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Oklahoma’s Religious Public Charter School Would Be an Affront to Taxpayers Everywhere
Something deeply un-American is underway in the state of Oklahoma. In June, Oklahoma’s Statewide Virtual Charter School Board approved the nation’s first religious public charter school. The Archdiocese of Oklahoma City and the Diocese of Tulsa were ...
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Florida Schools Question Content on Gender and Sexuality in A.P. Psychology
The Latest Advanced Placement Psychology is the subject of the latest skirmish in the monthslong battle between the state of Florida and the College Board. The board said in a statement released on Thursday afternoon that several Florida school ...
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A Left-Right Alliance Puts Iowa’s CO2 Pipelines on the Presidential Agenda
Liberal environmentalists and conservative landowners, led by the former congressman Steve King, are pressuring Republican candidates to block two huge Midwestern pipelines.
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How Trump Could Wreck Things for Republicans in 2024
Things just got a whole lot more interesting in New Hampshire politics. Just below the presidential churn, the governor’s race in the politically quirky Granite State has some superjuicy drama percolating — the kind that offers a vivid reminder of ...
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Florida’s New Black History Standards Have Drawn Backlash. Who Wrote Them?
In updating the standards to comply with a new law that limits how racism can be taught, officials largely bypassed the state’s African American History Task Force.
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Ron DeSantis Wants to Tell the Future by Controlling the Past
Last week, Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida was, along with his state’s Board of Education, embroiled in a controversy over a new curriculum for student instruction in African American history. Most of the coverage, and much of the outrage, focused on a ...
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Judge Orders Release of Three of ‘Newburgh Four,’ Criticizing F.B.I.
Judge Colleen McMahon of U.S. District Court suggested that the federal agency had “invented” a conspiracy.
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What Russia Sees: In Crimea, ‘Everyone Is Having Fun’
On Russian state television, explosions on the roadway of a 12-mile bridge are no reason to cancel your vacation to the beaches of the Crimean Peninsula, even with a war raging nearby on mainland Ukraine. Channel One RussiaCreditCredit...Channel One ...
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Business
Jobs Sit Empty in the Public Sector, So Unions Pitch In to Recruit
Shortages of state and city personnel, especially those who must work on site, are so dire that unions are helping to get people in the door.
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An Israel Divided Against Itself
More from our inbox: Ron DeSantis and Black History in FloridaLegacy Admissions‘Prostitution Is Cruelty’Protests in Jerusalem went late on Monday night.Credit...Ilan Rosenberg/ReutersTo the Editor: Re “As Israel Churns, Lawmakers Pass Court Overhaul ...