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Both houses of the Oklahoma legislature want school choice bills to become law, but the two sides have dug in over disagreements about how to craft the legislation. ....
A bill that would prohibit corporal punishment of students with disabilities failed in the Oklahoma House, but the author plans to bring it to the floor again on Monday. ....
Nearly three decades ago, a group of Cuban refugees from the Mariel boatlift took over a federal prison in Talladega, Alabama. The uprising lasted 11 days. Photos from the riot caught the attention of reporters Andrew Beck Grace and Chip Brantley, who would later feature the event in their NPR podcast White Lies. On Monday, Feb. 27, the Bill Cosford Cinema at the University of Miami hosted a conversation with Grace and Brantley, along with several other panelists, highlighting stories from the Mariel Boatlift and the Talladega prison riot that have long remained untold. ....