🌎 Discussion: Education

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PBS To Shutter Diversity, Equity And Inclusion Office Following Donald Trump’s Executive Orders

The office was created to boost representation of underserved communities.

deadline.com

 

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Evangelical education nearly ruined me. Now the Christian right is coming for public schools

From Bible stories to the Ten Commandments, public schools are starting to look a lot like the fundamentalist system I escaped

www.theguardian.com

 

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Texas may allow families to pay for private schools with public funds

School voucher bill likely to benefit wealthier families, allowing $10,000 of taxpayer dollars per student per year

www.theguardian.com

 

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Pentagon schools suspend library books for ‘compliance review’ under Trump orders

Revealed: defense department sends memo that it’s reviewing for books ‘related to gender … or discriminatory equity ideology topics’

www.theguardian.com

 

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Education Department Contracts Axed Across the Country Without Reason as DOGE Barrels On: 'We're Completely Crippled'

The Trump administration canceled between 89 to 169 government contracts funding research that helped experts refine the U.S. education system.

www.ibtimes.com

 

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Three staffers at Texas school arrested amid child grooming and sex abuse probe

Two of the educators were fired, and the third resigned amid the investigation

www.independent.co.uk

 

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Three staffers at Texas school arrested amid child grooming and sex abuse probe

Two of the educators were fired, and the third resigned amid the investigation

www.independent.co.uk

How are they not all in jail????

 

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Kindergarteners could learn gun safety in school under a bill gaining momentum in Utah

Utah students as early as kindergarten would be required to learn about firearm safety in the classroom under a bill that passed the state House.

apnews.com

 

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SCOTUS could make it even harder to sue for disability discrimination

The court will decide if students need to prove bad faith—which is notoriously hard.

www.motherjones.com

 

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Kindergarteners could learn gun safety in school under a bill gaining momentum in Utah

Utah students as early as kindergarten would be required to learn about firearm safety in the classroom under a bill that passed the state House.

apnews.com

Because that's not traumatizing or anything.....

 

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The whitewashing of History so we can make the same mistakes all over again.

 

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Lame.

 

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A ‘great shock’: Julianne Moore’s children’s book under review by Trump administration

The actor’s book Freckleface Strawberry is on a list of library books suspended for a ‘compliance review’ after a presidential executive order

www.theguardian.com

 

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Trump and Musk want people to think college is not worth it. They are wrong | Carlo Invernizzi-Accetti

For many, going to college is the very definition of the American dream. Relieved from familial burdens and toil work: it is a brief and precious period of freedom

www.theguardian.com

 

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Oklahoma lawmaker doesn’t want ‘pink-haired atheists’ teaching the Bible in schools

‘I don't want some pink-haired person who doesn't believe in God to start trying to teach the Bible,’ says Republican state Senator David Bullard

www.independent.co.uk

 

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Dolly Parton's child literacy program faces funding danger in Indiana

Dolly Parton's child literacy program faces funding danger in Indiana

www.avclub.com