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• Republicans train their fire on Kamala Harris

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• Florida curriculum on slavery is an obscene revision of Black history

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• DeSantis doubles down on claim that some Blacks benefited from slavery

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• New Florida standards teach students that some Black people benefited from slavery because it taught useful skills

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• Protester opposed to book bans gets Bible pulled from some Utah schools

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• Texas pushes church into state with bills on school chaplains, Ten Commandments

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• As New York City Schools Face a Crisis, Charter Schools Gain Students

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• How a School District Got Caught in Virginia’s Political Maelstrom

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• Over 6 in 10 Americans favor leaving race out of college admissions, Post-Schar School poll finds

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• After court ruling, activists push prayer into schools

  7/26/22

• Claim that sex ed ‘grooms’ kids jolted Nebraska politics a year before it swept the nation

  7/25/22

• Texas education board rejects proposal to call slavery ‘involuntary relocation’

  7/1/22

• Supreme Court further erodes separation between church and state in case of praying football coach

  6/27/22

• Supreme Court majority sympathetic to coach who prayed at midfield

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• Supreme Court says Maine cannot deny tuition aid to religious schools

  6/21/22

• The next book ban: States aim to limit titles students can search for

  5/10/22

• Florida rejects math books with ‘references’ to critical race theory

  4/21/22

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  4/1/22

• Florida just became the largest state to mandate personal finance education in high school

  3/23/22

• Taliban reopens Afghan schools — except for girls after sixth grade

  3/23/22

• Schools nationwide are quietly removing books from their libraries

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• When colleges defraud students, should the government go after school executives?

  3/17/22

• These schools did less to contain Covid. Their students flourished.

  3/14/22

• Georgia state Senate passes bill targeting 'divisive concepts' in schools

  3/14/22

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  2/25/22

• Education, traditionally a strength, has Democrats on their heels

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• Public education is facing a crisis of epic proportions

  1/31/22

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  1/25/22

• Gov. Abbott promises parental ‘Bill of Rights’ in Texas education

  1/21/22

• Anti-CRT Activists Have A New Focus

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  1/10/22

• Teacher Calls Parents Bigots And Evangelical Kooks

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  11/17/21

• When parents scream at school board meetings, how can I teach their children?

  10/28/21

• Virginia's Youngkin spotlights woman who tried to ban Toni Morrison's 'Beloved'

  10/28/21

• Attorney General Merrick Garland defends memo responding to threats of violence against school board members

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• NYC to phase out separate classes for 'gifted and talented' students

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• Florida Gov. DeSantis threatens to hold school leaders’ pay if they require masks: ‘Financial consequences’

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• Texas Senate Bill Drops Teaching Requirement That Ku Klux Klan Is ‘Morally Wrong’

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• University considers creating ENTIRE academic department for ‘critical race’ studies

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• Surge of Student Suicides Pushes Las Vegas Schools to Reopen

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• ‘A hack job,’ ‘outright lies’: Trump commission’s ‘1776 Report’ outrages historians

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• ‘Don’t cut and keep going’: Bernal seeks to preserve education funding in 2021 legislative session

  1/7/21

• Trump opens up federal dollars for private school vouchers amid pandemic

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• Is SF Changing the Name of a School Because Lincoln Didn’t Show ‘Black Lives Matter’?

  12/16/20

• San Diego Unified changes grading practices to be equitable, less punitive

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  11/29/20

• Debate Over US History Class Began Long Before 1619 Project

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• Are The Risks Of Reopening Schools Exaggerated?

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• Trump's 1776 education plan part of a decades-long, right-wing movement — but scarier

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• Trump alleges ‘left-wing indoctrination’ in schools, says he will create national commission to push more ‘pro-American’ history

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• White House directs federal agencies to cancel race-related training sessions it calls ‘un-American propaganda’

  9/5/20

• Betsy DeVos’s controversial new rule on campus sexual assault goes into effect

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• CDC director concedes schools in ‘hot spots’ face tougher call on reopening

  7/25/20

• We missed one chance to open schools safely. Here’s the new, more expensive, option.

  7/18/20

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  3/28/20

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• Harvard Does Not Discriminate Against Asian-Americans in Admissions, Judge Rules

  11/25/19

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  11/16/19

• California groups demand UC drop the SAT, alleging it illegally discriminates against disadvantaged students

  11/4/19

• A top Trump student loan official just resigned, calling for debt forgiveness

  10/25/19

• Black girls say D.C. school dress codes unfairly target them. Now they’re speaking up.

  9/5/19

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• Chicago Teachers Union group’s trip to Venezuela, praise of socialist leader slammed as ‘propaganda tour’

  8/23/19

• Two African American High School Boys Make History at Harvard Debate

  8/2/19

• These Queens Won’t Be Stopped.

  7/31/19

• City officials canceled a children’s story time hosted by drag queens. Then a church saved the day.

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• 'This Is Reparations:' S.F. School Board Votes to Paint Over Controversial High School Mural

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• Transgender students poised to get expanded protections in Arlington

  7/13/19

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  6/9/19

• A conservative Christian group is pushing Bible classes in public schools nationwide — and it’s working

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• Warren unveils student loan and free college plan

  4/25/19

• Trump’s free speech executive order isn’t about free speech

  3/24/19

• There’s a Larger Lie Beyond the College Admissions Bribery Case

  3/18/19

• Move Over Soccer. High School Shooting Teams Are Growing Thanks to the NRA

  3/11/19

• Boston City councilman renews push for optional 13th year of school

  3/8/19

• Conservatives Lash Out at Reporter for Reporting on Christian Schools

  1/29/19

• Trump Administration Scraps Guidance That Protects Students From Racist Discipline

  12/23/18

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  9/15/18

• 'The more you act like a lady' school sign: Sexist nonsense or best advice ever?

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• Houston school takes down 'sexist' quote from hallway wall after social media controversy

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  6/13/18

• White House proposes arming teachers, backpedals on raising age to buy guns

  3/12/18

• Education Secretary Betsy DeVos stumbles during pointed ‘60 Minutes’ interview

  3/12/18

• Trump pushes school choice, wants to use public dollars for private education

  3/10/18

• How striking West Virginia teachers’ salaries compare with teacher pay in other states

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• To Repeat: Repeal the Second Amendment

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• Education Department withdraws Obama-era campus sexual assault guidance

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• Act 10 had a profoundly negative impact on state, Pocan tells Iowa legislators

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• Trump Administration Rescinds Rules on Bathrooms for Transgender Students

  2/22/17

• CPS students sent home with anti-RAUNER letter

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