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Education
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The 19th Explains: Can Trump eliminate the Department of Education?
The president can’t eliminate a federal agency with an executive order lawfully. But he can undermine its functions and redistribute duties.
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Girls are losing out in Hawai'i's push to train kids for high-paying jobs
Career-based education has rapidly gained traction in Hawai'i schools, but not all programs are attracting boys and girls equally.
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‘Find your allies’: Trans advocates offer guidance on how to support kids in schools
Vanessa Ford and Rebecca Kling, authors of “The Advocate Educator,” have been inundated with questions from parents, teachers and students about navigating a rapidly changing landscape.
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A school district's plan for rising rent and stagnant salaries: Teacher housing
In an effort to retain its educators in North Carolina’s most expensive city, Charlotte schools are planning on building housing and offering below market-rate rentals.
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Education rules from 2020 are returning to 'protect women.' Are vulnerable students at risk?
Critics of Trump's education department view the dismissal of Biden's Title IX rewrite as yet another anti-trans attack.
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Trump's education department says book bans are a ‘hoax.’ Teachers disagree.
In South Carolina and nationally, the push against censorship continues under a Trump administration that denies reading restrictions are happening.
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‘Patriotic education’: Trump orders federal push to monitor K-12 curriculum
Former Education Department staff describe the move as unprecedented interference into the country’s education system.
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Poet and activist Nikki Giovanni dies at 81
She was a key figure of the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s who championed women’s power in civil rights activism — and their own lives.
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His controversial school board policies made national headlines. He was just elected again.
After losing a recall election in June, controversial former Temecula, California, school board president Joseph Komrosky will represent the district once again.
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California banned bilingual education for almost 20 years. It still hasn’t recovered.
The nation’s most linguistically diverse state has a tortured history with bilingual education in public schools. The Education Department can’t — and the Legislature won’t — do what it takes to repair the damage.