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The Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights, which is supposed to protect students from discrimination based on race, ethnicity, sex, age and disability status, isn’t what…

After nearly doubling during the pandemic, the rates of chronic absenteeism in K-12 schools are finally showing steady signs of improvement. A student is considered chronically…

Twenty-one state attorneys general and the AG of Washington, D.C., filed briefs in support of lawsuits challenging the cancellation of TRIO grants for programs such as…

At least 11 states and two territories are capitulating to a recent demand from the Trump administration to strip references to gender identity and the existence…

Against Illinois governor JB Pritzker’s objections, Donald Trump’s Pentagon has ordered hundreds of national guard troops to join his regime’s assault on Chicago communities. Trump subsequently…

Alessandra Fabrello (left) cares for her son Ysadore Maklakoff. North Carolina Medicaid cuts that went into affect Oct. 1 mean Fabrello will have a pay cut…

Trump is all about political theatre, or circus, and it often seems that even in resisting him, as decent citizens must do, we become part of…

Vice President JD Vance speaks at the White House press briefing on the day the government shutdown. Vance is among the Republicans arguing there’s plenty of…

This isn’t unique to my state, but it’s my first time encountering it. Pennsylvania’s state government runs on a July-to-June fiscal year, which means that it…

Seven US states and the nation’s largest city announced this week that they have formed the Northeast Public Health Collaborative, in an effort to strengthen the…