Betsy DeVos Has Scrapped More Than 1,200 Civil Rights Probes Started By the Obama Administration
Tom Williams/Congressional Quarterly/Newscom/ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by ProPublica. Whether schoolchildren in DeSoto County, Mississippi, are paddled varies by their race. Black students are almost two and a half times more likely than whites to endure the corporal punishment permitted under school district policy…
School Officials Tried to Stop Her From Talking About Sexual Assault. She Wouldn’t be Silenced.
Lulabel Seitz after her microphone was shut off.Erik Castro/The Press Democrat/AP No, Lulabel Seitz would not shut up. The first in her family to graduate high school, the Petaluma, Calif., senior wouldn’t let school administrators stop her from publicly talking about sexual assault at school. “Let her speak!” her classmates shouted when her mic was cut,…
Betsy DeVos Says School Safety Commission Won’t Study the Role of Guns in School Safety
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos pauses as she testifies during a Senate Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations hearing to review the Fiscal Year 2019 funding request. Carolyn Kaster/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos continued her streak of groan–inducing trips to Capitol…
The Kentucky House Majority Leader Wrote a Bill to Cut Teachers’ Pensions. A Teacher Just Beat Him at the Polls.
Travis Brenda, a teacher at Rockcastle County High School, defeated Jonathan Shell in a state House Republican primary on Tuesday. Wade Payne/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. When Kentucky passed a plan this spring that threatened the pensions of its future educators, thousands of teachers rallied outside the statehouse in…
Ali Wong Stuck With the Major Your Mom Told You to Drop and Here She Is Today
Ali Wong performing at Toronto’s Winter Garden theater.Ken Woroner/Netflix Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. “It was not supposed to go down like this,” comedian Ali Wong says toward the end of her latest Netflix special, Hard Knock Wife, which premiered this past weekend. Her husband works as vice president of…
Chance the Rapper’s Commencement Speech Is Exactly What We Needed This Weekend
Fair Dillard/YouTube Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Chance the Rapper had a lasting message to the graduates of Dillard University: Surpass your heroes and achieve greatness, just like Beyoncé did at Coachella. On Saturday, Chance took time during his 22-minute speech to praise the lessons learned from Beyoncé’s legendary performance…