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Last week, the Texas House approved a bill that would require public school students to pass a U.S. citizenship test as a high school graduation requirement. It would also eliminate the state’s current U.S. history year-end exam.

A school district in Washington state banned all international travel in late April, siding with illegal alien students over citizens and legal immigrants.

Join us May 25 at CUNY offices on 42nd street to protest the invitation to BDS leader Linda Sarsour to keynote CUNY’s Commencement ceremony. Sarsour was invited by Ayman El-Mohandes, the dean of CUNY’s Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy. CUNY is standing by its decision to honor the Muslim activist. Such sanction is so malignant and so evil, it cannot be ignored. There is a responsibility for the time we are living in.

Many of the 300 graduates of Bethune-Cookman University, a historically black college, turned their backs on U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos as she gave her first commencement address since assuming her post.

New signs placed outside restrooms at the Northern Arizona University are asking students to check their “pee privilege.”

A student at the University of New Hampshire was berated by one of his peers for choosing to wear a poncho to celebrate Cinco De Mayo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-pdzs4FGR8 Student Danique Montique berated one of her peers on Cinco De Mayo over

An assistant professor at California State Polytechnic University argues in a recent academic research paper that eastern fox squirrels are subjected to a “gendered, racialized, and speciesist” form of media bias.

Lawmakers in both the House and Senate have introduced legislation aimed at banning schools from “lunch shaming” students who cannot afford to buy lunch.

The NAACP, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), the Florida Education Association and other leftist groups are stirring protest against the president of Bethune-Cookman University for his invitation to U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to be the school’s commencement speaker Wednesday.

Activists within the student government at the University of Wisconsin-Madison recently passed legislation which calls for “community control” of the campus police.

A professor at Duke University is facing two disciplinary proceedings after condemning diversity training initiatives taking place on campus.

President Donald Trump is promising “unwavering support” for the nation’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).

President Trump’s 23-year-old daughter Tiffany Trump has decided to attend Georgetown Law School this fall, the Daily Mail reported.

A student at Edgewood Middle School in Trenton, Ohio, was handed a 10-day suspension for “liking” the photo of an airsoft gun on Instagram.

An Asian student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has submitted a bias incident report in response to receiving a burnt piece of toast at the school’s cafeteria.

Student protesters at Fordham University derailed plans to add a Chick-Fil-A to the university’s cafeteria, citing concerns over the company’s stance on traditional marriage. Student activists at Fordham University in New York City successfully forced the university to cancel plans

Data from the U.S. Department of Education reveals that women are earning far more college degrees than men, according to a study by the American Enterprise Institute.

A high school Spanish teacher from Colorado has been suspended after she reportedly made a piñata with President Trump’s face on it and allowed her students to hit it.

U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos says even though Common Core no longer exists – a controversial statement in itself – she hopes states will still “shoot high” when choosing their standards.

A Berkeley student argues that free speech puts student safety at risk in an op-ed for the Daily Californian this week.

Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, has announced that they will fund ‘100 percent’ of financial aid packages for students that are in the country illegally.

A contentious race continues to heat up in the final days before the May 6 election in a Texas school district where dedicated progressives hope to unseat several incumbents on one of the state’s most conservative school boards.

French university academics have made an extraordinary intervention in the French election, emailing students and urging them to back establishment candidate Emmanuel Macron.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday criticized Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas for telling US President Donald Trump that the Palestinians educate their children in “a culture of peace,” saying the comment was “unfortunately not true.”

A University of California-Santa Barbara (UCSB) student group was caught on Wednesday falsely claiming that Israeli founding father David Ben-Gurion backed the expulsion of Arabs from areas that would become part of the Jewish state.

Two University of Kentucky students were arrested for allegedly trying to steal an upcoming statistics exam after the professor decided to work late.

Actor Jason Jones – the husband of President Donald Trump “resistor” Samantha Bee – is opposed to a move that would introduce further integration into the couple’s children’s school, but says his opposition should not be interpreted as “racist.”

More woes surfaced in an already troubled Texas school district after an administrator alleged wrongdoing in the special education department where students may have been improperly awarded course credit.

University of California President Janet Napolitano was skewered Tuesday in front of a California legislature oversight committee focusing on allegations her office plotted against a state audit, interfered with data collection, and waged a smear campaign to prevent revelations of hidden cash.

The Florida chapter of the NAACP is calling on U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to decline an invitation to give the commencement address at Bethune-Cookman University (B-CU), a private historically black university in Daytona Beach.

A new course at Butler University intends to provide students with “strategies for resistance” against President Trump’s administration. According to the course’s description, “Trumpism and U.S. Democracy” will teach students how to resist President Trump’s administration. “Donald J. Trump won

Students from across the country came together to draft a commitment to free speech principles pledge during a meeting held at the University of Chicago this week.

The University of Iowa hosted a conference on “white privilege” this semester in an effort to allow white students a space “to discuss whiteness and its privileges with other white people.”

President Donald Trump is praising the school voucher program for low-income students in the nation’s capital that former President Barack Obama regularly defunded.

An ex-science teacher stands accused of using his knowledge of science to launch an illegal methamphetamine manufacturing business, echoing the popular TV show, “Breaking Bad.”

The police department serving a north Texas university issued arrest warrants for three students in connection with possible organized criminal activity–two who stand accused of promoting prostitution and a third, solely on drug possession.