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Leah Chase School opens in NOLa. marking return to direct-run schools
By John Gray Contributing Writer (VeriteNews.org) — The Leah Chase School opened its doors on Tuesday (Aug. 6) as New Orleans’ first permanent, direct-run public
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HBCU med schools are gifted $600M
By Stacy M. Brown Contributing Writer (NNPA Newswire) — In a monumental move to address the underrepresentation of Black physicians in the United States, Bloomberg
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By Stacy M. Brown Contributing Writer (NNPA Newswire) — On Thursday, July 18, the Biden administration announced the forgiveness of $1.2 billion in student debt for 35,000 public service workers, including teachers, ... School vouchers were supposed to save taxpayer money. Instead they blew a massive hole in Arizona’s budget.
By Eli Hager ProPublica In 2022, Arizona pioneered the largest school voucher program in the history of education. Under a new law, any parent in the state, no matter how affluent, could ... Parents seek injunction to block Ten Commandments displays during lawsuit
(lailluminator.com) — As promised, the Louisiana parents challenging the legality of required Ten Commandments displays in K-12 and college classrooms formally asked a judge on Monday, July 8 to stop ... The pandemic set younger kids back. Their struggle to recover is especially acute, data show
By Kalyn Belsha Contributing Writer (Special from Chalkbeat via lailluminator.com) — While older children are showing encouraging signs of academic recovery, younger children are not making that same progress, and are sometimes ... Non-tenured Tulane faculty vote to unionize
By Piper Hutchinson Contributing Writer (lailluminator.com) — A group of non-tenured faculty at Tulane University in New Orleans has voted to form a union. Howard University revokes Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ honorary degree
By Stacy M. Brown Contributing Writer (NNPA Newswire) — Just days after Howard University announced it would revoke the honorary degree awarded to Sean “Diddy” Combs in 2014, additional details have emerged ... Biden-Harris administration propels HBCUs with record $16B investment
By Stacy M. Brown Contributing Writer (NNPA Newswire) — The Biden-Harris administration has announced a historic milestone in federal funding and investments for historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), surpassing a monumental ... More students could have access to tutoring vouchers
By Allison Allsop Contributing Writer (lailluminator.com) — Louisiana lawmakers advanced a bill on Wednesday (May 15) of last week, that would expand a voucher program for students not meeting state math and ...
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