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Georgia senators again push conservative aims for schools

Mar. 26, 2024 18:09 PM EDT

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia's Republican state senators are making another attempt to impose a conservative stamp on the state's public schools, passing a bill Tuesday that would ban transgender girls from playing high school sports with other girls, limit sex education and require a system for...

A Nebraska bill to subject librarians to charges for giving 'obscene material' to children fails

Mar. 20, 2024 17:36 PM EDT

A bill that would have held school librarians and teachers criminally responsible for providing “obscene material” to Nebraska students in grades K-12 failed to break a filibuster Wednesday in the Legislature. But heated debate over it led the body’s Republican Speaker of the...

Georgia lawmakers support immigration crackdown, religious liberty protections at deadline

Mar. 01, 2024 00:19 AM EST

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia lawmakers pushed through dozens of bills before a key deadline Thursday, the last day for legislation to pass either the House or Senate and advance to the other legislative chamber for consideration this year. Lawmakers supported plans to tighten rules on...

Sex ed classes in some states may soon watch a fetal development video from an anti-abortion group

Feb. 22, 2024 12:13 PM EST

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Baby Olivia isn't a real baby. It's an animated fetus that develops over the course of a three-minute video that has become a new front in state-level abortion politics. Bills in the Iowa, Kentucky, Missouri and West Virginia legislatures would require...

Georgia GOP senators seek to ban sexually explicit books from school libraries, reduce sex education

Feb. 21, 2024 21:51 PM EST

ATLANTA (AP) — Republican senators in Georgia want to cull sexually explicit books from schools, ban sex education for younger students, display the Ten Commandments in classrooms and allow religious chaplains to counsel teachers and students. The measures, which passed Senate...

How Dominican women fight child marriage and teen pregnancy while facing total abortion bans

Jan. 26, 2024 19:40 PM EST

AZUA, Dominican Republic (AP) — It was a busy Saturday morning at Marcia González’s church. A bishop was visiting, and normally she would have been there helping with logistics, but on this day she was teaching sex education at a local school. “I coordinate activities at the...