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Chicago Public Schools Wants $5M For New Furniture As Part Of Move
Source: Lauren Fitzpatrick / Chicago Sun-Times In the wake of massive school closings and budget woes, Chicago Public Schools is seeking to double its furniture budget to $9.5 million, chalking up $5...
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Indiana Drops Common Core Education Standards
Source: Denver Nicks / TIME Magazine Indiana Gov. Mike Pence signed legislation Monday making his the first state to withdraw from national Common Core education standards that have become a lightning...
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Study: NY Schools Most Segregated In The US, Labeling Some ‘Apartheid Schools’
Source: Lilly Workneh / theGrio Minorities are likely to become the majority population in America in less than three decades – and yet, with this soon-to-be expected reality, schools in America still...
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Kindergartner Killed By Bus As He Ran To His Mother After School
Source: CBS News MODESTO, Calif. - A 5-year-old boy was struck and killed by a Modesto city bus this week as he ran to his mother after school, according to CBS Sacramento. The kindergartner was...
View ArticleNY High School Student Is Accepted At All Eight Ivy League Schools
Source: Tim O’Connor / New York Daily News Kwasi Enin, a 17-year-old senior at William Floyd High School in Mastic, has been accepted into each of the eight elite Ivy colleges and universities. “By...
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NCAA Approves Unlimited Meals And Snacks For Division I Student-Athletes
Source: Tyler Conway / Bleacher Report No Division I college athlete should ever go to bed “starving” again. Following a meeting of its Legislative Council on Tuesday, the NCAA announced the removal of...
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Harvard University Admits Highest Number Of Black Students In School’s History
Source: Jessica Dickerson / The Huffington Post There was a time when black students were not allowed to attend Ivy Leagues universities. This year, Harvard University proved just how far they’ve come...
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NY High School Students Suspended Indefinitely For Displaying Confederate Flag
Source: CBS New York SOUTH HUNTINGTON, N.Y. – Two Long Island high school students have been suspended for allegedly bringing a Confederate flag to school. Brother Gary Cregan, principal of St....
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Does Traditional College Debate Reinforce White Privilege?
Source: Jessica Carew Kraft / The Atlantic It used to be that if you went to a college-level debate tournament, the students you’d see would be bookish future lawyers from elite universities, most of...
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Ohio Teacher Fired After Telling Student ‘We Don’t Need Another Black President’
Source: Michael D. Clark / Cincinnati.com The Fairfield, Ohio teacher accused of slurring an African -American student lost his job Thursday in the wake of a labor hearing that concluded with that...
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Removing Chocolate Milk From Schools Caused Plain Milk To Be Wasted
Source: Mary MacVean / Chicago Tribune Removing chocolate milk from school cafeterias has been promoted over the last few years as a way to reduce the sugar kids consume and decried as a sure way to...
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4th Graders Caught Dealing Pot At Colorado Elementary School
Source: AP / CBS News GREELEY, Colo. - School officials in northern Colorado are asking parents to be careful with their newly legal recreational marijuana, after fourth-graders were caught dealing the...
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Chicago To Name High School After President Obama
Source: AP / theGrio CHICAGO — President Barack Obama’s hometown of Chicago plans to name a high school after him. Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Thursday announced plans to build Barack Obama College...
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Michelle Obama Reschedules Visit To Kansas School After Protests
Source: AP / New York Daily News Michelle Obama is rearranging plans for a speech before graduating high school seniors in Kansas in the face of protests that her appearance at a combined graduation...
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Girl, 16, Fatally Stabbed On Day Of Prom At Connecticut High School
Source: CBS News MILFORD, Conn. – Just hours before her junior prom, a 16-year-old girl was stabbed to death inside a Connecticut high school Friday morning. Police said that a 16-year-old boy has been...
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Condoleezza Rice Backs Out Of Commencement After Protests
Source: AP / CBS News NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. – Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has backed out of delivering the commencement address at Rutgers University following protests by some faculty and...
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Feds To Schools: You Must Accept Children Of Undocumented Immigrants
Source: Rebecca Kaplan / CBS News The Justice and Education Departments are teaming up to remind public schools that they are required to provide all children with equal access to education at the...
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Florida Girl Graduating From High School And College In Same Week
Source: CBS News MIAMI – A 16-year-old South Florida girl has double reason to celebrate: She’s collecting diplomas from both high school and college within the space of one week. In an unusual twist,...
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Study Shows Direct Correlation Between High School Dropouts And Prison
Source: Adam Wells / theGrio There is a startling report this month that examines the correlation between black males, high school diplomas and the possibility of being imprisoned. According to a study...
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WATCH! Sean Combs’ 2014 Howard University Commencement Speech
Sean Combs’ 2014 Howard University Commencement Speech
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