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Arkansas governor seeks exemption on travel and security records, backs off other changes

Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Republicans in the Legislature have backed off widespread limits to the state's open records law, but they are still seeking limits on what can be released about the GOP governor's travel and security

The Independent UK

Judge blocks Arkansas law requiring parental OK for minors to create social media accounts

A federal judge has blocked Arkansas from enforcing a new law that would have required parental consent for minors to create new social media accounts

The Independent UK

Sarah Huckabee Sanders wants to send Arkansas schools back to 1956

Everybody who disagrees with her educational reforms, Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders claims, is a member of “the radical woke left mob” that she’s protecting schoolchildren from.

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Arkansas veto referendum on LEARNS Act falls short of required signatures

Citizens for Arkansas Public Education and Students (CAPES) submitted signatures on July 31 to place a veto referendum on the Nov. 2024 ballot to repeal the LEARNS Act, an education bill signed by Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R).

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‘Criminal liability for librarians’: the fight against US rightwing book bans

Skye Perryman of Democracy Forward, which helped block a controversial Arkansas law, says attacks will continue

The Guardian - US

Group Submits Signatures For Veto Referendum To Overturn Arkansas LEARNS Act

Citizens for Arkansas Public Education and Students (CAPES) submitted signatures repeal the LEARNS Act

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Group submits signatures for veto referendum to overturn Arkansas LEARNS Act

Citizens for Arkansas Public Education and Students (CAPES) submitted signatures to place a veto referendum on the Nov. 2024 ballot to repeal the LEARNS Act, an education bill signed by Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R).

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Photo of Sarah Huckabee Sanders beaming next to frowning kids goes viral as child labour laws rolled back

Arkansas’ Youth Hiring Act of 2023 went into effect on 1 August

The Independent UK

Judge blocks Ark law targeting libraries

"They will not be threatened with jail for making books available to our patrons," advocate says after ruling

Salon

Trump mad Sanders won't endorse him

Tensions mount after Sanders team told Trump's operatives that she would endorse him

Salon

US cracks down on child labour violations amid loosening laws

A child died in a sawmill accident this month, as some Republican-led states move to relax child labour restrictions.

Al Jazeera

Ex-aide: Trump fantasized about Ivanka

Trump’s former chief of staff had to “remind the president that Ivanka was his daughter,” writes Miles Taylor

Salon

States are weakening their child labor restrictions nearly 8 decades after the US government took kids out of the workforce

A movement to weaken American child labor protections at the state level began in 2022. By June 2023, Arkansas, Iowa, New Jersey and New Hampshire had enacted this kind of legislation, and lawmakers in at least another eight states had introduced similar measures.

The Conversation

US judge nixes Arkansas’s ban on transgender healthcare for youth

The Arkansas ban was the first of its kind in the US, paving the way for at least 19 other states to restrict such care.

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Language for veto referendum challenging the LEARNS Act is the longest ballot title in Arkansas history

Citizens for Arkansas Public Education and Students (CAPES) began filing ballot language for a proposed veto referendum with the Arkansas attorney general in May after the Arkansas State Legislature adjourned its 2023 legislative session. After two previous attempts were rejected, Attorney General Tim Griffin certified the ballot language submitted by…

The Independent UK

Sarah Huckabee Sanders travels to Europe for 1st overseas trade mission as Arkansas governor

Sarah Huckabee Sanders is heading to Europe for her first trade mission as Arkansas governor

The Independent UK

Arkansas librarians are suing to block state law that threatens them with jailtime

Booksellers and library workers face unconsitutional restrictions and ‘extreme punishments’, plaintiffs argue

Salon

States throw thousands off Medicaid

Many have lost coverage because they failed to navigate bureaucratic mazes — not because they were ineligible

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How Sanders “stomped” Arkansas' poorest

Arkansas' new governor — infamous from the Trump White House — bids for national stage with old-school GOP meanness

The Independent UK

What is the White House correspondents’ dinner and who is hosting this year?

‘This year, they are climbing over each other to get there,’ WHCA President Tamara Keith says

Salon

Lobbying group behind child labor bills

The Foundation for Government Accountability has backed bills to expand child labor in at least three states

The Independent UK

Sarah Huckabee Sanders says she never meant job applicants to write what they admire most about her

The question was reportedly intended for summer interns, not state board applicants

The Independent UK

Missouri rules part of rapid push to limit trans health care

The push to restrict health care for transgender people has expanded beyond children, with Missouri's new limits on gender-affirming care

The Independent UK

Arkansas requires parents' OK for children on social media

Arkansas has become the second state to enact a law restricting social media use by children

Reason

Don't Freak Out Over Teens Having Fast Food Jobs

"I think it's really good for a lot of young people, no matter if they need a job or not, to work," says one college student who got her first job at 16.

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