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GOP's war on books: Only the beginning

Gutting public schools, targeting booksellers, shutting down libraries: Every censorship tactic is on the table

Salon

Florida Gov Ron DeSantis plans to fight ‘woke CEOs’ at financial services like Paypal and others

“Do we govern ourselves through our constitution and through our elections or do we have these masters of the universe occupying these commanding heights of society?” the Republican governor said during a press briefing

The Independent UK

Focus on the economy, not ‘critical race theory’ or sex ed: Inside Democrats’ plan to win back parents

WASHINGTON — The era of COVID-19 school closures appears to be over, but parents’ frustration with that difficult period is set to play a pivotal role in November’s midterm elections.

Los Angeles Times

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Moms 4 Liberty: Warriors with big plans

At the Moms for Liberty summit, they gave Ron DeSantis a sword. That wasn't the strangest or scariest part by far

Salon

At Moms for Liberty event in Tampa, a push to win school board elections

TAMPA, Fla. — Tia Bess carried a dog-eared copy of the graphic novel “Gender Queer” in her purse as she stood in line to hear Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speak Friday morning.

Tribune News Service

DeSantis takes the fight to school boards with rare endorsements

Other GOP governors may follow as school board kingmakers in their states. For now, Florida is driving the trend.

Axios

Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law and ‘critical race theory’ ban are in effect. Teachers brace for ‘straight-up indoctrination’

Parallel efforts from state programmes and activist groups to censor classrooms and rewrite history join a long-running campaign to undermine public schools, Alex Woodward reports

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Progressives take a leaf out of the conservative playbook to target school boards

There has been a groundswell of conservative enthusiasm around school politics in the last few years. Progressives are hoping to have their own source of organization to counter that enthusiasm.

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Only one reviewer complained of ‘critical race theory’ in Florida math textbooks

ORLANDO, Fla. — Only one reviewer who dug into the math books publishers hoped to sell to Florida schools complained there was “critical race theory” embedded in the texts, and she was a member of the conservative Moms for Liberty group who looked at just two high school books, according…

Orlando Sentinel

Florida school district pulls 2 books about transgender kids, including ‘I Am Jazz’

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Two books about transgender kids, including Broward resident Jazz Jennings’ “I Am Jazz,” have been removed from Palm Beach County classrooms and libraries in response to a new Florida law.

Tribune News Service

Florida’s feuding over education laws is in national spotlight. GOP seizes the moment

MIAMI — Amanda Silvestri, a mother of two elementary school children, traveled from Palm Beach County to Tallahassee in January to tell state lawmakers she was concerned about what her kids were being taught in school.

Miami Herald

Where did the book bans come from?

The campaign to get LGBTQ-friendly books and authors of color off the shelves isn't "grassroots" or spontaneous

Salon

Right's CRT attack goes back decades

As Sergio Munoz of Media Matters explains, CRT panic is the latest chapter in a long assault on civil rights

Salon

US conservatives linked to rich donors wage campaign to ban books from schools

Experts warn trend is accelerating as groups push for bans of works that often address race, LGBTQ issues and marginalized people

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