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Los Angeles school teacher Glenn Laird has been a union stalwart for almost four decades. He served as a co-chair of his school’s delegation to United Teachers Los Angeles and proudly wore union purple on the picket line.
But Laird is now suing to leave UTLA and demanding a refund of the dues the union has collected since his resignation request. His turning point came in July 2020 when the union, the second largest teachers union in the country, joined liberal activists to demand that Los Angeles defund the police in response to Black Lives Matter demonstrations.
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Game-changing gift announced at inaugural Penn Africa Research Symposium The $5 million gift creates the Holman Africa Initiative, expanding financial aid and enhancing opportunities for faculty and students to engage in research and teaching in and on Africa. Ocek Eke, director of Global and Local Service-Learning Programs at Penn Engineering, speaks at the start of the Penn Africa Research Symposium.
A $5 million gift from Wendy and Wayne Holman will create a new initiative at Penn aimed at dramatically expanding financial aid and enhancing opportunities for faculty and students to engage in research and teaching in and about Africa.
The Holman Africa Initiative was announced at the start of the inaugural Penn Africa Research Symposium organized by Penn Global, which offered more than 40 participants from across the University an opportunity to virtually present their wide-ranging research on Africa during a three-hour event. The n