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New policy on visas adds to mounting scrutiny of international students in the US

New State Department guidance on visa applications is adding to uncertainty for America’s international students, who have faced intensifying scrutiny under President Donald Trump

The Independent UK

Hall Pass: Your Ticket to Understanding School Board Politics, Edition #66

Welcome to Hall Pass, a newsletter written to keep you plugged into the conversations driving school board politics and governance.

Ballotpedia

Texas superintendent removed LGBTQ books

The Education Department has opened what appears to be the first-of-its-kind investigation into the district

Salon

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DeSantis-backed school board takeovers

"Our kids' education cannot be left in the hand of extremists," advocate warns

Salon

How independent bookstores help in the fight against book banning and why it matters

An Atlanta store is one of hundreds of independent booksellers across the country celebrating the freedom to read as schools, universities and public libraries face attempts to ban or restrict books.

WEKU

Texas bans more books than any state

Across the country, more books have been removed as religious and conservative groups target LGBTQ and race issues

Salon

School book bans have seen an unprecedented surge this year, a new report says

If you've read a book in one sitting sometime in the last year, chances are another book was banned before you finished it.

Los Angeles Times

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Texas has banned more books than any other state, new report shows

Across the country, more books have been challenged and removed as religious and conservative groups target LGBTQ and race issues.

The Texas Tribune

Keller school officials order 41 books — including the Bible and an Anne Frank adaptation — off of library shelves

A new policy scraps community recommendations from last fall that some books that had been questioned should remain on shelves.

The Texas Tribune

Michael Hiltzik: Book-banning is on the rise, as part of the far-right's assault on democracy

Attacks on books occupy a special place among the signposts of philistinism and anti-democratic suppression.

Los Angeles Times

Hall Pass: Your Ticket to Understanding School Board Politics, Edition #9

Welcome to Hall Pass. This newsletter keeps you plugged into the conversations driving school board politics and governance. Each week, we bring you a roundup of the latest on school board elections, along with sharp commentary and research from across the political spectrum on the issues confronting school boards in…

Ballotpedia

87% of Americans live in a county that has voted for the same party in the past three presidential elections

By: Samuel Wonacott

Ballotpedia

‘Unparalleled in intensity’ – 1,500 book bans in US school districts.

Past nine months have seen censorship effort ‘unparalleled in its intensity’, with books on race and LGBTQ issues singled out

The Guardian - US

The "Maus" book ban is different

"The weight of the momentum here is so very clearly swinging in one direction"

Salon

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