NEW YORK, July 29 [Category: Sociological] -- Everytown for Gun Safety posted the following news release: * * * Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund Announces New Round of Volunteers and Everytown Leaders Endorsements, Backing 83 Candidates Across 18 States * Everytown Endorsements Include Candidates Running AZ, CT, FL, IL, KS, KY, MI, MN, MO, NY, OH, OR, PA, SC, TN, VT, VA, and WI NEW YORK -Today, Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund announced its latest round of endorsements of Moms Demand Action volunteers and Everytown Leaders running  more PR

TALLAHASSEE, Florida, July 30 (TNSLrpt) -- The Florida Auditor General released the following report (No. 2027-006) on July 27, 2026, entitled "Pasco County District School Board - Florida Education Finance Program - Attestation Examination." Here are excerpts: * * * SUMMARY SUMMARY OF ATTESTATION EXAMINATION Except for the material noncompliance described below involving teachers and reporting errors or records that were not properly or accurately prepared or were not available at the time of our examination and could not be subsequently  more PR

TALLAHASSEE, Florida, July 30 (TNSLrpt) -- The Florida Auditor General released the following report (No. 2027-005) on July 23, 2026, entitled "Review of District School Board, Charter School, and Charter Technical Career Center Audit Reports for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 2025, Pursuant to Section 11.45(7)(b), Florida Statutes." Here are excerpts: * * * SUMMARY State law 1 requires all charter schools and charter technical career centers (hereafter collectively referred to as charter schools) and certain district school boards to provi more PR

DES MOINES, Iowa, July 31 (TNSrep) -- The American Civil Liberties Union of Iowa issued the following news release on July 30, 2026: * * * ACLU of Iowa Report Finds SROs a Growing Problem in Iowa SROs impose harms upon students--especially Black students and students with disabilities--instead of keeping them truly safe. - Des Moines, Iowa -- Today the ACLU of Iowa released a report documenting the growing number of School Resource Officers (SROs) in Iowa and the many problems associated with their presence in high schools, middle schools, more PR

WASHINGTON, July 29 [Category: Sociological] -- The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee issued the following news release: * * * ADC Statement on Dismissal of Challenge to California's AB 715 * July 29, 2026 media@adc.org Washington, D.C. | A federal judge has dismissed with prejudice a lawsuit brought by California public school teachers, students, and the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) challenging Assembly Bill 715, allowing the law to remain in effect. The lawsuit argued that AB 715 fails to define "antisem more PR

WASHINGTON, July 31 -- The America First Policy Institute issued the following fact sheet: * * * WISCONSIN: THE GREAT AMERICAN COMEBACK The Economy: The Working Families Tax Cuts Delivers for America's Dairyland The Working Families Tax Cuts (WFTC)--enacted as the One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB) and signed July 4, 2025--delivers what supporters call the largest federal tax relief for working families in a generation, and its provisions are built for farm country: permanent 100% expensing for equipment and facilities, a permanent 20% small-bus more PR

CHICAGO, Illinois, July 29 -- Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul issued the following news release: * * * ATTORNEY GENERAL RAOUL BLOCKS FEDERAL CUTS TO SCHOOL MENTAL HEALTH GRANTS * Chicago - Attorney General Kwame Raoul and a coalition of 15 attorneys general announced a U.S. District Court judge granted a temporary restraining order that blocks the U.S. Department of Education from unlawfully terminating congressionally approved school-based mental health grants. The order comes just days before the Department of Education threatened more PR

NEW YORK, July 29 [Category: Sociological] -- Everytown for Gun Safety posted the following news release: * * * Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund Announces New Round of Volunteers and Everytown Leaders Endorsements, Backing 83 Candidates Across 18 States * Everytown Endorsements Include Candidates Running AZ, CT, FL, IL, KS, KY, MI, MN, MO, NY, OH, OR, PA, SC, TN, VT, VA, and WI NEW YORK -Today, Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund announced its latest round of endorsements of Moms Demand Action volunteers and Everytown Leaders running  more PR

WASHINGTON, July 30 -- Sen. Edward J. Markey, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: * * * Markey, Jayapal Reintroduce Green New Deal for Public Schools to Invest in Students, Schools, and a Livable Future * Bill Text (PDF) Washington (July 30, 2026) - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), member of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and the Environment and Public Works Committee, alongside Congresswoman Jayapal (WA-07) today reintroduced the Green New Deal for Public Schools Act, legislation that would more PR

WINTER HAVEN, Florida, July 30 -- Polk State College posted the following news: * * * Polk State and Florida Poly partner to build regional STEM pipeline * Polk State College and Florida Polytechnic University have entered into an articulation agreement, establishing the Eagle to Phoenix Pathway program for students. Polk State President Anastasios Kamoutsas and Florida Poly President Devin Stephenson signed the agreement on Thursday, July 30, at the university's campus, strengthening the partnership between the institutions and expanding  more PR

NEW YORK, July 30 -- Educators for Excellence, a teacher-led organization that ensures teachers have a leading voice in the policies that impact their students and profession, issued the following news release on July 29, 2026: * * * New Teacher Survey: Overwhelming Opposition to Dismantling Department of Education and Strong Support for Federal READ Act Educators for Excellence releases new data from a national survey of more than 2,000 K-12 public school teachers and calls for federal action to stop agency transfers and pass the READ Act.  more PR