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A federal appeals court has ruled that Ecuadorean plaintiffs cannot collect a $9 billion judgment in the U.S. against Chevron for rainforest damage. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York ruled Monday.
Democrat platform shifts away from Obama agenda toward localized control and teacher autonomy, as unions flex muscles at expense of reformers. The Democratic National Convention was jarred by leaked emails suggesting party leaders rigged the nomination in favor of Hillary Clinton.
President Barack Obama meets with Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India in the Oval Office at the White House on June 7, 2016 in Washington, D.C. The Democratic Party is proposing a big overhaul of its official position on education, one which would give a huge victory to teachers unions while also repudiating almost all of President Barack Obama's legacy on K-12 schooling. The Obama administration has long aggravated teachers unions by favoring education reform policies, such as tying teacher evaluations to test scores and expanding the use of charter schools.
Pittsburgh has a long tradition of community involvement in the public schools. Our new superintendent, Anthony Hamlet, will get lots of advice as he starts his job.
The Supreme Court's decision Thursday upholding a University of Texas admissions program that takes account of race won't affect Wichita State University, the school's provost said. In a major victory for affirmative action, the justices voted in favor of the Texas program by a 4-3 vote, an outcome that was dramatically altered by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, who opposed affirmative action.
In the wake of a landmark affirmative action case decided by the U.S. Supreme Court Thursday , Twitter has gifted us with a new hashtag: #BeckyWithTheBadGrades. If you find yourself struggling to grasp the reference, Don't Hurt Yourself .
In a victory for affirmative action advocates, the Supreme Court upheld the University of Texas's admissions criteria that takes an applicant's race into account . The case was brought by a white female applicant, Abigail Fisher, who was denied admission to the university in 2008 and claimed that the school's holistic "Personal Achievement Index" violated the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause .
Same-sex couples in Mississippi should not be left guessing whether any particular clerk will refuse to issue them marriage licenses, a gay rights attorney argued Monday in federal court. Roberta Kaplan sued in 2014 to overturn the state's ban on gay marriage.
In the minds of many Texans, the Lone Star State's two flagship universities are polar opposites: The University of Texas at Austin is perceived as diverse, urban and liberal. Texas A&M University is viewed as white, rural and conservative.
Jenifer Morales-Garcia and Vernell Garvin introduce Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland, who is sitting behind them, on Wednesday, as their fifth-grade commencement speaker. The 45 fifth graders proceeded into the auditorium for their graduation while a song called "Conquerer" played in the background.
The strategies that Donald Trump's now-defunct educational company used to woo customers have plenty of echoes of the presumptive Republican nominee's current pitch to voters, based on newly disclosed court documents about Trump University. Hillary Clinton leapt on the parallels Wednesday, using them to cast Trump as a "fraud" who peddles false promises to Americans but cares only about his personal gain.
In vetoing a bill this week that would have stripped seniority protections from public school teachers, Gov. Tom Wolf raised a valid concern. The bill, which passed the Republican-controlled Legislature along predictable party lines, would have allowed districts to lay off teachers for general economic reasons rather than for specific declines in enrollment, as the law requires now.