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Republican states challenge new Title IX rules protecting LGBTQ+ students

Politics
Amanda Smith

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican states are filing a barrage of legal challenges against the Biden administration’s new expanded campus sexual assault rules, ...

Conservative states challenge federal rule on treatment of transgender students

Politics
Amanda Smith

At least five Republican state attorneys general are challenging a federal regulation that seeks to protect the rights of transgender students in ...

Will Less Homework Stress Make California Students Happier?

U.S.
Amanda Smith

This article was originally published in CalMatters. Some bills before California’s Legislature don’t come from passionate policy advocates, or from powerful interest ...

Morehouse faculty and students raise concerns about Biden’s graduation speech

Politics
Amanda Smith

ATLANTA — Morehouse College’s leadership is set to hold a call on Thursday — where faculty will get the chance to speak ...

Police storm Yale University’s campus with riot gear, arrest students as hundreds stage anti-Israel protest

U.S.
Amanda Smith

Police clad with riot gear swarmed Yale University’s Connecticut campus early Monday and started arresting students who had been staging an anti-Israel ...

Education Department boosts legal defenses for transgender students

Politics
Amanda Smith

The Biden administration is cementing its efforts to codify new protections for transgender students and overhaul much of a Trump-era policy that ...

Licking Heights helps students prepare for life after high school with job fair

U.S.
Amanda Smith

Usually, the auxiliary gym at Licking Heights High School is used for gym classes, large meetings and an athletic event or two. ...

Tennessee lawmakers dismantle HBCU’s board of trustees, to the dismay of students and alumni

Politics
Amanda Smith

Black lawmakers, students and alumni of Tennessee State University are outraged that Gov. Bill Lee, in an unprecedented move, signed into law ...

West Virginia bill letting teachers remove ‘threatening’ students from class heads to governor

Politics
Amanda Smith

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia bill that would provide a framework for public school teachers on removing kindergarten and elementary ...

A decade since the Chibok abduction, more than 1,400 Nigerian students have been kidnapped

World
David Turner

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — What seemed like an aberration a decade ago when militants kidnapped 276 schoolgirls in Nigeria’s Chibok community has ...