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If you’re a 17-year-old in Idaho, what you tell your therapist may not be kept private. State law now grants someone else the rights to those records: your parents. The new law, which took effect in July, gave parents more access to medical records for older teens and requires parental consent for health treatments in nearly all cases, a change state legislators said bolsters parental rights.

The play is inspired by her husband, Kyon, who met his father for the first time in 2014. Similarly, Kyon was separated from his own son for years after splitting with the child’s mother, despite efforts to see him, Edwards said. “This play is an outcry for fathers striving to be present in their children’s lives, navigating through many, many challenges that obstruct their path.” Kyon Edwards

At the end of the 2023-24 school year, LAUSD Superintendent Alberto Carvalho made an appearance during a meeting of the Community Advisory Committee (CAC) responding to recommendations made by this state-mandated group of students, parents, teachers, and other community members who have ties to those who require Special Education services. A brief question and answer period provided the leader

Earlier this year, when the Kansas House Education Committee introduced a bill that would require all school districts in the state to prohibit the use of cellphones during school hours, Kim Whitman, a mother of two and co-founder of the Phone-Free Schools Movement, reached out to her state representative to get a sense of whether she planned to support it. Much to the contrary, the legislator