Teachers unions prepare to fight anti-LGBTQ legislation
Legislation banning LGBTQ content in schools harms teachers as well as students.
By Casey Quinlan - April 20, 2022Legislation banning LGBTQ content in schools harms teachers as well as students.
By Casey Quinlan - April 20, 2022Polling results reflect a sharply politicized national debate that has consumed local school boards and, increasingly, state capitols.
By Associated Press - April 17, 2022Suzette Baker, a librarian in Llano County, Texas, was fired from her job earlier this month after she refused to comply with her manager’s order to remove books that dealt with LGBTQ people’s life experiences.
By Casey Quinlan - March 24, 2022Unfortunately for Republicans, the vast majority of Americans still support LGBTQ rights.
By Oliver Willis - March 18, 2022Transgender sports bans have spread quickly through state legislatures.
By Casey Quinlan - March 10, 202243 million Americans will be back on the hook for student loan payments in less than two months unless President Joe Biden takes action.
By Josh Axelrod - March 09, 2022Republican governors have seized on anti-trans legislation as one of their current wedge issues.
By Casey Quinlan - February 08, 2022The right-wing push for ‘parental rights’ in public school education has resulted in bills targeting LGBTQ-inclusive content.
By Casey Quinlan - January 27, 2022Republicans are chipping away at LGBTQ rights in state legislatures across the country.
By Casey Quinlan - January 11, 2022The Republican governor-elect has been quiet on his campaign promise to ban ‘CRT’ in the state’s schools, since winning in November. But teachers are still on high alert.
By Nick Vachon - December 17, 2021Resources for educators who want to help LGBTQ youth feel safe in schools have been removed from the Florida Department of Education’s website.
By Casey Quinlan - December 07, 2021State laws targeting transgender kids have left school districts across the country in a challenging legal situation, experts say.
By Casey Quinlan - December 02, 2021Chip Roy thinks schools should be defunded over lessons about racism.
By Oliver Willis - November 23, 2021Software produced by the company Gaggle alone monitors over 5.2 million students in 1,500 districts across the nation.
By Casey Quinlan - November 19, 2021Fox News repeated falsehoods from a House Republican attack against the attorney general.
By Oliver Willis - November 17, 2021One conservative political action committee focused on races in some of the wealthiest and least diverse parts of the country.
By Nick Vachon - November 11, 2021Some Republicans see the issue as a central part of their campaign strategy ahead of the 2022 midterm elections.
By Nick Vachon - November 05, 2021Donald Trump said he and the GOP nominee for Virginia governor ‘get along very well together.’
By Emily Singer - November 01, 2021Fox’s latest fearmongering image placed crosshairs over people at a school board meeting.
By Oliver Willis - October 28, 2021Cruz attacked Attorney General Merrick Garland for a memo he issued regarding threats of violence directed toward school board officials nationwide over anti-racism training and COVID-19 safety measures.
By Josh Axelrod - October 27, 2021The attorney general said in a congressional hearing on Wednesday that he would’ve regretted not acting swiftly upon receiving reports of threats to school board officials’ lives.
By Oliver Willis - October 27, 2021Fox News featured a candidate for the Loudoun County school board who opposes ‘critical race theory.’
By Oliver Willis - October 27, 2021The Virginia Republican gubernatorial nominee is leading the conservative crusade against public school officials.
By Nick Vachon - October 27, 2021Parents in Loudoun County are organizing against well-funded conservative activists.
By Nick Vachon - October 21, 2021Biggs is happy the pandemic has parents ‘waking up’ to oppose LGBTQ rights and education about racism.
By Josh Israel - October 14, 2021Several conservative members of Congress are calling for an investigation over false claims about Garland’s son-in-law.
By Matt Cohen - October 08, 2021The gang at Fox News would rather the Justice Department focus on last year’s protests than the current attacks on school board officials as they try to enforce COVID rules.
By Oliver Willis - October 07, 2021Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) said that responding to threats and violence against school board officials is an effort to ‘chill’ free speech.
By Emily Singer - October 05, 2021The Department of Justice is calling in the FBI to deal with a spate of violence and threats against school officials as Republicans rail against mask mandates and critical race theory.
By Emily Singer - October 05, 2021Fox News has framed efforts to educate young students about racism as ‘critical race theory’ and spent months encouraging conservative activists to protest it.
By Oliver Willis - September 20, 2021