Columbia University students occupied Hamilton Hall on Tuesday. Pro Palestine protesters. NYPD warned the protests have been infiltrated by 'external agitators'
A West Virginia school board "punished" a group of middle school girls who protested a biological male competing against them at a track meet earlier this month, according to a legal complaint. What's the background? Cellphone video showed girls from Lincoln Middle School staging a protest in the shot put ring at the Harrison County Middle School Championships on April 18; one by one, they stepped into the ring and then quickly stepped out without making attempts. — (@) ...
In most cases, when school boards are confronted about issues, it is the parents confronting them. After all, not only are they the taxpayers, but they also have a vested interest in their children's education. In a recent case, however, one student didn't wait around for her parents to take on her local school board. In what is a pretty gutsy move for someone her age, she decided to take the school board on herself. When it's parents taking on the school board, in many cases, they turn a deaf...
Two advocacy groups met this month with local school officials to discuss the functions of the Charleston County School District (CCSD) Board of Trustees and student academic performance.
Steven Sahiounie, journalist and political commentator The students in America and Canada have a war to stop, and they are determined to protest the Israeli war on Gaza. The US and Canadian government’s undying support for the genocide in Gaza has brought them under massive protests across university and college campuses, and the students are […]
Pro-Palestinian demonstrators are calling on universities to sell investments in companies they say are complicit in war in GazaAs protests against Israel’s offensive in Gaza are spreading throughout American campuses, one demand made by students across schools keeps coming up: divestment from Israel.Universities rely on endowments to fund things like research and scholarships, and those endowments are typically invested in companies and alternative asset classes, such as private equity and...
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Campus organizers at three universities filed legal complaints on Monday arguing that their schools’ investments in planet-heating fossil fuels are illegal, the Guardian has learned. The students from Columbia University, Tulane University, and the University of Virginia each wrote to the […]
Students rallied on the steps of City Hall, calling for broader access to journalism in city public schools. Student journalism opportunities at New York City’s public schools tend to be limited to whiter and more affluent schools – and a group of kids wants to change that. [ more › ]
FIFA is close to reaching an agreement on a new deal, which may raise the financial compensation for teams participating in the Club World Cup, scheduled in the United States of America next summer, according to a press report. The next edition of the Club World Cup will be the first in which the number […]
Police in Hakata, Fukuoka Prefecture, have arrested a 29-year-old man after he used his smartphone to film up the skirt of a high school girl on an escalator. According to police, the incident occurred at around 6 p.m. Saturday on an escalator at Hakata Bus Terminal, Broadcaster TBS reported that
Student activists have successfully pushed Columbia to divest from several other areas in the past.
The lack of capacity in the state’s vocational-technical high schools prompted education officials to mandate admission policies that would ensure all students equitable access to education. In 2021, the advocacy group Vocational Education Justice Coalition pushed for the use of lotteries to pick the student body instead of most admissions policies at the time that […]