{"id":126936,"date":"2024-03-07T18:35:32","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T18:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=126936"},"modified":"2024-03-07T18:35:35","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T18:35:35","slug":"tennessee-house-passes-stringent-restrictions-on-pride-flags-in-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=126936","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Tennessee House passes stringent restrictions on pride flags in schools&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/lgbtq\/4491918-tennessee-house-pride-flags-schools\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Hill<\/a>: &#8220;Tennessee\u2019s Republican-controlled House voted Monday to approve legislation that would largely prevent pride flags from being displayed in public school classrooms, sending the measure to the state Senate, where it is also expected to pass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The measure,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wapp.capitol.tn.gov\/apps\/BillInfo\/Default.aspx?BillNumber=HB1605&amp;ga=113\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">House Bill 1605<\/a>, would prohibit local education agencies from displaying flags other than the United States flag and the Tennessee state flag in public schools. It would allow schools to display the POW\/MIA flag, a flag that represents a city or metropolitan government or an official school flag, among other exceptions.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hill: &#8220;Tennessee\u2019s Republican-controlled House voted Monday to approve legislation that would largely prevent pride flags from being displayed in public school classrooms, sending the measure to the state Senate, where it is also expected to pass. The measure,\u00a0House Bill 1605, would prohibit local education agencies from displaying flags other than the United States flag&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=126936"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126937,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126936\/revisions\/126937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}