Trump Administration Says That Nearly 200,000 Salvadorans Must Leave
LOS ANGELES — Nearly 200,000 people from El Salvador who have been allowed to live in the United States for more than a decade must leave the country, government officials announced Monday. It is the Trump administration’s latest reversal of years of immigration policies and one of the most consequential
How the Right Weaponized Free Speech
I was 10 years old when my father was suspended from his job as a high-school social-studies teacher. Two years later, he was fired for insubordination and conduct unbecoming a teacher because he refused to cooperate with an investigation into purported communist infiltration in the New York City public schools. His defense was eloquent….
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Is Protesting a Privilege?
Campus protests advocating for diversity occur more frequently at elite colleges, a study suggests.
Since her days as a Ph.D. student at Vanderbilt University, Dominique J. Baker says, she had wondered, “Why do certain universities have protests and others don’t?”
That curiosity led Ms. Baker and a colleague to study differences in protests among higher-education institutions…
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umina Foundation to Award $2.5 Million in Grants for “Addressing Hate”
Violence and racial chaos in Charlottesville earlier this year sparked a call to action for one philanthropic foundation dedicated to making post-secondary education accessible to all.
Mobilized to back words with action, Jamie Merisotis, president and CEO of the Lumina Foundation, announced Tuesday that the foundation will award $2.5 million in grants for community-building programs and
Justices Sharply Divided in Wedding Cake Case
WASHINGTON — Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, who almost certainly holds the crucial vote in the case of a Colorado baker who refused to make a wedding cake for a gay couple, sent sharply contradictory messages when it was argued Tuesday at the Supreme Court.
He asked a lawyer
US charter schools put growing numbers in racial isolation
Charter schools are among the nation’s most segregated, an Associated Press analysis finds — an outcome at odds, critics say, with their goal of offering a better alternative to failing traditional public schools.
National enrollment data shows that charters are vastly over-represented among schools where minorities study in the most extreme racial isolation. As of school
Revealing Themselves on Campus
While it’s unsurprising now when racist, homophobic or anti-Semitic posters crop up on college campuses, a rarer event is the white nationalist culprits sticking around to pose for photos.
But such is the case at Southern Methodist University, where police are currently investigating banners and posters espousing white supremacy that
Number of DACA Applications Stuck in the Mail Tops 900
More than 900 young immigrants applying for a renewal of temporary work permits had their applications rejected because of mail problems, a number far greater than immigration lawyers had thought earlier this month.
The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services acknowledged the significant impact on Thursday, as it
Police Failed on Many Fronts at Charlottesville Rally, Review Finds
The police badly mishandled white supremacist protests in Charlottesville, Va., in August, by failing to coordinate among agencies, give officers the gear they needed or keep protesters and counterprotesters separate, a former federal prosecutor reported on Friday.
In a report more than 200 pages long, Timothy