URBANDALE, Iowa — What’s in a name? For one district, a student going by a nickname other than what is on their birth certificate will need to be signed off by a parent. Parents at the Urbandale Community School District were made aware at the beginning of the school year that students wishing to be […]
(JTA) A new Iowa state law forbidding instruction on sexual and gender identity prompted one school district this week to briefly order staff to remove Art Spiegelman’s “Maus” and hundreds of other books from its shelves. But days later following national outrage, the district reversed course, issuing a trimmed-down list of 65 books […]
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A new Iowa state law forbidding instruction on sexual and gender identity prompted one school district this week to briefly order staff to remove “Maus” and hundreds of other books from its shelves.