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What bills are moving at the Iowa legislature this year?

Monday, March 10th, 2025

via Globe Gazette (Iowa)

Session's first deadline winnows bills that won't advance.

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St. Louis teacher training program slashed in Trump administration’s education cuts

Monday, March 10th, 2025

via St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Illinois)

Rising Teachers at SLU pays for school staff to earn degrees and teacher certificates while working in high-need districts across St. Louis.

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What bills still are moving at the Iowa Legislature this year?

Monday, March 10th, 2025

via Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier (Iowa)

Session's first deadline winnows bills that won't advance.

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Virginia Education Department still hasn’t released all history teaching materials

Sunday, March 9th, 2025

via The Daily Progress (Virginia)

Virginia's Education Department was supposed to release new history teaching standards last week. There's still no sign of them.

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Two San Diego women talk about their path to success after leaving the criminal justice system

Sunday, March 9th, 2025

via The San Diego Union-Tribune (California)

One woman was tutoring other former inmates in a post-prison program, helping them get better grades when a staff member urged her into another program that would help her with her own education. A…

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DEI bans, Medicaid work requirements: Which bills are alive after Iowa’s 1st ‘funnel’ week?

Sunday, March 9th, 2025

via The Des Moines Register (Iowa)

High-profile Republican priorities are advancing after the Iowa Legislature's first

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Iowa lawmakers introduced 1,500+ bills this session. Which survived the ‘funnel’ deadline?

Sunday, March 9th, 2025

via The Ames Tribune (Iowa)

High-profile Republican priorities are advancing after the Iowa Legislature's first

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D.C.’s Black Lives Matter mural will be erased. Look back at the iconic street painting

Saturday, March 8th, 2025

via Georgia Public Broadcasting (Georgia)

Over the past five years, Washington, D.C.'s iconic Black Lives Matter street painting has served as a powerful symbol of activism and a gathering place for joy and resistance.

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What bills still are moving at the Iowa Capitol this year?

Saturday, March 8th, 2025

via The Gazette (Iowa)

State lawmakers hit the 2025 session's first 'funnel' deadline, which revokes the eligibility of bills that did not reach a certain approval threshold.

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Shelli Boggs appeals school grant axed in Trump anti-DEI cuts

Saturday, March 8th, 2025

via The Arizona Republic (Arizona)

The Maricopa County School Superintendent's Office received a three-year, $11.2 million grant in 2023 to fund 20 full-time positions in 15 schools.

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Complete results from Day 2 of the PIAA Class 2A Wrestling Championships

Friday, March 7th, 2025

via PennLive (Pennsylvania)

The finals are set after Day 2 of the PIAA 2A Wrestling Championships in Hershey

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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…

Racism, School Board – General

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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