A school board in Florida has voted 5-2 in favor of renaming six Jacksonville public schools so they are no longer named for leaders of the former Confederacy who sought to perpetuate slavery.
A group of parents has filed a federal lawsuit in Virginia against the Loudoun County School Board over a school district anti-racism policy in which only students of color are tapped as "ambassadors" to help officials police student speech.
Conflicting federal district court rulings in two New England circuits could set up a Supreme Court showdown over just how far states can go in allocating taxpayer funds to religious schools in towns lacking public schools.
Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry said Thursday that the next round of legal battles leading to the Supreme Court could be over COVID-19 vaccine mandates, and he is warning colleges in his state that requiring students and staff to get the shot is illegal.
In the essay, under the headline, “Accomplishments,” the student wrote, “My greatest accomplishment was uniting a great mass of German and Austrian people behind me.”
“I was pretty great wasn’t I?” the student wrote. “I was very popular and many people followed me until I died. My belif [sic] in antisemitism drove me to kill more than 6 million Jews.”
Lori Birk, an Englewood resident who posted the picture on Facebook, told NorthJersey.com that it was sent to her by the parent of another fifth-grade student at the school and that it was displayed in the hallway for “at least two weeks.”