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A social media post about a book at Gemini Middle School in Niles has generated a wide variety of opinions on what’s appropriate for adolescents to read at what age, but a spokesperson for East Maine School District 63 said that no teacher ever assigned the book in question. That spokesperson, Janet Spector Bishop, said a seventh-grade student chose the book from the seventh-grade classroom ...

School districts are outsourcing the difficult job of digitally cataloging books.

To understand themselves. there is no politician in america who has seized on this concept of parents writes more publicly, and more aggressively than florida governor, ron desantis. he signed the stop woke bill, which restricted discussions of race in florida classrooms and florida workplaces. he signed the parental rights and education bill, prohibiting classroom instruction on sexual orientation, or gender identity and kindergarten through third grade. this week, florida lawmakers introduced a bill to expand the ban on gender identity education through eighth grade. the bill would also ban ...

If you would study history, you should've known to mess with us and education, always ends in your defeat. [applause] you talk about florida being, woke, we went from woke to white. and when we are -- until we so tell the whole story. >> sharpton invoked a long history of civil rights protests in america, and how they've moved the needle of progress. today's demonstrations served as a reminder of desantis that that pattern of protest and progress will continue, no matter how many history courses and books he tries to ban. in the meantime, there are still classroom libraries that have been pape...

Teachers have been called groomers. >> desantis passed laws that say they empower parents. >> floridians want our school systems to be about educating kids, not indoctrinating them. >> there's a boy that likes a boy in the series. >> and stephanie walter is his mother. >> i think what the legislation is stoking fear that things are happening in the classroom that are not happening. >> these all have to go, so i have some health issues that i don't know how much i will be in the classroom. it's very upsetting and it's really hard for me to not just want to yell and scream about, you know, how c...