Florida’s Billionaires Want More Private Schools. So They’re Building Their Own.
New schools founded by the financial elite feature flight simulators and sailboats, while serving up organic Thai food. Source link
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Opinion | How the ABA Spreads DEI in Law Schools
The lawyers’ guild still has a monopoly on accreditation. Why? Source link
Los Angeles schools avoid a strike as a last-minute deal is reached with staff
LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles schools avoided a strike that would have impacted nearly 400,000 students in Southern California as the school district and the union representing support staff reached a tentative deal early Tuesday. Local 99 of the Service Employees International Union announced on social media that it won a tentative agreement with “major … Read more
Los Angeles schools strike averted as deal reached; schools are open Tuesday
A Los Angeles Unified School District strike has been avoided and schools are open Tuesday after the district and the Service Employees International Union reached a tentative agreement. SEIU Local 99, which represents about 30,000 aides, bus drivers, custodians and cafeteria workers, said the deal with the district, LAUSD, includes a 24% wage increase. The … Read more
Los Angeles Scrambles to Avoid Historic Schools Strike
Though agreements were reached with teacher and principal unions, negotiations with service workers inch to deadline. Source link
Opinion | Los Angeles Schools Can’t Do Math
Teachers get a rich new union contract despite awful student results. Source link
Breaking down U.S. News & World Report’s best graduate schools
LaMont Jones Jr., managing editor at U.S. News & World Report, joins “CBS Saturday Morning” to break down the 2026 list of best American graduate schools. Source link
Minnesota districts ask judge to restore limits on immigration enforcement near schools
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Attorneys for two Minnesota school districts and the state’s main teachers union asked a federal judge Wednesday to block a Trump administration change in policy that gave immigration authorities a freer hand to conduct enforcement actions in and near schools. The Department of Homeland Security last year rescinded longstanding nationwide restrictions … Read more
Bible stories would be required reading under controversial proposal for Texas public schools
Biblical stories like Jonah and the whale would be required reading for Texas public schools students under proposals that are putting the state at the center of renewed contentious wrangling over the role of religion in classrooms. Religious leaders, teachers, parents and students spent hours Tuesday before the state education board arguing about the reading … Read more
Bible stories would be part of a new Texas public schools reading list drawing attention
Biblical stories like Jonah and the whale would be required reading for Texas public schools students under proposals that are putting the state at the center of another contentious wrangling over the role of religion in classrooms. Religious leaders, teachers, parents and students spent hours Tuesday before the state education board arguing about the reading … Read more