by Jordan Owens | May 28, 2025 | Education
Education Department Secretary Linda McMahon testified at a House appropriations committee on the department’s proposed budget for the 2026 Fiscal Year. McMahon says the department is looking at cutting Head Start programs and mental health services for...
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by Jordan Owens | May 16, 2025 | Education, Featured
WASHINGTON — As protesters gathered on the front steps of the Supreme Court, the justices inside heard arguments in a Maryland case that could determine whether parents, due to their religious beliefs, have the right to pull their children out of classes that...
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by Jordan Owens | May 12, 2025 | Education, Featured
WASHINGTON — As anti-Israel protests increased on campuses this week, some Republican members of Congress blasted universities for failing to stop anti-semitism. “It’s a moral issue, and every school that allows this chaos to continue needs to lose all...
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by Jordan Owens | May 6, 2025 | Education
WASHINGTON – In a recent letter to Northwestern University President Michael Schill, the U.S. House Committee on Education and Workforce Chairman Tim Walberg, R-Mich., accused Schill of failing to keep his promise to discipline students involved in antisemitism on...
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by Jordan Owens | Apr 23, 2025 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – Black mayors from across the country gathered in the nation’s capital for the annual African American Mayors Association Conference last week and strategized ways to govern their cities despite ongoing federal job cuts and recent actions coming from the...
