a woman’s right to abortion.

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Black mom sues LA Unified over cotton-picking project at elementary school, lawsuit says

LOS ANGELES — A Black parent filed a civil rights lawsuit last week against the Los Angeles Unified School District and the Board of Education, saying that a cotton field was set up at an elementary school in 2017 that was intended to teach students about the experiences of slaves.

Salon

Book-banning moms cry censorship

"Mama Bears" group files lawsuit alleging their First Amendment rights are being violated

Reason

Removal of Books With "Lascivious Content" from School Libraries Likely Constitutionally Permissible

So holds a federal district court, also stressing that "this case does not involve banning books": "A school district does not 'ban' a book when ... it 'decides not to continue possessing [a] book on its own library shelves.'"

Chicago Sun-Times

Bus service no longer guaranteed for CPS magnet, selective enrollment students

The Chicago Board of Education approved a policy Wednesday that prioritizes transportation for students with disabilities and homeless students. In other action, the board stopped short of requiring masks in schools this fall and approved a contract to keep cops in some buildings.

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Chicago Board of Education to vote on new $10.2M school police contract

The policing program at CPS has undergone major changes the past couple years after widespread protests called for the removal of officers from schools.

Chicago Sun-Times

CHA board approves leasing public housing land to CPS for new Near South Side high school

The plan is contingent on the school system receiving approval from the Board of Education for its $70 million share of the new high school.

Chicago Sun-Times

Mayoral ally picked for CPS board, pushing out member who opposes city’s plan for new Chinatown school

Former Ald. Michael Scott, the son of a former Chicago Board of Education president, is being appointed by Mayor Lori Lightfoot.

The Conversation

Decades after Brown v. Board, US schools still struggle with segregation – 4 essential reads

The Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education decision, handed down in 1954, was supposed to end racial segregation in the nation’s public schools. But that work remains undone, as evidenced by a U.S. Department of Justice collection showing dozens of active school-desegregation cases even in 2022.

Salon

Texas Senator: "Do Plessy vs Ferguson"

Cornyn made the remark via Twitter in a share of former President Barack Obama's statement on the Roe reversal

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Elizabeth Wellington: Overturning Roe v. Wade takes away the right to choose the life we want

I was born 10 months after the Supreme Court upheld a woman’s right to obtain an abortion in the 1973 landmark case of Roe v. Wade.

Chicago Sun-Times

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