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Education
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Teachers joined the protest in Nashville. Here’s what they want.
As Republican lawmakers voted to expel two Black colleagues and to add armed guards to schools, protesters inside and outside the building demanded different action.
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Florida bill would bring bans on gender studies and critical race theory to colleges and universities
House Bill 999 would prohibit students from majoring or minoring in certain disciplines, and could pose a risk to Black sororities and fraternities, Latinx groups, affinity groups or even veterans’ organizations.
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Nashville shooting suspect’s gender sets attack apart from most mass shootings
Several conservative and far-right media figures are using the shooter’s reported transgender identity to shift the conversation away from gun control.
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Meg Cabot talks book bans, the rise of YA and 'The Quarantine Princess Diaries'
Eight years after the last Princess Diaries book, the author is again showing her longtime readers how they might navigate adulthood, power and responsibility, all while lurching from one crisis to the next.
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‘Enough is enough’: L.A. school district workers demand historic raise during three-day strike
Teachers in the nation’s second-largest school district joined bus drivers, cafeteria workers and paraprofessionals in a “sympathy strike,” resulting in over 65,000 personnel absences and bringing classes to a halt.
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Sen. Bernie Sanders proposes guaranteed minimum teacher salary of $60,000 nationwide
The Pay Teachers Act aims to address staffing shortages while recruiting and retaining teachers — many of whom are historically underpaid.
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Los Angeles schools allow students to carry Narcan after series of teen opioid overdoses
Experts say that the nation’s second-largest school system could influence districts across the country to adopt similar interventions, putting public schools on the frontlines of the fight against drug misuse.
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This women-led nonprofit wants Los Angeles to recognize and prioritize its Indigenous population
Cofounders Odilia Romero and Janet Martinez, mother and daughter, have been recognized by Lizzo and MALDEF for their work celebrating Indigenous cultures and languages.
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New museum on American women’s history is about more than documenting ‘the firsts’
The Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum aims to address holes in representation of women’s lives, work and stories, which are often overlooked in museums and social studies textbooks.