Faculty, staff, students, alumni, and community members: The Georgia Board of Regents passed a policy in May 2025 requiring all institutions within the University System of Georgia (USG) to make avai...

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The Columbia County Library System Board of Trustees will hear two appeals on March 31, 2026 involving books that were relocated under the county’s 2024 shelving guidelines.

For background information and other action steps, read https://open.substack.com/pub/f2rccc/p/appeals-update-two-books-one-board. Note that emails sent to board members are public records and subject...

Columbia County School District has removed three more books and restricted a fourth following a closed-door District Media Review Committee meeting held on October 23, 2025.

The Idaho Medical Freedom Act makes it illegal to require anyone to take a vaccine or receive “medical intervention.” Leslie Manookian, the activist behind the law, hopes to make it a “societal norm” ...

WASHINGTON—Faced with ongoing budget crises, underfunded schools nationwide are increasingly left with no option but to cut the past tense—a grammatical construction traditionally used to relate all a...

Open Letter from the Georgia Helen Ruffin Reading Bowl State Steering Committee October 15, 2025 To Our Reading Bowl Coaches, Students, Librarians, and the Georgia Reading Community: Over the past sev...

School is back in session and LGBTQ+ youth continue to face even greater challenges. They need people like you to advocate for them. Join the Human Rights Campaign to learn how to best advocate for...

Revisions to Columbia County school District's Media Center Procedures

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This week, the IMLS announced their Freedom Trucks initiative. It is blatant propaganda.

The Columbia County School District is seeking Education Interpreters for the deaf and hard of hearing. Join our team of passionate educators who INSPIRE our students each day. Click here to apply!

For more background info, see previous post.

Join us as we beautify our city! This week we'll meet at May Park. Gloves, grabbers, and trash bags will be provided. So far, we've collected and removed 130 gallons of garbage from various locations.

At the August 12, 2025 Columbia County School Board Regular Meeting, the county’s most prolific book challenger, Priscilla Bence, was at it again.

The new Columbia County School District Strings Academy is taking applications for students in grades 5-12 who are interested in exploring the world of music through string instruments. Complete the s...

This summer, a group of ten passionate local educators came together in Savannah for an intensive two-week Summer Institute in the Deep Writing Project. Since 2021, Deep’s summer Writing Project […]

Since 2021, a small group of individuals have been challenging books at the Columbia County Libraries. Over 90% of book challenges have targeted LGBTQ+ content. At least four challenges were from a ri...

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Join Indivisible CSRA at Rick Allen’s Augusta Field Office to say ‘NO’ to the “Big Ugly Bill” and ‘NO’ to Trump’s War on Iran!! The Big Ugly Bill just passed a preliminary vote in the Senate and if p...

Georgia is joining the Texas A&M System and university systems from four other Republican-led states to create a new agency to set quality standards for their schools.

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Education Law Center submitted public comments opposing the U.S. Department of Education’s harmful discretionary grant priorities and urging...

On Friday, July 25, 2025, at 10 am EDT, we are scheduled to discuss Lula Dean’s Little Library of Banned Books by Kirsten Miller. A book-banning busybody with a giant chip on her shoulder and her s…

Attention residents of Columbia, Warren, Lincoln, and Burke Counties:

For decades, Georgia’s elected leaders have underinvested in the state’s public schools while expanding school voucher programs. Between 2008 and 2022, voucher programs diverted $1.3 billion to privat...

Jon Valant examines how the proposed federal tax-credit scholarship program can be plagued by fraud and discriminatory practices.

Columbia County Advocates for Public Education Organizing Meeting, Private residence near intersection of Evans to Locks Rd & Stevens Creek