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As Republicans in Congress prepare for a possible backlash this fall against President Donald Trump, their counterparts in the Kentucky legislature are grappling with a similar threat from the state's teachers and public workers. This spring, thousands marched on the state Capitol in a protest that shuttered more than 30 school districts across the state and pressured lawmakers to remove some of the most hated proposals from a pension bill that would have taken away cost-of-living raises.
Two local school districts, Allamuchy and Montague, are among 12 statewide targeted in an ACLU legal action accusing them of illegally denying enrollment to illegal immigrant children by requiring what amounts to proof of legal residency. The lawsuits, filed on Thursday, come amid a searing national debate about states that have sanctuary policies for those residing in the country illegally and as some Trenton politicians, including Gov. Phil Murphy, are pushing for New Jersey to join their ranks by allowing driver's licenses for illegal immigrants.
Outgoing Bayonne police Chief Drew Sisk will receive more than $260,000 from the city over the next five years for unused sick time and other compensation. U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez weighed in on Hudson County's decision to renew its financial agreement with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, saying if he were in charge he would not support "ICE's mission as it relates to detaining individuals."
In the battle over the Supreme Court nomination of Brett Kavanaugh, the usual suspects are lining up in support and opposition. At the grass roots, however, there is one new entry nervously eyeing the Kavanaugh nomination.
The parents wanted them to come to their home on a Sunday to help sell it. The School Board recently reassigned their neighborhood from Seven Springs Middle and Mitchell High to River Ridge middle and high schools.
This Oct. 22, 2015 file photo shows U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, on Capitol Hill. Two men who were wrestlers at Ohio State University in the 1990s say Jordan isn't being truthful when he says he wasn't aware of allegations team doctor Richard Strauss was groping male wrestlers, NBC reported Tuesday, July 3, 2018.
When a federal court dismissed on June 29 the class-action lawsuit claiming the State of Michigan had deprived Detroit public schoolchildren of " their right to literacy ," the left was all set to react in faux shock. The court's key finding hardly came as news to most of us, but the headlines in the New York Times sounded as if someone had denied climate change: " Access to Literacy' Is Not a Constitutional Right, Judge in Detroit Rules ."
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has announced the end of its Channel One News broadcasts in school classrooms, and child advocates are bidding them a less-than-fond farewell. For 28 years, Channel One compelled students to watch a 12-minute newscast that includes two minutes of commercials.
Some of these people will go through the Cannon Tunnel, an underground walkway that connects the U.S. Capitol with the Cannon House Office Building - the oldest congressional office in the country. In that tunnel, there are hundreds of pieces of artwork that are created by high school students.
Conley is part of a wave of about ... . In this Thursday, June 14, 2018 photo, elementary school principal Sherrie Conley, left, who is running for state representative in District 20, gets out of a vehicle driven by friend Jana Robins, right, as she goes door-to-door... .
In this Thursday, June 14, 2018 photo, elementary school principal Sherrie Conley, left, who is running for state representative in District 20, gets out of a vehicle driven by friend Jana Robins, right, as she goes door-to-door campaigning in Goldsby, Okla, Thursday, June 14, 2018. Conley is part of a wave of about 100 educators, including dozens of Republicans, who are running for office in the aftermath of a teacher walk-out that shut down public schools for two weeks this spring and opened an unusually bitter chasm in the state's ruling party.
Democratic Rep. Scott Baltz filed the draft this month requiring Arkansas school districts to have the officers by the 2020-21 year, the Jonesboro Sun reported . School resource officers are armed law enforcement officers assigned to school campuses.
Summit County Prosecutor Sherri Bevan Walsh announced recently the FBI and the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Ohio are now involved in reviewing information into the recent cancellation of school field trips by Discovery Tours. According to Walsh, Discovery Tours, based in Mayfield Village, coordinated educational tours to several destinations for schools throughout Ohio, including to Washington, D.C., and Chicago.
This summer, 54 high school students in the U.S. Air Force Junior Reserve Officer's Training Corps are training to become pilots at Liberty University. The training is part of a nationwide, $2.4 million USAF effort to address the pilot shortage and to increase diversity in the aviation industry.
Amid intense nationwide debate over immigration policies, a California school board is naming a new elementary school after an undocumented immigrant. The school in Mountain View, California, will now hold the name of Jose Antonio Vargas, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who came to the United States from the Philippines in 1993 when he was 12. "I don't really have words for how meaningful this honor is, I've been speechless for a few days," Vargas, 37, told CNN.
A teacher has landed in hot water after showing graphic depictions of abortion during a middle school class on sexual education. After students from Sutter Middle School came home and told their parents what they'd seen, the Sacramento City Unified School District launched an investigation to identify exactly what the teacher has espoused in the classroom to determine if the material was in fact inappropriate for middle schoolers.
Two students from the Parkland, Florida high school where 17 students were killed joined Good Kids, Mad City protesters to oppose Mayor Emanuel's new $95 million police and fire academy. Parkland March for our L ives activists Sophie Whitney and Alex Wind said listen to the No Cop Academy Protesters.
On a sweltering Arizona evening under a park pavilion, math teacher Heather LaBelle handed out petitions for a ballot initiative that would increase taxes on wealthy residents to get funding for schools. Later that night, her school board voted to give her and her fellow teachers an average raise of 15.5 percent.