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The brutal story behind California’s new Native American genocide education law

Oct. 10, 2024 17:19 PM EDT

In the 1860s, an armed militia swept into the historic land of the Serrano people in the San Bernardino mountains and went on a killing spree, attempting to slaughter the entire tribe. A tribal leader named Santos Manuel led the surviving 30 members to safety in a nearby valley. Now,...

Biden's student loan cancellation is put on hold again after day of legal whiplash

Oct. 04, 2024 09:27 AM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge in Missouri put a temporary hold on President Joe Biden's latest student loan cancellation plan on Thursday, slamming the door on hope it would move forward after another judge allowed a pause to expire. Just as it briefly appeared the Biden...

UC says federal law prevents it from hiring undocumented students. A lawsuit seeks to change that

Oct. 02, 2024 12:23 PM EDT

Members of the coalition that’s been pushing to get the University of California to hire its undocumented students for campus jobs are now suing the university system, days after Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill that would have made such employment a reality. The suit, filed Tuesday...

Disney trips meant for homeless students went to NYC school employees' kids, officials say

Sep. 16, 2024 16:43 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Six employees of New York City's public school system took their children or grandchildren on trips to Disney World, New Orleans and other locations using tickets that were meant for homeless students, investigators said in a newly released report. The trips...

Measure to repeal Nebraska’s private school funding law should appear on the ballot, court rules

Sep. 13, 2024 13:52 PM EDT

A ballot measure seeking to repeal a new conservative-backed law that provides taxpayer money for private school tuition should appear on the state's November ballot, the state Supreme Court ruled Friday. The court found that the ballot measure does not illegally target a government...

Court won't allow public money to be spent on private schools in South Carolina

Sep. 11, 2024 17:16 PM EDT

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina's law allowing parents to spend taxpayer money on private schools violates the constitution, the state's highest court ruled Wednesday. The 3-2 ruling prohibits paying tuition or fees with “Education Scholarship Trust Funds," but it does...

Ohio is sending troopers and $2.5 million to a city that has seen an influx of Haitian migrants

Sep. 10, 2024 23:49 PM EDT

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The governor of Ohio will send law enforcement and millions of dollars in healthcare resources to the city of Springfield as it faces a surge in temporary Haitian migrants that has landed it in the national spotlight. Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine said...

Nebraska's top election official might try to remove a ballot measure to repeal school funding law

Sep. 10, 2024 19:57 PM EDT

The Nebraska Supreme Court appears set to decide if voters get to determine whether to reject a new law pushed through largely by Republican lawmakers to provide taxpayer money for private school tuition. But depending on how they rule, the Nebraska Secretary of State could unilaterally deprive...

A measure to repeal a private school tuition funding law in Nebraska will make the November ballot

Aug. 30, 2024 18:00 PM EDT

Public school advocates have collected enough signatures to ask voters to repeal a new law that uses taxpayer money to fund private school tuition., according to Nebraska’s top election official. Organizers of Support Our Schools announced in July that they had gathered more than...

Botched college financial aid form snarls students' enrollment plans

Aug. 29, 2024 15:33 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — After a long summer of technical glitches, most of America's prospective college students finally applied for federal financial aid — an annual process upended by a redesign-gone-bad. The number of high school seniors who have completed their Free Application...