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Education
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Parental rights bills have been introduced in most states. Teachers are pushing back.
Educators say legislation about what they teach and how mislead families and undermine public education. They’ve notched victories in multiple states, including red ones.
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Republicans see schools as 2022 political battleground
From exhausted ‘COVID moms’ to furor over critical race theory, the GOP sees schools as a way to both energize their base and pick up frustrated swing voters.
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Adjunct professors, the ‘backbone’ of higher education, push for better wages and benefits
Part-time professors, more likely to be women and people of color, are a permanent underclass in academia, they said.
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There’s a push to get more electric school buses on the streets — moms are driving it
They just got a boost from Vice President Kamala Harris, after she announced the EPA would distribute $17 million to convert diesel school buses to electric and low emission buses.
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Minneapolis teacher strike is part of a wider labor struggle for educators around the country
Between pay gaps, the pandemic, growing class sizes and legislative directives, “the pressure on teachers right now is so formidable,” one expert said.
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The 19th Explains: Colleges are dropping the SAT in admissions. That’s a good thing for most girls.
Evidence of a gender gap has existed for decades. Now, an increasing number of schools are making the SAT optional for admission.
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Texas schools must now teach students how to spot abuse — if their parents allow
A teenager’s family missed the warning signs of abuse before she was killed. Texas schools hope to prevent similar tragedies.
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She says her school kicked her out for being trans. She wants the rules to change.
Kalie Hargrove has a Title IX complaint against Lincoln Christian University — plus joined a class-action suit challenging a loophole that lets religious schools be exempted from rules that ban discrimination.
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More states want to restrict how LGBTQ+ people, issues are discussed in schools
At least seven state legislatures are discussing whether to regulate how textbooks, teachers and school curriculums talk about gender and sexualities.
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More Black women are leading U.S. law schools and changing the conversation on race and gender
A rising cohort of new leaders want to help their institutions better understand the country’s history and how it inextricably shapes the law today.