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Los Angeles Teachers Reach Tentative Deal to Boost Pay
The Los Angeles Unified School District has agreed to increase pay for teachers by more than 21 percent over three…
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As New York Bans Native American Mascots, Some Schools Try to Keep Them
SCHENECTADY, N.Y. — Everywhere you look on the campus of Mohonasen Central School District, there are indications of Indigenous tradition:…
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Politics
Springfield, N.J.: A Homey Place With Relatively Affordable Housing
In this ‘family-friendly' Union County township just 25 miles from Midtown Manhattan, ‘you’re going to get a little bit more…
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Politics
The Tennessee State House Is Where We Belong
MEMPHIS — In January, my former high school classmate Larry Thorn was shot dead. Larry was sweet and beloved and…
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Nashville, Battered and Mourning, Pauses for Easter
The holiest day in the Christian calendar comes as the church-filled city is in a heated political debate, and still…
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Politics
Who’s Afraid of Integration? A Lot of People, Actually.
In 1999, Robert D. Potter, a federal judge who was a protégé of Senator Jesse Helms, Republican of North Carolina,…
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A School Shooting Came to Nashville. Country Music Can Help Stop the Next One.
They say we love our guns down South, and it’s true they are part of the pageantry of our beloved…
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World
A Chicago Mayoral Hopeful Who Took on Hard-to-Fix Schools Faces a Political Shift
Paul Vallas has long been a supporter of charter schools. He is running against Brandon Johnson, an ex-teacher with a…
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Politics
Can India Change the World?
NEW DELHI — Is India the world’s next tiger economy, poised to succeed a slowing China as a pillar of…
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What the Push for ‘Parents’ Rights’ Is Really About
You may have heard the phrase “parents’ rights.” It sounds unobjectionable — of course parents should have rights — which…