Education
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School choice Yass Prize awards continue, $20M worth of grants awarded nationwide
A deadline for a $1 million Yass Prize school choice award is approaching June 1.
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Harvard College faculty votes in favor of capping percentage of A's to address grade inflation
A report found that A grades accounted for 40% of all grades in 2015, up from 24% in 2005.
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Pop star Pitbull partners with AI company to create civics lessons taught by Founding Fathers
With civics education at startlingly low levels, this partnership brings the Founding Fathers and other historical figures to life through AI.
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600 private schools apply for new Texas school choice program in 10 days
The program, which becomes effective in the 2026–27 school year, provides taxpayer-funded ESA grants of $10,000 to roughly 100,000 students through a pilot program created by the new law.
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Brown University places police chief on leave in aftermath of shooting
The Trump administration opened its probe earlier Monday and Paxson said Brown will commission its own review of campus safety and the response to the Dec. 13 shooting, which killed two students.
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Trump administration announces investigation into Brown University over campus shooting
The department highlighted allegations that the university's campus surveillance and security system were not up-to-date at the time of the shooting, and that its emergency notifications about the active shooter were delayed.
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Record school spending across U.S. fails to reverse decline in test scores
New stats raise concern over how effectively taxpayer dollars are being used in public schools.
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San Diego school district teaches young kids 28 sexual orientations, 9 gender identities: report
Resources taken from LGBTQ activist groups such as The Trevor Project, which tells kids about orientations such as "aeogosexual" and "queer demisexual."
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UC Berkeley, Pomona College settle discrimination cases with Jewish professor, students
“I respect and appreciate Dr. Nativ’s decision to settle this case,” UC Berkeley Chancellor Rich Lyons said
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Anti-white language tweaked after civil rights complaints against Harvard, WA school district
Scholarship for "students of color" changed to "historically marginalized communities" hours after news report. "Educators of Color" re-upped a year after legal warning, says open to all but allegedly hidden from nonwhites.
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Tennessee county school board opposes immigration checks for public schools
Knox County Board of Education argued public schools exist to educate all children.
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Florida tests drones in schools to stop shootings
The Florida Legislature approved $557,000 to fund the pilot program in Broward, Leon and Volusia school districts.
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West Virginia Board of Education reinstates school vaccine policy excluding religious exemptions
The state's education board said that it "is reinstating its directive to county boards of education not to accept religious exemptions to compulsory vaccination laws"