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Biden's Title IX reforms would roll back Trump-era rules, expand victim protections

The administration proposed an overhaul of regulations to expand protections for LGBTQI+ students and require schools to respond to all sexual discrimination complaints.

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Mark Latham says 13,699 NSW teachers are not allowed to teach because of vaccine mandates. Is that correct?

Former Labor leader turned NSW MLC for One Nation Mark Latham says a NSW government report shows 13,699 teachers are not allowed to work due to vaccine mandates, and that this is causing the teacher shortage. RMIT ABC Fact Check investigates.

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Northern Ireland school uniform costs leading to children not going to school, campaigners say

Increase in grant welcome but more needs to be done

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Florida Department of Education aims to avoid critical race theory and social justice in social studies textbooks

Florida’s Department of Education issued guidance to textbook publishers informing them on the instructional materials that can and cannot be included in K-12 social studies textbooks. The guidance notes that “Critical Race Theory, Social Justice, Culturally Responsive Teaching, Social and Emotional Learning, and any other unsolicited theories that may lead…

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Dublin has highest number of Ukrainian children enrolled in Irish schools

Across the country, 6,797 Ukrainian children have enrolled in schools

Dublin Live

How Title IX has shaped women's athletics 50 years after its passage

When Title IX of the Education Amendments was signed into law on June 23, 1972, the text of the legislation said, "No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any…

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Teachers speak out about 'atrocious' staff shortages crippling many NSW public schools

Teachers need permission to speak to media, but whistleblowers want you to know what’s really going on in NSW schools hit by staff shortages.

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How Kamala Harris took down Corinthian Colleges as California’s attorney general, in her words

WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris’ decade-long “journey for justice” on behalf of Corinthian Colleges students will soon come to a close as the Biden administration promises to relieve borrowers of their remaining federal student loans.

McClatchy Washington Bureau

Kamala Harris to announce debt relief for Corinthian College students

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration plans to forgive loans for an estimated 560,000 former students of Corinthian Colleges, a group of for-profit schools that Vice President Kamala Harris helped put out of business when she was attorney general of California, a senior administration official said Wednesday.

Los Angeles Times

Biden Tiptoes Closer to Mass Forgiveness of Federal Student Loan Debt

Biden wants to forgive $10,000 in federal loan debt per borrower, regardless of whether they need it.

Reason

What happens to the school building in Uvalde, Texas?

Public officials and residents of Uvalde, Texas, will have to grapple with a difficult question as the community continues recovering from last week’s shooting at Robb Elementary School: What should be done with the building where 19 children and two teachers were massacred?

Tribune News Service

‘Last in, first out’ policy causes havoc for Ireland’s special needs assistants, says rep

Linda O’ Sullivan, a working SNA and representative for trade union Forsa, believes that SNAs have not received adequate recognition for their work in the past

Irish Mirror

Bungendore divided over high school as NSW govt takes ownership of land

Bungendore High School is a step closer to reality, but residents are split on the location the NSW government has selected.

The Canberra Times

Citipointe Childcare fined $18,000 for losing toddler after bushland excursion in Brisbane

A childcare service affiliated with a Brisbane school that demanded students sign an enrolment contract denouncing homosexuality has been fined $18,000 after a toddler went missing on an excursion.

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Dublin mum feels helpless as young non-verbal son deteriorates before her eyes due to lack of support

She is calling on the Government to provide more therapy and respite to children with additional needs

Miami Herald

Most Florida reviewers of math textbooks saw numbers, not ‘woke’ concepts, but a few did

Dozens of state reviewers found no evidence of “prohibited topics” like critical race theory and social-emotional learning in math textbooks, a partial review of nearly 6,000 pages of book examinations shows. However, a much smaller number of reviewers did find examples they disagreed with on those topics.

Orlando Sentinel

Orlando Sentinel, Sun Sentinel stand by math book story despite education agency’s complaint

ORLANDO, Fla. — The Florida Department of Education on Friday disputed an Orlando Sentinel/South Florida Sun Sentinel story about what math textbook reviewers found in the books, but the newspapers stand by their work.

Salon

GOP's move to stop debt relief backfires

The GOP's attack is a tacit acknowledgment that Biden appears to have the power to finally make good on his promise

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Tribune News Service

A closer look at Florida’s rejected math textbooks

It’s been two weeks since Gov. Ron DeSantis declared that nearly half the state’s proposed new math books weren’t fit for Florida classrooms. He offered few details about his claims of “indoctrination” then, and the Department of Education hasn’t provided specifics since, beyond posting four passages without explanation.

Salon

Liberty faces probe over rape claims

The school dismissed reports of rape and threatened to punish accusers for running afoul of its moral code

Tribune News Service

Editorial: Many questions and few answers on math textbook ban

On the website of Houston-based Accelerate Learning is a group photo of young people, lined up and holding hands.

Los Angeles Times

Feds to forgive $238 million in loans for students of failed Marinello beauty schools

Former students of the shuttered Marinello Schools of Beauty will have their loans forgiven, totaling $238 million for approximately 28,000 students, the federal government announced Thursday.

Tribune News Service

Teacher escapes losing job for discussing student’s gender identity

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A South Florida high school teacher who almost lost her job for discussing a student’s gender identity in class should be able to stay in the classroom, a state judge ruled this week.

Irish Mirror

Department of Education lost nearly 17,000 days to sick leave among staff over two years

Stress and work stress were among the most common reasons cited

Newcastle Herald

Hunter school teachers prepare to strike on May 4

The Department of Education called on the NSW Teachers Federation to call off the action.

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