A disability rights group has filed a class-action lawsuit against the Pasadena Unified School District alleging the school discriminates against students with behavioral issues by removing them from their local schools.
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Los Angeles County supervisors will consider asking the county CEO Tuesday to explore ways to raise ongoing money for its plan to reduce homelessness, including a potential tax increase.
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A grainy video showed 21-year-old Iraq war veteran Elio Carrion on the ground, pleading with a San Bernardino County deputy who held him at gunpoint.
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Even the name of this man’s speaking tour is inflammatory — certainly a no-go during prime time — and students are interrupting his appearances, accusing him of being sexist and promoting rape culture. Meet Milo Yiannopoulos.
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Edwin Raymond thought he could change the department from the inside.
He wound up the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit brought by 12 minority officers.
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When J.T. Taylor came to the University of Tennessee at Knoxville as a freshman, she immediately found a home at the Pride Center, which serves students who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer. Ms. Taylor, a senior who is African-American and identifies as queer, says she has also benefited immensely from a mentoring
Recent protests by student groups have drawn attention back to a broad and important question: How diverse are colleges, really?
Flagship institutions often find that question to be particularly pressing. Because of their public funding, there’s an expectation that their student bodies would resemble the demographics of the areas they serve. And increasingly, students want
SAN FRANCISCO ― Zaretta Hammond grew up in a low-income, non-White neighborhood in San Francisco, born to a teen mother who was raising three children by age 22.
Before Hammond began her formal education, her mother visited the school where neighbors typically enrolled their children. She searched for an alternative, fearing the nearby school’s scant resources
The death on Saturday of Antonin Scalia, the sharp-tongued justice who shaped constitutional debates for nearly 30 years, could end up shifting the Supreme Court’s ideological balance. But his absence is unlikely to affect the highly anticipated ruling in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, the pending legal challenge to race-conscious college-admissions policies. In short,
U.S. colleges and universities are experiencing increased student activism as young people protest escalating college costs and hostile racial climates on their campuses. And, findings from a new report suggest that participation in demonstrations may intensify in the coming months.
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