School board postpones redistricting
School board postpones redistricting
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The Jan. 6 shooting by a six-year-old at a Newport News, Virginia, school was the third shooting in the school district in the past 18 months.
- The Clarion Ledger
JSU president Thomas Hudson receives no-confidence vote from faculty senate
The JSU faculty senate is calling for restoration of shared governance, transparency and accountability in its no-confidence vote to its president.
- AZCentral | The Arizona Republic
Teaching penalty: Tom Horne wants school letter grades to account for critical race theory
If successful, the next round of school letter grades could penalize Arizona schools for allegedly teaching topics like critical race theory.
- The Root
Student Threatens to “Shoot Cotton Pickers” at School, Prompting Investigation
The last thing America needs is the overlapping of our school shooting epidemic and the rise of hate crimes. But, here we are with a Kansas high school student caught sending a series of racist messages on social media—with a threat to bring a gun to school as the cherry on top.
- Associated Press
Taliban warn women can't take entry exams at universities
The Taliban on Saturday doubled down on their ban on women's education, reinforcing in a message to private universities that Afghan women are barred from taking university entry exams, according to a spokesman. The note comes despite weeks of condemnation and lobbying by the international community for a reversal on measures restricting women's freedoms, including two back-to-back visits this month by several senior U.N. officials. It also bodes ill for hopes that the Taliban could take steps to reverse their edicts anytime soon.
- Sacramento Bee
California has some of the most affordable universities in the country. Find out where
Fees and tuition in the California State University system have been flat for most of the last decade.
- Herald-Tribune
Friday's letters: Not all parents in thrall to DeSantis, no religion in education
They don't support governor's culture war, book banning, efforts to marginalize LGBTQ students, attacks on the press or move to overhaul New College.
- Miami Herald
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- The Root
College Board Says That DeSantis' Outburst Didn't Change AP African American Studies
We were all giving the College Board some major side-eye after they announced they were making changes to their African American Studies Advanced Placement course. The timing was just a little too close to Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ “anti-woke” tirade against the course, where he denounced the program for mentioning (*gasp*) the existence of queer Black history.
- INSIDER
I'm a Florida teacher who's been forced to cover up the books in my classroom. Here's why I'm suing Ron DeSantis.
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- ABC News
Everytown launches campaign demanding colleges, universities divest from gun industry
Students Demand Action, a grassroots network of Everytown for Gun Safety, is launching a campaign calling on colleges and universities across the country to divest from the gun industry. Students at nearly 30 colleges and universities around the country have joined the campaign, called #KillerBusiness, and are asking their colleges and universities to cut economic ties with the gun industry until these companies take accountability for their actions. Students will be organizing on their campuses to put pressure on their institutions to reveal their investments and stop funding the gun industry, according to Everytown.
- Business Insider
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- The Burlington Free Press
'I mentally visualized this day for years': Vermont contestant aims high on 'Jeopardy!'
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- Associated Press
Student groups show support for Minnesota college president
Representatives of several student groups at a Minnesota college that dismissed an adjunct art instructor for showing an image of the Prophet Muhammad to her class say they do not want the school's embattled president to resign. In a letter published Wednesday in The Oracle, the student news site at Hamline University in St. Paul, the students said they strongly support President Fayneese Miller. On Tuesday, Hamline's faculty leaders called overwhelmingly for Miller to resign, saying Miller's dismissal of the instructor violated violated academic freedom and harmed the university’s reputation.
- AZCentral | The Arizona Republic
You can hate Arizona Sen. John Kavanagh, but he's right about schools and pronouns
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- Detroit Free Press
University of Michigan athletic department: $17.1 million surplus for 2022 fiscal year
The University of Michigan athletic department has most profitable year in decade in 2022 after losing nearly $50 million in 2021.
- Florida Today
'You want to ban the books? I’m giving them away.' Activists protest Florida book-ban law
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- CBS-Newyork
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- Tallahassee Democrat
School board reacts with mixed feelings about DOE investigation into Superintendent Hanna
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