Texas Bible Reading Mandate Pushes Public Schools Toward an Establishment Clause Showdown

Texas Bible Reading Mandate requires millions of students to study Bible stories and is expected to trigger major constitutional challenges.

https://thedemocracyadvocate.com/news-to-know/education/texas-bible-reading-mandate/

Faced with court orders to #desegregate its schools, #Virginia's #PrinceEdwardCounty instead defunded & closed all of its #PublicSchools on #ThisDayInHistory in 1959, showing the way #conservatives always put their #IdentityPolitics over moral responsibility to American children.
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A Saskatchewan coalition against the Parents' Bill of Rights has passed on 600 letters to Regina Public Schools asking its board to refuse to comply with the controversial law.

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The proposed new Texas requirements that children be taught Bible stories in school can be seen as an attempt to goad non-christians, secularists, and pluralists to show they can also take advantage of the supreme court ruling that schools have to provide alternative instruction when parents have a religious objection to materials (in that case books where non-hetero people exist). This is a calculated attempt to get people from all sides and beliefs to overburden #PublicSchools with their objections so the "brilliant" solution will be school vouchers for private schools and religious publicly funded charter schools.

Folks who believe in public schools, and have kids in them still need to understand that yes, they receive indoctrination, and you do need to incolulate your kids against it. With escalated religious indoctrination you'll just have to do some more, and organize. Collective problems require collective solutions. More individualism won't defeat individualism.

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Missouri higher education officials feel pressure to overhaul funding formula • Missouri Independent

The Missouri Department of Higher Education and Workforce Development prepares to craft a funding formula that keeps state aid flat.

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Janeese #LewisGeorge, a #DemocraticSocialist, leads Kenyan R. McDuffie by double digits in the Democratic primary for #DCmayor, boosted by voters who find her more honest & think she will do a better job handling issues of #affordability & #PublicSchools, acc/to a Washington Post-Schar School poll. But a quarter of voters remain undecided about the race as the primary enters its final days.

I’d love it if a democratic socialist ran the city #Trump lives in.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2026/06/05/lewis-george-leads-dc-mayoral-race-many-undecided-post-schar-school-polls-finds/

Lewis George leads in D.C. mayoral race, Post-Schar School poll finds

Janeese Lewis George leads Kenyan R. McDuffie by double-digits in the Democratic primary for D.C. mayor, according to a Washington Post-Schar School poll.

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