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PennDOT looks to start major projects on I-70, Route 981 in Westmoreland

The latest in a series of interchange improvements along Interstate 70 and a long-discussed upgrade of the Route 981 corridor north of Mt. Pleasant are among major projects PennDOT plans to tackle in Westmoreland County this year. Officials with Uniontown-based PennDOT District 12 said they expect to move forward with

A White Teacher Reportedly Cut Off a Biracial Student s Hair

A White Teacher Reportedly Cut Off a Biracial Student’s Hair Claire Lampen © Image Source/Getty Images Image Source/Getty Images A white Michigan school teacher reportedly took it upon herself to cut a biracial student’s hair last month. The girl’s father, Jimmy Hoffmeyer, told the Associated Press that when he complained to the principal, “She said she didn’t have the authority to do anything,” and instead asked “what she could do to make it go away.” According to Hoffmeyer, this was the second unasked-for chop his 7-year-old daughter, Jurnee, received in a single week. On March 24, she came home from school with one side of her head closely cropped, after another student (also white) took scissors to her long curls on the bus. “It was a child,” Hoffmeyer explained to Mount Pleasant ABC affiliate WJRT, “and you’re not thinking of any serious consequences having to do with a kid.” He says he took Jurnee to a salon that afternoon, whe

Mount Pleasant family says daughter s haircut by school staff exposes racial bias

Credit Courtesy Jimmy Hoffmeyer A couple of weeks ago, Jurnee Hoffmeyer got her hair cut by another student on the bus home from school, her father, Jimmy, says. It didn’t look great. “Half of her hair was gone off the side of her head,” he said. Jimmy was mad, he said, but he figured, she’s 7 years old. She’ll be fine. They went to a salon to get Jurnee’s hair fixed up. She didn’t want it entirely evened out, her father said, because it would be too short. They went with a semi-fashionable asymmetrical cut, he said.

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