“Diversity is a superpower here in New York City,” said NYC Public Schools Chancellor Melissa Aviles-Ramos. New York state leaders have rejected the Trump administration’s directive to dismantle diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts in public schools, stating they will uphold these programs even if it risks the loss of federal education funding. “Diversity is...
Trump’s attacks on universities are “dangerous and politically motivated,” said New York Democratic Rep. Jerry Nadler. The White House announced Thursday that the Trump administration plans to withhold $510 million in federal funding from Brown University while it investigates the school’s response to alleged “antisemitism”— a term that is being weaponized to target protesters against...
The Trump administration’s threat comes as many school districts are preparing their budgets for the next school year. This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. The U.S. Department of Education is giving state education agencies 10 days to certify that their schools do not engage in any practices...
“The court’s decision today should send a strong message to any and all anti-abortion politicians,” an attorney said. A federal court has ruled that Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall and district attorneys cannot take legal action against people who help pregnant Alabamians access abortion care in states where it remains legal. The court determined that...
Australia will head to the polls for a federal election on 3 May. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, whose Labor Party will be defending a three-seat majority, announced the date after visiting the Governor General in the capital, Canberra, on Friday. Opinion polls predict a slim margin between the country’s two major parties, and the possibility...
Treatment for those struggling with opioid addiction in the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) is about to get a lot worse, warn a former BOP case manager and a medical professional who recently left the agency. The BOP directed staff about a month ago to require all participants in medication-assisted treatment (MAT) programs to switch...
This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. Every Friday, as he’s done for the last year and a half, Mark Broyles hops in his truck and drives 20 minutes from his home in Big Stone Gap to Duffield, Virginia, to pick up two boxes of free food. Though...
Washington, D.C. — A federal judge in California ordered the Trump administration to immediately reinstate thousands of jobs for probationary federal workers fired as part of billionaire Elon Musk’s campaign to slash the federal workforce. Judge William Alsup ruled Thursday morning that tens of thousands of workers must be rehired across numerous federal agencies, including...
Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office on Wednesday, President Donald Trump expressed little remorse over his administration’s firing of thousands of government workers through Elon Musk’s so-called “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE), baselessly suggesting that the people who have been fired thus far were incompetent at their jobs. Trump offered no evidence to back...