Category: Newyork

President Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order targeting college accreditors, a group of largely unknown but long-established companies that evaluate the educational quality and financial health of universities. The order, one of seven …

More Than 220 Academic Leaders Condemn Trump ‘Overreach’

Newyork

25/04/2025 admin

A day after Harvard sued the Trump administration over its decision to freeze billions in federal funds to the school, more than 220 higher education leaders from around the country signed a joint statement on Tuesday condemning the administration’s …

After the Wildfires, This High School Needed a Campus. It Found a Sears.

Newyork

25/04/2025 admin

For the foreseeable future, a school that burned during the fires in Los Angeles this year will call a retrofitted Sears home. Students and teachers at Palisades Charter High School have met online since a wildfire swept through Pacific Palisades in …

If You Think the School Lunch Battle is New — Go to Philadelphia

Newyork

25/04/2025 admin

A science museum in the city looks back at the history of feeding children in schools and reminds us how fraught the efforts have been for more than 100 years.

George Santos, Facing a Possible 87 Months in Prison, Is Out of Jokes

Newyork

25/04/2025 admin

On Friday, a federal judge will sentence the disgraced former congressman to a minimum of two years in prison, but Mr. Santos expects a harsher sentence.

21 Years Later, Deported Back to a ‘Home’ He Barely Knew

Newyork

25/04/2025 admin

Nascimento Blair returned home in shackles. He landed in Jamaica in February, 21 years after he had abandoned the island, seated next to dozens of his countrymen who were also handcuffed. As he stepped off the plane at the seaside airport in Kingston …

Mamdani Aims at Cuomo, Beginning Ad War in N.Y.C. Mayor’s Race

Newyork

25/04/2025 admin

Zohran Mamdani, who won attention for a series of online campaign videos, is the first candidate to air a broadcast ad in the Democratic primary race.