August 11, 2022 | Book Bans, School Boards
Reader Commentary in the Balitmore Sun. My thanks to Dhruvak Mirani for his clear and extensive commentary on the current right-wing attacks on public education (“Don’t get distracted by Dan Cox; Maryland boards of education are under threat from right-wing...
August 08, 2022 | Book Bans, Katie Paris
“What the parents of the school district really want and are focused on are very different things than what we’re seeing is coming in from the outside,” activist Katie Paris said. Paris is the founder of Red Wine and Blue, an advocacy group that encourages...
July 26, 2022 | Book Bans, Katie Paris
Look who was featured on Good Morning America. Are you ready to be a #Troublemaker with us?
April 14, 2022 | Book Bans, Katie Paris, Ohio
“When our children don’t get to see people who look like them in the stories they are reading at school then they have to think well, maybe I’m not a part of this society. Maybe I’m not a part of this world.” Proud of our very own Julie...
March 21, 2022 | Book Bans
On a school night in late January, Stephana Ferrell, a 39-year-old mother of two elementary school children in Orange County, Fla., logged onto a virtual meeting with more than 200 other parents around the country who, like her, have been alarmed to see books pulled...
February 17, 2022 | Beverly Batte, Book Bans
Typically quiet school board meetings have turned hostile across in many communities, with heated debates over hot-button political issues like critical race theory, book bans and mask mandates. A nationwide group of women called “Red Wine and Blue” is...