Education
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Country's biggest teachers union has new leader, sway on Democratic politics not expected to change
Incoming president Princess Moss won the post as union president with 50.3% of votes.
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Taxpayers bear burden for federal student loans
Federal student loans differ significantly from private loans.
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Stealing from Students? Report finds $225M in K-12 fraud found across U.S. over six years
Open the Books, a federal spending watchdog, and the State Financial Officers Foundation, analyzed six years’ worth of reports from the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of the Inspector General
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Harvard revokes tenure of business professor over alleged data fraud
Revoking a professor's tenure has not been done by the university since at least the 1940s, when rules for the academic protection were formalized.
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Trump threatens to strip Harvard of $3B in grants and give money to trade schools
This follows the earlier freezing of $2.2 billion in grants, based on concerns over antisemitism on campus. Trump is now accusing Harvard of being "very slow" to turn over information on foreign students.
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University of Colorado Boulder offers courses on critical race theory
Courses entitled “Critical Race Theory,” “Spoken Word Latinx Poetics and Poetry,” and “Indigenous Representations in the United States” are all available through CU Boulder’s Department of Ethnic Studies.
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You Vote: Do you agree with the Trump admin order to ban Harvard from enrolling foreign students?
The DHS order required current foreign students enrolled there to leave the school or risk losing their legal status in the U.S., and would affect more than 7,000 current visa holders studying at Harvard.
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Feds launch civil rights probe into Fairfax schools after Miyares referral
Miyares’ office concluded changes at one high school l were designed to reduce the number of Asian American students.
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Judge blocks Trump admin from revoking Harvard's international student privileges
A federal judge on Friday blocked the Trump administration from revoking Harvard's ability to admit international students.
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Trump stops Harvard from enrolling international students
The Department of Homeland Security confirmed on Thursday that Secretary Kristi Noem had ordered the elimination of the school's Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) certification, Reuters reported.
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Education Department slams Biden admin for prioritizing pronoun issues over antisemitism
The official said part of this was because of the Biden administration's decision to incorporate gender identity issues within the scope of Title IX, which made them focus on misgendering cases over other alleged civil rights violations.
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Columbia students at graduation event chant 'Free Mahmoud' for ICE detained classmate
During the commencement speech, the student called for Khalil to be released and said, “You arrested us.”
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GWU says student anti-Israel graduation speech not the one submitted, rehearsed, launches probe
“I am ashamed to know my tuition is being used to fund this genocide,” Cecilia Culver said in her speech.