Trump administration removes gender data from school civil rights survey
The Trump administration this week quietly released an update to a major survey on civil rights in schools that was scrubbed of all data related to nonbinary students or bullying based on gender identity. The numbers come from the Education Department’s Civil Rights Data Collection, a federal survey of nearly every public school in the […]
Tips for finding a job after serving time in prison
NEW YORK (AP) — Don Christian had never held a regular job when he left prison. A conviction at age 19 for selling drugs kept him confined through young adulthood and into his early 40s. When he got out after serving 23 years and started looking for work, “I had to start from the bottom. […]
Trump administration rule would end tax exemption for colleges that keep DEI
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is proposing a new rule that would strip private schools and colleges of their tax-exempt status if they provide targeted help to students based on their race, a significant escalation in the White House’s campaign to eradicate diversity programs directed at Black, Hispanic and other minority students. The Treasury […]
Schools in Asia look to hold safety drills after latest gun attack
SAN RAFAEL, Philippines (AP) — A school shooting this week in Thailand may spark greater interest in holding more active shooter drills at educational institutions, as Southeast Asian nations consider measures to curb gun violence. Students in San Rafael, in the Philippines, took part in the Nationwide Simultaneous School Safety Drill on Thursday, an event […]
German far-right AfD targets the country’s iconic Bauhaus ahead of key election
DESSAU, Germany (AP) — Nearly a century after the Nazis shut down the world-famous Bauhaus school of design, it has once again become a cultural battleground between Germany’s establishment and the far-right Alternative for Germany party, which has called the art movement an “aberration of modernism.” Founded in 1919, Bauhaus blurred lines between art and […]
Childcare assistance waitlists grow as daycare, food, gas costs rise
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — There’s the mother of two who needs a full-time job to keep up with the bills, but can’t afford full-time childcare. There’s the medical technician who stopped buying groceries and turned to food banks so she could pay for her infant’s care. There’s the baby who remained in foster care, even after […]
AI banned for elementary and middle school students in NYC
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City’s public schools will temporarily ban elementary and middle school students from using artificial intelligence tools during the upcoming school year, Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced Wednesday. The one-year moratorium — part of a broader assessment of how children in the nation’s largest school system interact with the technology — […]
How Shabana Basij-Rasikh escaped Taliban rule to educate Afghan girls in Rwanda
Shabana Basij-Rasikh smiles as she points to the sign in the middle of campus: School of Leadership of Afghanistan, SOLA, a home in Rwanda. The sign, like the campus, is virtually brand new – with classes beginning for the first time later this month. It is a declaration, but also a symbol of the danger […]
Justice Department sues Kansas school system on transgender policies
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Department of Justice filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against the school system in Kansas City, Kansas, over its policies on transgender students. The lawsuit comes more than a year after the Education Department first said it was investigating four districts in Kansas following a complaint from the Defense of Freedom […]
Higher education is transforming lives in Wyoming prisons
One spring afternoon when the sun beamed down on the Wyoming Women’s Center, a prison in Lusk, six students sat in a fluorescent-lit room with laptops open before them. A brown and gold University of Wyoming banner with a cowboy on a bucking bronc hung on the far wall. “So, who’s going first?” asked Rob […]