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ACLU Demands That Two Public School Districts in Little Rock Stop Censoring LGBT Websites
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
ACLU of Arkansas Lauds Valley View School District Decision Not to Ban Book, The Kite Runner
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEJanuary 3, 2012Little Rock, AR - The American Civil Liberties Union of Arkansas is praising Monday night's decision by the Valley View School Board in Jonesboro, Arkansas to keep the book, The Kite Runner in the 12th grade English curriculum. A substitute teacher had tried unsuccessfully to have the book removed from the classroom on the basis that it contained a homosexual rape scene, profanity, content pertaining to Islamic belief, and lacked Biblical views.
Arkansas Cradle-to-Prison-Pipeline Summit
On Thursday, keynote speaker Oleta Garrett Fitzgerald, Children's Defense Funds Southern Regional Office director, spoke during the opening session of the Arkansas Cradle-to-Prison Pipeline Summit.
Arkansas Supreme Court Strikes Down Parenting Ban As Contrary To Children’s Welfare
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 7, 2011
Pro-Choice Action Needed!
Please call every member on the Public Health, Welfare and Labor Committee before Tuesday.
Arkansas' War on Women Final Report: The 2011 Legislative Session
This session the ACLU of Arkansas and it's coalition members, especially Planned Parenthood, and Arkansas NOW, successfully held the tide against 14 measures that threatened reproductive freedom and would have negatively impacted women's health.
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