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- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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- The State
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- Lexington Herald-Leader
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Wisconsin school district rejects award-winning novel about Japanese internment for being 'diverse'
Board members of a school district in southeastern Wisconsin rejected the use of “When the Emperor Was Divine,” a novel about Japanese American incarceration during World War II, for a high school class. The Muskego-Norway school district’s curriculum committee had previously endorsed the 2002 novel by author Julie Otsuka for use in a 10th-grade accelerated English class. The book, which is about the incarceration of a Japanese American family during World War II, was the recipient of the American Library Association’s Alex Award and the Asian American Literary Award.
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FBI agents have arrested a Filipino American teacher in O‘ahu, Hawaii, and charged him with distribution of child pornography. Alden Bunag, 33, was served search warrants at his home and on his person. “The sexual abuse of children – a reprehensible crime – is especially exploitative when committed by a teacher against a minor student victim,” U.S. Attorney for the District of Hawaii Clare E. Connors said in a news release.
- USA TODAY
Sorrow, pain as final Uvalde victim is buried: 'We are basically in a state of undeclared civil war'
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Suring superintendent resigns six months after controversial strip searches of students
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- People
Ohio State University Wins Trademark for Word 'THE' After Years-Long Legal Battle
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‘We’re scared for our lives going to school’: Are we listening as our children ask for help?
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- Associated Press
Graduating Uvalde High School class remembers slain children
Almost 300 high school seniors received their diplomas Friday in Uvalde in the shadow of the massacre of 19 elementary school students and two teachers one month earlier. The 288 red-gowned Uvalde High School seniors sat in 100-degree heat at the school stadium on the one-month anniversary of the mass shootings. Before them were arrayed 21 “Uvalde Strong” placards, representing those killed, as school and student leaders spoke.
- Quartz
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