WASHINGTON, April 26 -- America First Legal, a civil rights organization, issued the following news release on April, 25, 2024: Today, America First Legal (AFL) sued the Department of Education for obstructing the release of government records regarding pro-Hamas violence and intimidation on American college campuses, including involvement from foreign students in the U.S. on F-1 student visas. On October 7, 2023, Hamas broke its long-standing ceasefire with Israel, launching a massive wave of  more

TORONTO, Ontario, April 25 (TNSres) -- CIFAR, a research organization that says it brings together teams of top researchers from around the world to address important and complex questions, issued the following news: New CIFAR AI Insights report proposes tools for policymakers that extend beyond standard privacy-driven strategies for digital regulation. As any parent of an iPad-obsessed tween can attest, AI technologies have become deeply enmeshed in our children's lives and imaginations. Exam  more

OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma, April 25 (TNSres) -- The Human Rights Campaign issued the following news release: * * * Supt. Walters leads a weakened Oklahoma Department of Education heading into Thursday's monthly Board of Education meeting To questions about his department's dysfunction, staff departures, and mishandling of grants, Walters can only muster: "There are two genders." * * * As advocates, educators, students, and parents prepare for another contentious Board of Education meeting at   more

ST. PAUL, Minnesota, April 25 -- The Minnesota Senate Republican Caucus issued the following news on April 24, 2024: Last week the Minnesota Senate passed a hyper-partisan Elections Policy Omnibus bill (https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=SF4729&version=latest&session=ls93&session_year=2024&session_number=0) that adds costly burdens to local governments, reduces community representation in local elections, and fails to deliver integrity and transparency to Minnesota's elections. O  more

WASHINGTON, April 25 -- The U.S. Department of Education has issued a notice, published in the Federal Register on April 24, 2024, entitled "Applications for New Awards; Expanding Opportunity Through Quality Charter Schools Program - Grants to Charter School Developers for the Opening of New Charter Schools and for the Replication and Expansion of High-Quality Charter Schools." The notice was issued by Adam Schott, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Delegated the Authority to Perform the Fun  more

WASHINGTON, April 25 -- The U.S. Department of Education has issued a notice, published in the Federal Register on April 24, 2024, entitled "Applications for New Awards; Expanding Opportunity Through Quality Charter Schools Program - State Charter School Facilities Incentive Grant Program." The notice was issued by Adam Schott, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Delegated the Authority to Perform the Functions and Duties of the Assistant Secretary for the Office Elementary and Secondary Educ  more

OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma, April 26 -- The Human Rights Campaign issued the following news release on April 25, 2024: Today, in an emotionally charged Oklahoma State Board of Education (OSDE) meeting, nearly every public speaker used their time to sharply criticize State Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters for his failure to make appropriate use of public funding, protect the state's LGBTQ+ students, and keep Oklahoma schools safe. Their message was clear: Ryan Walters must be remov  more

BOISE, Idaho, April 25 -- The Idaho Department of Education issued the following news release: Eighteen local education agencies in Idaho will receive full or part-time school-based nurses thanks to funding from the Healthy Schools Grant. The grant aids in supporting school- based nursing in underserved schools in Idaho. The Healthy Schools Grant is funded by the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare, Division of Medicaid, and is administered by the Idaho Department of Education. The grant aw  more

OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma, April 25 -- The Oklahoma State Senate issued the following news release on April 24, 2024: The Oklahoma Senate on Tuesday passed a bill to prohibit public school employees from using corporal punishment on disabled students. In a 31-11 vote, the Senate passed House Bill 1028 (http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=HB1028) from Rep. John Talley, R-Stillwater, and Sen. Dave Rader, R-Tulsa, that prevents school personnel from hitting, slapping, paddling or inflic  more

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, April 25 -- The University of Michigan's Ford School of Public Policy issued the following news: University of Michigan researchers from the Education Policy Initiative (EPI) at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and the Marsal Family School of Education have partnered with MDRC, District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS), and the Urban Institute to launch a study on the implementation of high-quality, domain-specific Pre-K curricula. The project builds on previous   more

FLINT, Michigan, April 26 -- The University of Michigan-Flint issued the following news: Newspapers are notoriously difficult documents to preserve. Newsprint is, by definition, a low-cost and non-archival paper. That means it's all too easy for the history contained in those newspapers - particularly smaller publications without the resources to house a dedicated archive - to be lost. "Unless they were microfilmed or someone digitized them, chances are historical papers no longer exist," said  more

CORAL GABLES, Florida, April 25 -- The University of Miami's Miami Herbert Business School issued the following news: By Blair S. Walker At a loss for words, the 30 or so students in Associate Professor W. Brian Barrett's graduate finance class gazed at each other quizzically: Was their guest speaker, legendary investor and financial analyst Mario Gabelli, serious, or was he joking? A bemused Gabelli erased all doubts by repeating his offer to give each University of Miami Patti and Allan Her  more