Schools are allowed to keep a childs sexuality a secret from their parents. The Senior National correspondent kevin corke is live in dc with the breaking information on this. Kevin good evening. Reporter evening trace. Three Monmouth County new jersey districts are being sued by the state of new jersey for passing versions of policy requiring teachers to inform parents if a student is seeking a transgender accommodation, such as using a new pronoun or bathroom. Today was the first time the state publicly argued its case against the middletown, marlboro and Manalapan Englishtown School Districts, districts whose leaders agree that the aim here, trace, is to strike a balance between care for the children and the rights of parents. I dont think that our policy is discriminatory in any way. I think we carefully crafted it to be compassionate and to actually attend to the needs of our district. Reporter meanwhile a spokesperson for the Office Of The Attorney General in new jersey said in a
Is up next the art of the deal by joe biden at Michael Smerconish and philadelphia. Did President Biden just snuck or President Trump with regard to the debates . By now, you know, the candidates reached an agreement this week, they will debate outside the framework of the commission on president ial debates. Theyll square off twice first in june, then in september, potentially with a Vice President ial debate inbetween, it seemed quick and organic, but i have my doubts two weeks ago, cofounder and cochair of the commission on president ial debates Frank Fahrenkopf was my guest here. I asked him if hed heard from either campaign other than the criticism that we just heard from the Trump Campaign with regard to trying to move the bates earlier in which we think weve answered as best we can, we can answer it. Weve had no contact with either campaign, which is not unusual cycle, where you normally dont have contact with pressed republican and democrat and other people who may be able to b
and i think it s more important in iowa is to visit all 99 counties, get out and make the case personally. this is a retail game in iowa. the joke in iowa is you ask a voter who they re going to support, do you like ron desantis? well, i don t know, i ve only met him three or four times so far. people in iowa, they want you in their living rooms sitting down having supper with them. there is a case to be made. you could come back, but it requires a lot of work. and it s pushing a big rock up a hill at this point. brianna, we should say on iowa that desantis numbers, his favorability among republicans there, is still quite high. he still has an opportunity, but he has been stumbling over himself for several weeks, really months here now. his message has shifted around. he wanted to be trumpier than trump. that didn t work because people liked the original better. so he has to find a winning message here. and it has to be on that stage