Northwestern University students join wave of nationwide campus protests for Palestine
The university found student protestors in violation of a school policy on Thursday — one Northwestern officials only enacted that morning.
NEW ORLEANS — A federal court in New Orleans denied a parish school board’s request to dismiss a lawsuit alleging that three suburban school employees used physical violence on a blind, autistic 12-year-old student in separate incidences on the same day. The child’s family’s claims are supported by video and witness testimony. According to the parents, the school board posits that “kicking, hitting, and slamming a child’s head into a table somehow does not constitute battery.”
The university found student protestors in violation of a school policy on Thursday — one Northwestern officials only enacted that morning.
Under the terms of the settlement, the for-profit University of Phoenix and its parent company would pay $4.5 million and take responsibility for unlawfully soliciting service members on military sites.
North Carolina's Democrat governor is pushing for legislators to pause Republican-led private school vouchers and focus funding on public education and child care stabilization.
The Arab Student Union at Jackson-Reed High School in Washington has been effectively barred from hosting pro-Palestinian events on campus, forcing the group to host an event at a local restaurant instead.
Ultra-right libertarian President Javier Milei's steep budget cuts led public university officials to predict they can only keep operating for two or three more months.
The new grant program gives state funds to families with qualifying children in low-performing schools to use for private or home schooling.
More than 4,200 works in school and public libraries were targeted in 2023, a jump from the old record of nearly 2,600 books in 2022.
CHICAGO — A federal court in Illinois partially granted a former high school student’s motion to certify a class of all students who participated in Chicago Public Schools’ “Quiet Time program” between 2015 and 2019. The student has sufficiently alleged that the program was presented as being secular, but featured “hidden” Hindu religious elements, such as chanting Sanskrit mantras that honored Hindu deities and were not “meaningless,” as the student was told.
Women’s participation in the workforce has recovered from the pandemic. But that masks a lingering crisis among women who lack a college degree.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A state court in California denied a petition filed by Protect Kids California, which sought to change the title and summary of a proposed ballot measure that would change various regulatory provisions that govern trans children in educational and medical contexts.