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COCONUT CREEK, Fla. — When Daisy was 10, she stood in front of a microphone in a green dress, her long hair pulled back in a purple headband. “Living in Broward County has given me the sense of safety,” she said to the Broward County School Board members, who were honoring LGBTQ History Month, “knowing that the school board has my back.” Daisy, a transgender girl, seemed to be growing up in an era of unprecedented acceptance. That was 2017, two years before Gov. Ron DeSantis would take office. In a short time, she crossed a cultural chasm. Schools in Florida — and even Broward, the most Democr......

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A group of parents in the Woodland Joint Unified High School District say they have collected enough signatures for a measure on the March 5 ballot to recall school board trustee Emily MacDonald for “prejudicial” comments she made about “transgenderism” at a meeting last summer. Laura Brubaker and Karen Bayne organized the recall effort after MacDonald spoke about the “social contagion” of “transgender identification” at a June 15 board discussion of the district’s PRIDE Month resolution. “While I share with everyone here tremendous respect for the achievements and contrib......

OXFORD, Mich. — Parents of children murdered in the 2021 Oxford High School attack demanded that school staff who declined to be interviewed for the independent investigation be compelled to talk and the report updated with their interviews. Buck Myre and Steve St. Juliana, whose children were among four killed in the Nov. 30, 2021, shooting, told Oxford Superintendent Vickie Markavitch during a listening session Thursday that only 35% of school staff cooperated with interviews with Guidepost Solutions. "How can you learn if we don’t get to the bottom of what happened on the 30th?" said Myre, ......

NEW YORK — One of Henry Hernandez’s biggest joys this past year has been watching his daughter thrive at her new school. Everything else — the irregular gigs, asylum applications, legal fees and instability of living at the emergency shelter The Row — has passed by in a blur of stress, bureaucracy and disappointment for the migrant from Venezuela. His 6-year-old daughter, Antonella, loves “everything about school,” at P.S. 116 Mary Lindley Murray in Murray Hill. She’s learning English faster than anyone else in the family. He’s proud of her. She’s actually charting a course he imagined as he s......

The head of Florida’s university system has directed schools to disband campus chapters of a pro-Palestinian student group he alleges are in “support of terrorism.” In a letter Tuesday to the state’s 12 university presidents, State University System Chancellor Ray Rodrigues said the Florida chapters of Students for Justice in Palestine “must be deactivated.” He said that a “toolkit” released by the group described the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel as “the resistance” and “unequivocally states: ‘Palestinian students in exile are PART of this movement, not in solidarity with this movement.’” The......

Alice Rogers admitted that identifying as a Democrat in Siskiyou County felt a bit “like coming out.” She stood under a canopy of tall trees in Weed’s Carrick Park on a warm June afternoon along with about 100 other local Democrats at the county party’s annual fundraising dinner. Like many Democratic women across the U.S., Rogers, the chair of the Democratic Central Committee of Siskiyou County, and Robin Richards, the committee’s treasurer, were called to action after the election Donald Trump in 2016, as they watched their Republican neighbors ride the MAGA wave further to the right. “I didn......