Tag: Education issues
Arizona GOP advances wish list on race, taxes, elections
PHOENIX — The Arizona Senate passed a $12.8 billion budget for the coming fiscal year early Wednesday that contains massive income tax cuts after...
Hungary’s foreign minister defends law limiting LGBT rights
BUDAPEST, Hungary — Hungary's foreign minister alleged Tuesday that a disinformation campaign was being used to rally international criticism of a recent law passed...
Biden admin extends protections to transgender students
The U.S. Education Department on Wednesday expanded its interpretation of federal sex protections to include transgender and gay students, a move that reverses Trump-era...
Hungary: Lawmakers pass law barring LGBT content in schools
BUDAPEST, Hungary — Hungarian lawmakers passed legislation Tuesday that prohibits sharing with minors any content that portrays or promotes homosexuality or sex reassignment. to...
Fla. governor signs bill requiring moment for school prayer
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis visited a South Florida Jewish temple to denounce anti-Semitism and stand with Israel, as the Republican governor...
1998 Oregon school shooter: ‘tremendous shame and guilt’
SALEM, Ore. — Kip Kinkel, who killed his parents before going on a shooting rampage at his Oregon high school in 1998, killing two...
2 arrested in fatal shooting of Terre Haute high school girl
CARLISLE, Ind. — State police said over the weekend that two men have been arrested in a recent shooting that killed a 15-year-old high...
1 student fatally shot in new abduction in Nigeria’s north
LAGOS, Nigeria — A student has been fatally shot at a school in northern Nigeria as gunmen abducted eight students and two lecturers in...
Defense rests its case in Colorado school shooting trial
DENVER — One of the suspects in a fatal attack at a suburban Denver high school in 2019 had become such a chronic drug...
Legislators, students push for K-12 Asian American studies
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — When the Asian American Student Union at a Connecticut high school organized a Zoom call following the killing of six Asian...