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UPDATE: U.S. schools banned over 4,200 book titles last school year

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By John Fensterwald Verified, Mark Milliron, Thomas Stewart, Monica Velez Verified
| EdSource Verified
News Brief Tuesday November 19, 2024 9:40 am During the 2023-24 school year there were 10,046 instances of book bans in school districts across the U.S. impacting 4,231 titles, reports PEN America in its new report “Banned in the USA: Beyond the Shelves.” Florida and Iowa recorded the highest number of book bans during the 2023-24 school year, with over 4,500 book bans in Florida and over 3,600 in Iowa. The report listed two book bans in California, both at Escondido Union School District.
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UPDATE: Trump names Linda McMahon as his pick for education secretary

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By Mallika Seshadri, John Fensterwald Verified, Mark Milliron, Thomas Stewart
| EdSource Verified
News Brief Tuesday November 19, 2024 8:22 pm Are you ready to rumble? President-elect Donald Trump tapped his transition co-chair Linda McMahon as his pick to serve as the next secretary of the Department of Education, CNN reported. The decision, which Trump announced Tuesday night, came to fruition after it became clear that McMahon would be passed over for Commerce secretary. Trump named his other transition co-chair, Howard Lutnick, as his pick to lead the Commerce Department.
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Kamala the Unfriendly Cop

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By Thomas Stewart
| American Thinker Verified
Kamala Harris has the mindset of an unfriendly cop. Exhibit A is her controversial campaign against truancy. As San Francisco’s district attorney, and then as California’s attorney general, Kamala vigorously pushed for laws to jail or fine parents whose children failed to show up for school. The San Francisco law, adopted in 2004, said that to be truant, a student needed only to be more than 30 minutes late without a valid excuse on more than two occasions.
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California Voice: All students should have access to ‘gifted’ classes at school

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By Thomas Stewart
| Marin Independent Journal Verified
When I was in first grade, my parents applied for a local elementary school in Fresno that featured a so-called Gifted and Talented Education program. The school was nationally recognized and boasted impressive academic success rates, so who wouldn’t want to send their kid there? After passing a test, I was admitted into the school. My family was so excited. I had gained access to take strategically accelerated courses taught by specially trained teachers. The world was at my fingertips.
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