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A U.S. District Court Judge has denied the district’s request to end the legal proceedings in a lawsuit over book bans and removals in Colorado’s Elizabeth School District. The motion filed by ...
The conservative-dominated US Supreme Court is slated to hear a case on Tuesday about whether parents have the religious right to pull their children from classes when books containing LGBTQ ...
BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — A bill aims to make a cherished Cajun holiday story Louisiana’s official Christmas children’s book. House Bill 273, introduced by Rep. Annie Spell (R ...
Justice Elena Kagan said that while she was “struck” by the content of the books for young students, the parents are asking the court to allow opt-outs for anything they find objectionable.
A Colorado school district is once again under court order to put 19 books it had deemed “highly sensitive” back on its library shelves. The Denver-based 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on ...
But this time the key documents in the court record are seven colorful books for young children, with sparse text and cheerful illustrations. They include “Pride Puppy,” an alphabet primer ...
Battle of the books: What LGBTQ+ books are at the center of a new Supreme Court case? On April 22, the Supreme Court will consider whether the school has unconstitutionally burdened the parents ...
A divided US Supreme Court signaled it will back public school parents seeking to opt out of classroom lessons that incorporate LGBTQ-friendly books, as the justices heard a case that could ...
What are the controversial books included in the case? Below are a few of the books singled out in the court filing. The titles were introduced in the district's reading curriculum at the start of ...
The Supreme Court’s conservative majority on Tuesday signaled it will require schools to provide opt-outs for parents who have religious objections to LGBTQ+ books read in elementary schools ...
The court seemed likely to find that the Montgomery County school system, in suburban Washington, could not require elementary school children to sit through lessons involving the books if parents ...
The board said in court filings that the opt-outs had become "unworkable," as some schools had high numbers of absences, and all faced "substantial hurdles" in using the books while honoring opt ...