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Tennessee lawmakers pass bill to require anti-abortion group video, or comparable, in public schools

Apr. 04, 2024 18:40 PM EDT

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee would become the latest state to require public school students to watch a video on fetal development produced by an anti-abortion group, or something comparable, under legislation that is headed to Republican Gov. Bill Lee's desk. The...

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...