Des Moines Public Schools won't allow teachers to carry guns on campus following new law
Des Moines Public Schools won't allow teachers to carry guns on campus following new law
Des Moines Public Schools won't allow teachers to carry guns on campus following new law
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Pro-Palestinian encampments have been cleared from more US college campuses as school officials have called in law enforcement in recent weeks to quell mounting demonstrations over the institutions’ ties to Israel amid its military action in Gaza. Here are the latest developments:
VANCOUVER — The president of the University of British Columbia has told pro-Palestinian protesters that the school must remain neutral on the Gaza conflict. Benoit-Antoine Bacon says in response to demands by the organizers of a protest encampment on the Vancouver campus that professors and students hold a broad range of opinions and the university can't "presume to speak for everyone." Bacon says if the university took a position, it would undermine the rights of people who hold different view
The University of Pennsylvania police arrested 19 pro-Palestinian protesters Friday night after they allegedly tried to occupy a campus building, the school said. The university's police department said the protesters, the majority of whom were not students, attempted to get into Fisher-Bennett Hall when campus officers and officers from the Philadelphia Police Department intervened. Officers were seen scuffling with protesters and several people were taken away in handcuffs.
Ministers have come under pressure to cut international student numbers as part of efforts to reduce net immigration.
Colleges that used police force to end their recent on-campus student protests are facing criticism for their handling of the situation, but so are the small handful that cut deals to end the demonstrations. The few universities that successfully negotiated to end the pro-Palestinian encampments — among them Northwestern, Brown, Rutgers and Johns Hopkins —…
A Vermont university has bestowed the honorary degree of “doctor of litter-ature” on Max the cat, a beloved member of its community, ahead of students' graduation on Saturday. (AP produced by Javier Arciga)
The former Sacramento State professor was put on administrative leave for a message he sent students about Israel.
The UCLA Academic Senate rejected censuring and making a no confidence statement against university Chancellor Gene Block amid mounting criticism of his handling of a campus pro-Palestinian encampment that was violently attacked by counterprotesters.
A Mason High School student is dead after a crash that shut down all southbound lanes on I-71 for hours, the district said in a letter to families. Ohio State Highway Patrol said the person was 17 years old.
“In Florida, we will not tolerate calls for genocide,” a Florida education official said in response to the Muslim prayer leader’s comment about Jewish people.
The House Education and the Workforce Committee released a report Friday it says shows Harvard University’s lack of action against antisemitism, accusing the top university of suppressing its own antisemitism taskforce’s recommendations. Harvard’s Antisemitism Advisory Group (AAG) was created after the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel and laid out numerous recommendations to the school…
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A measure to repeal a now-defunct law passed last year that would use public money to fund private school tuition has been pulled from Nebraska’s November ballot, the secretary of state announced Thursday. Nebraska Secretary of State Bob Evnen said he's pulling from the ballot a measure to repeal the law that would have allowed corporations and individuals to divert millions of dollars in state income taxes they owed to nonprofit organizations that would award private school t
UCLA Academic Senate voted against censuring Chancellor Gene Block or saying it had 'no confidence' in his leadership
A Lakota student's traditional feather plume was cut off her graduation cap during her high school commencement ceremony this week in northwestern New Mexico. It was during the national anthem Monday night when Farmington High School faculty members approached the student, Genesis White Bull, and confiscated her cap, the Tri-City Record reported. The top of it had been decorated with traditional beadwork and an aópazan — Lakota for plume.
The union representing UC academic workers said Friday that its members at UC Santa Cruz would go on strike Monday over alleged worker rights and free speech violations.
The tumult on college campuses is abating. Could it return in the summer or fall?
As California public school enrollment declines again, state officials look to transitional kindergarten growth as a promising development.
Gaza cease-fire graduation demonstrations prove less eventful than campus protests. Will the trend continue at Sacramento State?