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Iowa university websites accumulate dead links as they scrub DEI content
Friday, March 7th, 2025
via The Gazette (Iowa)'I am directing the institutions to pull down any current or archived web pages regarding diversity, equity, and/or inclusion,' regents President Sherry Bates said in a statement last month following continued criticism from Republican lawmakers upset with any evidence of diversity, equity and inclusion work across the public universities.
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VMI’s first Black superintendent says ouster is based on politics, not job performance
Friday, March 7th, 2025
via The Associated Press (Washington)The first Black superintendent of the Virginia Military Institute says his forced departure is the result of politics rather than his job performance.
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VMI superintendent accuses board of bias in his ouster
Friday, March 7th, 2025
via The Daily Progress (Virginia)VMI Superintendent Cedric Wins says he was ousted from the job because of bias. A former Virginia governor put it more bluntly: "It is about racism."
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With $90M on the line, Anne Arundel school leaders take cautious approach to Trump mandates
Friday, March 7th, 2025
via The Baltimore Banner (Maryland)Anne Arundel County Public Schools leaders struck a cautious tone this week while speaking about the potential impacts of President Donald Trump's education and immigration mandates, including threats…
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California sues Trump administration over cuts to teacher training grants
Friday, March 7th, 2025
via The Mercury News (California)'Sadly, the people Trump's hurting most of all are our kids,' Attorney General Rob Bonta says.
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California sues Trump administration for cutting teacher training over ‘illegal DEI’
Friday, March 7th, 2025
via Los Angeles Times (California)California sues the Trump administration after it cut teacher trainings it called 'divisive' for involving topics such as diversity, equity and inclusion.
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Trump’s long purge: The president is trying to undo the four years he was gone
Friday, March 7th, 2025
via Washington Examiner (District of Columbia)As the end of the first month of President Donald Trump's second term approached, the New York Times sounded an alarm: He has, America's paper of record breathlessly intoned, 'carried out a campaign of retribution that has little analogue in history.' Trump did indeed swear to be 'retribution.' But that is too small a word to capture the magnitude Donald Trump worked to erase Joe Biden's presidency in his first month back in the White House.
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West Virginia Senate Judiciary Committee forwards Morrisey’s DEI ban
Friday, March 7th, 2025
via Parkersburg News and Sentinel (West Virginia)CHARLESTON — Gov. Patrick Morrisey's bill to ban concepts in state government and academia connected to diversity, equity and inclusion received the approval of the state Senate Judiciary Committee…
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Education Department faces uncertain future — even with a new Trump-appointed chief
Thursday, March 6th, 2025
via Deseret News (Utah)President Trump has said he wants newly confirmed education chief Linda McMahon to "put herself out of a job".
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‘Digital content refresh’: Hill AFB removes posts about DEI
Thursday, March 6th, 2025
via KSL NewsRadio (Utah)Hill Air Force Base complied with the federal government's calls to remove digital content relating to diversity, equity and inclusion.
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Senators move to ban diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives from West Virginia government
Thursday, March 6th, 2025
via WV MetroNews (West Virginia)Senators debate whether state's minority affairs office would be affected and whether legislation requires neutral position on 'antiracism.'
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Trump slashed teacher training, citing DEI. Educators say the grants fought staff shortages
Thursday, March 6th, 2025
via The Associated Press (South Carolina)In an overhaul of an agency President Donald Trump has described as being infiltrated by 'radicals, zealots and Marxists,' the Education Department cut $600 million in grants to teacher training programs, which it characterized as supporting divisive ideologies.
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Va. education department still has not released all history teaching materials
Thursday, March 6th, 2025
via Richmond Times-Dispatch (Virginia)The state education department says it is "continuing the review of the instructional guides to ensure compliance with recent federal executive actions and will release at the completion of that
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Trump wants to dismantle the Education Department. Here’s what it does
Thursday, March 6th, 2025
via The Associated Press (Florida)President Donald Trump has said he wants his new education chief, Linda McMahon, to 'put herself out of a job' and close the Education Department.
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In response to national challenges, Rochester Public Schools superintendent defends district’s approach
Thursday, March 6th, 2025
via Post Bulletin (Minnesota)'We have not been ideologically driven on either side of the equation,' RPS Superintendent Kent Pekel said. 'We have been about the academic success of kids.'
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Indiana National Guard deletes posts celebrating Black history and women due to federal order
Thursday, March 6th, 2025
via The Indianapolis Star (Indiana)The Indiana National Guard says it's complying with an order from the Trump administration to cease DEI efforts.
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Clyburn, Moulton Reintroduce Legislation To Provide Black WWII Veterans And Their Descendants With Long Overdue G.I. Bill Benefits
Wednesday, March 5th, 2025
via The Post and Courier (South Carolina)WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congressmen James E. Clyburn (SC-06) and Seth Moulton (MA-06) introduced the Sgt. Issac Woodard, Jr. and Sgt. Joseph H. Maddox G.I. Bill Restoration Act. President Franklin D.
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How some of Maryland’s congressional delegation reacted to Trump’s speech
Wednesday, March 5th, 2025
via The Baltimore Banner (Maryland)Democratic members of Maryland's majority-blue federal delegation silently protested, rejected or outright skipped President Donald Trump's remarks Tuesday.
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House bill eliminating DEI funding heard in Senate
Wednesday, March 5th, 2025
via News Tribune (Missouri)The Senate Committee on Government Efficiency heard a bill Monday that would ban state funding for diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives.
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