Martin Luther King Elementary students were evacuated after a loud noise. Authorities determined the sound came from plaster falling in the auditorium.
One hundred years before Rosa Parks ignited a 13-month bus boycott, Elizabeth Jennings led the way for New York. A presentation this evening at a Hudson Valley museum aims to share Jennings legacy in the Empire State. In July 1854, Jennings - a Black school teacher - refused to leave a streetcar designated for white passengers only in New York City and was assaulted by the conductor. .
A program is looking for Montanans to represent people in courts on tribal reservations, who often lack access to legal assistance when they need it. The Tribal Advocate Incubator Project wants to train lay advocates - that is, people who are not lawyers by profession - to represent folks in tribal courts across the state. "Tribal lay advocates will represent tribal members in tribal court regarding civil legal matters," said Valerie Falls Down, tribal advocacy coordinator for the Montana Legal Services Association, "including divorce and custody, landlord-tenant disputes, wills and probate, real estate and land issues." Montana s seven reservations are mostly rural, and a 2017 study found the poverty rate was 30% on the state s reservations. " .
More than two dozen parents, teachers and civic leaders on Tuesday appealed to Little Rock School District leaders to re-think proposals to close and/or repurpose four elementary schools and relocate existing pre-kindergartens to other campuses.
More than two dozen parents, teachers and civic leaders on Tuesday appealed to Little Rock School District leaders to re-think proposals to close and/or repurpose four elementary schools and relocate existing pre-kindergartens to other campuses.