Elite NYC High Schools Under Fire in Revived Race Lawsuit (1) A lawsuit accusing New York City of entrenching racial segregation in the country’s largest public school system will move ahead, with top schools like Stuyvesant and Bronx Science in the spotlight. 05/3/2024 - 6:43 am | View Link
Parents of Black River student sue over sexual assault at high school track meet Two students from another school district followed her into the tent and sexually assaulted her, according to the lawsuit. The lack of lighting caused a “defect” on the grounds of the high school that ... 05/1/2024 - 10:13 pm | View Link
High school basketball coach recorded his sex acts with teen players in Ohio, feds say The alleged actions took place in the closet of the coach’s office, in his vehicle and in hotel rooms, authorities say. He was arrested in Charlotte, where he now lives. 05/1/2024 - 1:20 am | View Link
How Competitive High Schools Get Away With Race-Based Admissions The Supreme Court ended affirmative action for colleges, but entrance policies with racial effects persist at the K-12 level. 04/30/2024 - 7:45 pm | View Link
“Police Had To Break It Up”: 57 People Recall Their School’s Biggest Scandal Netizens in this online thread were recently sharing “the incident” that happened at their school, and boy, do these stories get scandalous. The post “Police Had To Break It Up”: 57 People Recall ... 04/25/2024 - 12:42 am | View Link
Kimberly Zapata, the former Milwaukee elections official who committed election fraud in the 2022 elections by falsely filing for three military absentee ballots found out her fate this week.
Zapata had been facing up to five years in prison, instead was sentenced to one year of probation, a $3,000 fine and 120 hours of community service.
Ukraine estimates that over half of all Russian casualties are due to small, cheap FPV drones are just modified consumer items. Last year, Russian radio jammers often brought them down, to the point that Ukraine was losing upwards of 10,000 a month. Since then, the technology has advanced and their jammers don't work anymore.
LONDON — Sadiq Khan, the Labour Party’s mayor of London, romped to victory Saturday, securing a record third straight term at City Hall, on another hugely disappointing day for the U. K.’s governing Conservatives ahead of a looming general election.
Khan won a little over a million votes, or nearly 44% of the vote, more than 11 percentage points ahead of his main challenger, the Conservative Party’s Susan Hall.
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — On a Monday morning last month, tech executives, engineers and sales representatives from Amazon, Google, TikTok and other companies endured a three-hour traffic jam as their cars crawled toward a mammoth conference at an event space in the desert, 50 miles outside Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
The lure: billions of dollars in Saudi money as the kingdom seeks to build a tech industry to complement its oil dominance.
To bypass the congestion, frustrated eventgoers drove onto the highway shoulder, kicking up plumes of desert sand as they sped past those following traffic rules.
For more than 50 years, the National Sports Center for the Disabled has been a world leader in adaptive snow sports at Winter Park, helping people with disabilities become active outdoors, offering competitive programs and producing paralympic athletes. Now it’s poised to expand its programs in the Front Range with a spacious new facility at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds.
The NSCD Adaptive Program Center opened Wednesday with a field day for 100 special needs students from Aurora Public Schools.
A high school athletic director in Maryland has been accused of using artificial intelligence to impersonate a principal on an audio recording that included racist and antisemitic comments, authorities said last month.
Authorities said the case appears to be among the first of its kind in the country and called for new laws to guard against the technology.