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Nicholas Burns, the United States ambassador to China, will deliver the Harvard Kennedy School’s 2024 graduation address on May 22, the school announced last Wednesday. Burns — who served as a professor of diplomacy and international relations at the Kennedy School for 13 years — said in a press release he was “honored” to return. […]
CNBC’s senior personal finance correspondent Sharon Epperson speaks with high school students as part of Junior Achievement of Middle Tennessee’s Finance Park financial literacy program. Sam Wiseman High schools are increasingly offering real-world financial lessons to students — and soon more than half of U.S. high schoolers will be required to take a personal finance […]
Tommy Metthe/The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette via AP Students make their way into Little Rock Central High School on Monday, Aug. 24, 2020, for the first day of classes in the Little Rock School District. CNN — Students in Arkansas public high schools enrolled in the controversial Advanced Placement African American Studies course will not be able […]
Courtesy Gallaudet University Students at Kendall School Division II for Negroes, a segregated private K-12 school for Black deaf students that operated on Gallaudet’s campus in the early 1950s. CNN — At least 24 Black deaf students who attended a segregated school on the grounds of Gallaudet University in Washington, DC, in the early . […]
Gov. Ned Lamont on Friday spoke at a commencement ceremony for people incarcerated at Suffield’s MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution, a rare visit for the second-term governor who has faced backlash for his record on criminal justice. Seven people in black graduation attire with blue and gold sashes — Maurice Blackwell, Kyle Gonzalez, David Grant, Marcus Harvin, […]
Police say a 19-year-old suspect was arrested shortly after the mass shooting and found in possession of four handguns. A man armed with four handguns killed two people and wounded five others when he fired into a crowd after a high school graduation ceremony in the United States city of Richmond, Virginia, police have said. […]
Colo. Student Can’t Wear Mexican, U.S. Flag Sash at Graduation: Judge Skip to content Source link
A federal judge on Friday upheld a decision barring a student from wearing a sash honoring her Mexican American heritage to her graduation ceremony after the high school senior sued her Colorado school district. In the lawsuit, filed on Wednesday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado, lawyers for the student, Naomi […]
From Native American Rights Fund Lena’ Black, who is a member of the Otoe-Missouria Tribe and of Osage descent, argues her rights to free speech and the free exercise of religion were violated. CNN — A high school graduate is suing her former Oklahoma school district after she says school officials prevented her from wearing […]
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS (Associated Press) JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A transgender girl in Mississippi is not participating in her high school graduation ceremony because school officials told her to dress like a boy and a federal judge did not block the officials’ decision, an attorney for the girl’s family said Saturday. Linda Morris, staff […]