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Caltech student’s invention lands her STEM competition gold – and a trip to Milan Olympics
1+ hour, 18+ min ago (696+ words) Danielle Yang, 19, a first-year student at Caltech in Pasadena, can list all the times wearing hearing aids and playing sports were not compatible. They would stop working when she got whacked in the head with a lacrosse stick. Or when…...
Kentucky Supreme Court rules that charter schools law is unconstitutional
8+ hour, 54+ min ago (272+ words) The 2022 measure was enacted by the state's Republican-dominated legislature over Democrat Gov. Andy Beshear's veto. It was struck down the next year by a lower court. The state's high court ruled the "Constitution as it stands is clear that it…...
White House pressure leads universities to cut ties with nonprofit that helps racial minorities
10+ hour ago (601+ words) By JOCELYN GECKER and COLLIN BINKLEY, Associated Press The Trump administration said Thursday its campaign to end diversity programs in higher education has led dozens of universities to cut ties with an organization known as The PhD Project, which helps…...
ACA 7 injects race in public schools with a government blessing
16+ hour, 52+ min ago (256+ words) If passed, it would legally permit race to be used as a factor in decisions about gifted and talented programs, financial aid distribution, charter school admissions, teacher training and hiring, classroom instruction methods, and countless other areas of public schooling'all…...
DOJ is seeking to join lawsuit alleging LAUSD bias against white students
23+ hour, 21+ min ago (411+ words) The US Department of Justice moved Wednesday to intervene in a federal lawsuit alleging that the Los Angeles Unified School District discriminates against white students through its decades-old Predominantly Hispanic, Black, Asian, or Other Non-Anglo (PHBAO) desegregation program. The policy…...
Transportation Department says more than 550 driving schools should close over safety failures
1+ day, 11+ hour ago (347+ words) By JOSH FUNK, Associated Press More than 550 commercial driving schools in the U.S. that train truckers and bus drivers must close after investigators found they employed unqualified instructors, failed to adequately test students and had other safety issues, the federal Transportation…...
California’s expanded, free pre-K means some private day cares will close
2+ day, 7+ hour ago (1622+ words) By Jeanne Kuang | CalMatters There were once so many children at Frisha Moore's Elk Grove preschool that families filled up the waitlist. Now, one of her playgrounds and two classrooms sit empty because one key group of kids has stopped…...
Some US schools cancel class pictures after online claims surrounding Epstein
6+ day, 1+ hour ago (388+ words) By JOHN HANNA and KENDRIA LAFLEUR Black led the company in 2019, when funds managed by Apollo bought Lifetouch's parent company, Shutterfly. The $2.7 billion deal closed in September 2019 " a month after Epstein's death by suicide behind bars as he awaited trial…...
AQMD OKs $30 million to purchase zero-emission school buses to replace older, polluting models
1+ week, 2+ day ago (268+ words) South Coast Air Quality Management District governors have approved $30 million to help communities disproportionately impacted by air pollution replace older school buses with new, zero-emission models, the agency announced today. The initiative is expected to significantly reduce air pollution, including…...
US applications for jobless benefits jump by 22,000 to 231,000 last week, the most in 2 months
2+ week, 17+ hour ago (572+ words) Applications for jobless aid for the week ending Jan. 31 rose by 22,000 to 231,000 from the previous week, the Labor Department reported Thursday. That's significantly more than the 211,000 new applications that analysts surveyed by the data firm FactSet had forecast. Applications for…...