EDUCATION

The Biden administration has agreed to cancel $6 billion in student loans for about 200,000 former students who say they were defrauded by their colleges.

A Connecticut woman who says she's descended from slaves shown in widely published, historical photos owned by Harvard University can sue the school for emotional distress.

More than 100 volunteers came out on Thursday for A Gift for Teaching’s “The Great Big Backpack Build” event to get students ready for back-to-school in August.

It's the 50th anniversary of Title IX.

The number of women competing at the highest level of college athletics continues to rise along with an increasing funding gap for men’s and women’s sports programs.

The sister of a 9-year-old girl killed in the Uvalde school shooting rampage has tearfully pleaded with Texas lawmakers to pass tougher gun laws and questioned why so many security measures failed.

One of the most difficult academic years in the nation's history was also one of the most violent.

Ohio State University has won its fight to trademark the word “The.”.

In the 50 years since the landmark law was passed, profound strides have been made in women and girls’ participation in sports.

The first public hearings in Texas looking into the Uvalde school massacre have centered on law enforcement blunders, school building safety and mental health.

Some young girls are auctioned off into marriage for cows in South Sudan.

Briana Scurry's soccer jersey from the 1999 Women's World Cup is at the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture.

Parents and the public had the opportunity to hear in-depth from the two finalists for Orange County Public Schools' superintendent position ahead of the school board's upcoming interviews.

Alexandre Temes calls her job a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. The manager of the Englewood Kidz Zone grew up right in the neighborhood and has worked at the center for 23 years, starting as a summer camp counselor when she was just 16 years old.

In this ever-evolving world we live in, safe to say, probably no one even knows what our kids will be doing when it’s time for them to get jobs and “make it” in the career world.

Fields such as nursing, construction, machining and robotics are regularly hiring, and often paying good wages upon completion of training.

It’s where students learn specific skills needed to perform tasks associated with a career.

The Supreme Court has ruled that religious schools can’t be excluded from a Maine program that offers tuition aid for private education.

Students can get an education, get out into the career field and make more money in an accelerated period of time.

WNBA co-owner Ginny Gilder says fighting for equal treatment as a rower at Yale 46 years ago radicalized her.

A college basketball player was killed and eight other people were wounded Monday in an early-morning shooting at a gathering in Harlem, New York City police said.

Ann Meyers Drysdale was the first woman to receive an athletic scholarship at UCLA.

Title IX is best known for its role in gender equity in athletics and sexual harassment on campuses.

Title IX compliance is such an omnipresent part of running a college sports program that its significance can often be overlooked.

Rhetoric against LGBTQ people is now targeting drag storytimes with interruptions and other protests around the country during Pride Month.

The curious history of a Massachusetts beach named after an enslaved African American is the focus of new efforts to recognize the role of slavery along the state’s picturesque North Shore.

Thousands of Central Florida families who relied on free meals at school throughout the pandemic will have to apply for the benefit starting this next school year, but there are options for the summer.

A bookstore owner who said she reads a book a day is helping to give away more than a thousand books for free this weekend in honor of Juneteenth.

Gov. Ron DeSantis’ political campaign this week launched a questionnaire designed to gauge how closely local school board candidates align with the Republican leader’s educational priorities.

This year, the Orange County Library System is going hybrid with its reading program with virtual and in-person events. It’s all in an effort to keep both kids and adults excited to continue learning and reading over the summer months.

A father has been acquitted of paying off a Georgetown University tennis coach to get his daughter into the school in the final trial linked to the college admissions bribery scandal.

As many victims of campus sexual assault see it, guidelines put in place to protect them at colleges have a long way to go to fulfill the promise of Title IX.

Sheriff Marcos Lopez said the Real-Time Crime Center and the ongoing effort to add additional school camera feeds means better protection.

Virginelle Vincent noticed a 16-year-old she works with was in need of emotional support. Vincent was on her way home from work when she overheard the teen having a conversation with a co-worker and seemed in distress.

The effort to officially celebrate Juneteenth as a paid holiday has faced skepticism inside legislatures that have largely chosen symbolic gestures to recognize the holiday while curtailing certain conversations on race and racism.

As the nation celebrates the 50th anniversary of Title IX, a new poll finds Americans are split on how much progress has come from the landmark women's rights law.

Thom Battisto started his nonprofit Read to Sydney to help students read more confidently by providing them with a therapy dog.

The Osceola School District is holding another job fair in an attempt to hire more bus drivers for the upcoming school year.

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine has signed a bill into law allowing school districts the option of arming employees.

As the population in Seminole County keeps growing, the Seminole County Public Library System is looking to meet the booming demand.

Latinos are leading the way in U.S. activism around climate change from grassroots organizing to global advocacy, often drawing on traditions from their ancestral homelands and the experience of effects on their communities.

Superintendent Cathy Mittelstadt announced new leadership changes within Flagler County schools Friday.

President Joe Biden says Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy “didn’t want to hear it” when U.S. intelligence gathered information that Russia was preparing to invade.

The Kurt Vonnegut Museum is donating copies of Slaughterhouse-Five after the book was removed from a Bayside High School class.

Harvard University President Lawrence Bacow has announced that he plans to step down next year.

The circle of life was on vivid display Wednesday at the Jersey Shore in a way that even the youngest children could understand.

Jill Biden is urging graduates of a Los Angeles community college to never forget where they came from.

The Osceola County school district’s library supervisor explained the process behind selecting books for the shelves Tuesday night to a school board in the process of removing and reviewing some of those books.

Parents are expressing concerns as the Marion County school district returns to its pre-pandemic plan for its summer lunch program.

Lawyers for Gov. Ron DeSantis and Attorney General Ashley Moody are fighting an attempt to block a state law and regulations that limit the way race-related issues can be taught in public schools and in workplace training.

Long after Covid is gone, countries that closed schools longer and didn’t teach well online will do worse than others.

A former Chicago Public Schools administrator who founded the city’s charter school program will take the helm next month as the new superintendent of schools for the Archdiocese of Chicago, church officials said Monday.

President Joe Biden has faced mounting criticism from fellow Democrats over his approach to the situation, and for not being more critical of Israel.

The 4-year-old boy, who has not been identified, was found dead in the middle of the block before 7 a.m. CT Saturday, according to police.

May 16—A female dog named Charis recently received a special treat marking her one-year anniversary at the Effingham County Humane Society. But Charis had something else to bark about. She was going to be picked up later by her newly adopted family. Charis was a little feisty at her party. There were quite a few new faces she had never seen before, according to ECHS Adoption Coordinator Angie ...

An Italian judge accused of taking bribes to free mobsters from prison is at the centre of an arms trafficking investigation after allegedly amassing a huge arsenal of illegal military-grade weapons. A new arrest warrant was issued for Giuseppe De Benedictis, after police discovered one of the largest private stashes of weapons ever confiscated in Italy. The Bari judge was already facing corruption charges after police bugged gangsters bragging about buying him for 30,000 euros. It comes as Italy reckons with the ongoing influence of organised crime in a mafia "super-trial," in which more than 350 alleged mobsters and their collaborators will face justice. It is the biggest mafia trial since the 1980s. The arsenal was hidden beneath a rural farmhouse among the olive and almond groves north of Bari. When police lifted the cellar's heavy iron lid, which had been soldered shut, they discovered nearly 200 different weapons, including Kalashnikovs, AR15s, UZI, Socimi and Beretta machine guns, pump action shotguns, CZ and other semi-automatic pistols, hand grenades, 100,000 rounds of ammunition, and even an anti-tank mine. Anti-mafia authorities are now investigating whether some military equipment may have been stolen from the Italian army to be sold on the black market. Prosecutors believe Mr De Benedictis and an Italian army officer may have been helping organised crime gangs move illegal arms through the port city of Bari, but the ex-judge maintains the collection was just a side hobby. A known, passionate collector of rare and antique guns, he reportedly firsty told authorities he had dumped any questionable weapons into the Adriatic Sea, but police continued to search for the cache, following leads from wiretapped conversations. According to Lecce prosecutors and the 40-page arrest warrant issued by Investigating Magistrate Guilia Proto, Mr De Benedictis had wiretapped conversations with an Italian Army official in Bari, Corporal Major Antonio Serafino, about how to procure arms and where to hide them. Corporal Major Serafino worked at the passport office of the Italian Armed Forces Mechanised Brigade “Pinerolo” in Bari. The brigade has infantry, cavalry and artillery regiments with access to howitzers and other arms. According to court documents, police bugged his car, and the hidden microphone picked up the sound of machine gun fire from Serafino’s balcony in a Bari suburb on New Year’s Eve, as he and Mr De Benedictis tested out some of their weapons. The same bugs picked up conversations between the judge and the army officer debating about whether and how to move the cache of weapons from the “well” in a rural location. The well turned out to be an underground storage cellar in an outbuilding of a farmhouse near the village of Andria. The arrest warrant issued this week charged the farmhouse owner, Corporal Major Serafino and Mr De Bendictis with illegal arms dealing. It referred to them as “authentic traffickers of weapons of war” which they deny. Prosecutors are in the process of verifying the provenance of the arms to determine if they may have been the property of the Italian Army, and if so, what other public officials might have been complicit in aiding their disappearance.

Longtime friendship with boy and his parents leads to idea of help funding college.

Why should I hold on to my vaccination card? Should I let my child play sports? These are coronavirus questions we asked health and science experts.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. The Florida Board of Governors is expected to meet Thursday in Tallahassee to discuss the reopening of universities in Florida. Officials are expected to discuss several options for the fall semester, including the possibility of having a mix of online and in-person classes. However, officials with the University of Central Florida have said they are looking to shift more classes online and reduce classroom capacities. Leaders there say in-person classes will resume in August, but the school will go back to online learning after Thanksgiving. Officials say the move is intended to reduce the chances of an outbreak from students who travel during the holiday break.

On Thursday, the Board of Governors presented its blueprint for the reopening of the states 12 public college campuses. While each university will have to come up with its own individual plans for how to reopen campus, the Board of Governors is supporting students returning back to campus this fall. The blueprint that was presented was broad but laid out the elements the universities will have to implement moving forward. Working with the Florida Department of Health to assist in contact tracing and elevated surveillance related to any positive cases. The Board of Governors will review each set of plans and decide if they will approve those plans during a face-to-face meeting at the University of Central Florida on June 23.

The policy has drawn backlash from Democrats and state education leaders who say it reroutes money from needy public schools to wealthier private ones. The legislation tells states to divide the funding among public schools based on the number and share of low-income students they teach. It also tells public schools to use a portion of the money to provide services, such as busing or tutoring, to students who attend local private schools. On April 30, however, DeVos issued new guidance telling public schools to divide the coronavirus aid based on the total number of students at local private schools, not just low-income ones. In the state's Orleans Parish, at least 77% of its relief allotment would end up going to private schools.

Jack now has four associates degrees under his belt and hes not stopping there. So what does he want to do with all his degrees? Well I mean, Im 13, so I dont want to rush everything, Jack said. Thats right, he earned his four degrees in two years. When hes not studying, Jack, like other kids his age, loves to play video games.

LAS VEGAS Immediately after giving his valedictorian speech, high school senior Philip Root, still clad in his cap and gown, climbed into a borrowed race car and drove up to the finish line at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway. The ceremony was part of a growing push by high schools across the country to find a way to hold in-person graduations and offer up some added pomp amid the coronavirus pandemic. In western Maine, the rural Oxford Hills High School is making use of a twin-screen, drive-in movie theater in Bridgton for its graduation on June 21. Like Faith Lutheran in Las Vegas, Phoenix-area seniors at Buckeye Union High School took a celebratory lap in cars around the Phoenix Raceway last weekend. In a Dallas suburb, a 12-hour in-person ceremony took place Friday for the 1,400 graduates of Allen High School.

ORLANDO, Fla. The First Academy in Orlando said that it found a creative way to honor their graduating class, which included walking across an actual stage. On May 15, from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m., students showed up at different times with up to seven guests. The groups moved to different stations set up inside the school, which included receiving their cap and gown and receiving their yearbook. Head of School, Steve Whitaker said it was important to set up an actual stage and let the students hear their name read aloud. The school said it is considering all options for the next school year, as it awaits direction from the governor.

But unlike students at traditional colleges, their learning can't easily translate into Zoom courses, they learn through hands-on demonstrations. But unlike many, she cant finish her classes online her cosmetology program, like the coursework at many technical and trade schools, requires hands-on training. Those specialized skills, known as career and technical education, require hands-on learning. About 8.4 million students are seeking postsecondary certificates and associate degrees in career and technical education fields, according to the Association for Career and Technical Education. Ferguson was heading into a hands-on area of instruction when schools began to close and shift to online learning.

Under their proposed deals, Loughlin, 55, hopes to spend two months in prison and Giannulli, 56, is seeking to serve five months. Loughlin and Giannulli were among dozens of wealthy parents, athletic coaches and others charged last year in the bribery scheme. Prosecutors say they funneled money through a sham charity operated by college admissions consultant Rick Singer, who has pleaded guilty to orchestrating the scheme. Loughlin pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud. Giannulli pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud and honest services wire and mail fraud.

ORLANDO, Fla. The University of Central Florida is preparing to reopen for the fall semester, but with some big changes. News 6 saw signs posted on buildings around campus encouraging students to wear face coverings and practice social distancing. He said he did not imagine his freshman year would end with taking online classes at home. Also part of the universitys reopening proposal is planning for hybrid learning with a mix of face-to-face and online classes. UCF is the largest university in Florida, with more than 69,000 students, according to the schools website.

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University will resume face-to-face instruction at residential campuses in Florida and Arizona on June 30, the school announced Thursday. The private aviation and aerospace university's board of trustees voted unanimously for the move, school officials said in a news release. "Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University is well positioned for this next step. Our safety focus is unparalleled and our board is unanimous in supporting this decision.Flight and housing operations have resumed at the school's campuses in Daytona Beach, Florida, and Prescott, Arizona, Embry-Riddle President P. Barry Butler said in a statement. Our plan focuses on statistical risk testing, risk mitigation, support for contact tracing and most importantly, education, Butler said.

And at some smaller schools, students may be barred from leaving campus. At West Virginia University, President E. Gordon Gee said students dont want to wait for a vaccine, and the school cant afford to. Some plan to make decisions this summer, including Princeton University, where officials say it's too soon to make a call. At many schools, students who test positive would be placed in dorm rooms reserved as quarantine space. Some research universities say they have the lab equipment to analyze virus tests, but not enough swabs and testing chemicals.

\In this Nov. 8, 2019 photo,Tabatha Rosproy, 2020 National Teacher of the Year, is shown with her pre-school students in Winfield, Kansas. The Winfield school district in which Rosproy teaches established the early childhood program two years ago inside Cumbernauld Village, a retirement community and nursing home that sits on 44 acres (17.8 hectares) in south-central Kansas. With thousands of COVID-19 nursing home deaths around the world, Cumbernauld Village also began restricting visitors. Not only was it a fun thing to have and a happy thing, but they felt they were making a difference in childrens lives, said Linda Voth, executive director of Cumbernauld Village. But amid the coronavirus, Rosproy plans to take advantage of digital platforms and media appearances to continue that same work.

Loughlin, 55, and Giannulli, 56, are scheduled to plead guilty Friday via video conference before a federal judge in Boston, who must approve the deal. They agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud in a plea agreement filed in Bostons federal court. Giannulli will also plead guilty to a charge of honest services wire and mail fraud, prosecutors said. They are the 23rd and 24th parents to plead guilty in the case. Others parents who've been sent to prison for participating in the scam include Desperate Housewives actress Felicity Huffman.

News 6 traffic safety expert Trooper Steve Montiero answers viewer questions about the rules of the road, helping Orlando-area residents become better drivers by being better educated. READ MORE: ASK TROOPER STEVE | WHAT THE HONKWhen I first saw the parades happening of course I loved the concept. Whether it was for a graduation, retirement, anniversary, or a birthday celebration the concept and idea is amazing. I know celebrations and having fun is on everyones mind but this is the type of situation where we have to think what if". Technically if we are doing this the right way and the safe way to begin with we can enjoy the specific celebration and not worry about the what if.

(AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)NEW YORK Summer school students will not be reporting to the classroom. New York City will deliver 1 million meals a day to fight hunger during the outbreak. Two young boys and an 18-year-old woman diagnosed with the syndrome have died in New York state. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio on Tuesday said instruction in the citys public schools will be online this summer. The total number of people hospitalized has been slowly declining statewide since mid-April, driven largely by lower numbers in New York City and the downstate region.

School officials in Hoover announced the ceremonies in the city's open-air baseball stadium, after Gov. As a precaution, the graduates are being given face masks and told not to hug friends, exchange high fives or linger afterward. The Spain Park graduates, in their black robes and masks, spread out in chairs across the baseball infield. Another 690 will graduate Thursday from Hoover High, so some 3,450 people could be inside Hoover Metropolitan Stadium then. But parents pleased their children could have a traditional graduation flooded the school's social media feeds with thanks to school officials.

In this handout photo provided by UK Parliament, Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks during Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons, London, Wednesday, May 13, 2020. Prime Minister Boris Johnson made the contact-tracing pledge after more criticism of his government's failure to have a national system in place over the past 10 weeks. Being able to track contacts is considered a central plank of the government's plan to ease further lockdown restrictions. Johnson said there will be 25,000 trackers in place, able to trace the contacts of 10,000 new cases a day. Tommy Sheppard of the Scottish National Party went further, charging Rees-Mogg with being reckless, cavalier and downright dangerous."

LONDON Cambridge has become the first university in Britain to cancel all face-to-face lectures for the 2020-21 academic year because of the coronavirus pandemic, after 800 years of welcoming students to its cloisters, quadrangles and classrooms. Cambridge said late Tuesday that all lectures will be held virtually and streamed online until summer 2021. Cambridge sent students home and moved all its teaching online in March as the U.K. went into lockdown, and exams are being held remotely. California State University announced last week that it will hold a virtual fall semester and keep classrooms closed, becoming the first major U.S. college to cancel lectures for the fall. The University of Manchester said it has moved all lectures online for the fall term, but still expects students to move into its halls of residence.

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. Orange County is now in its final days of distant learning--a process that has been challenging for some families. One Orange County tutor reinvented herself through social media after she was left without a job and realized there was a big need to help struggling parents in their native language. The educator had been a tutor for the Orange County Public Schools Read 2 Succeed program which helps first and second graders with reading comprehension skills. Juncal says she realized the difficulties distant learning brought along when she tried to help her two children. The mother of two says thats when she realized parents who dont speak or understand English well, are probably having a harder time.

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. Members of the Olympia High School class of 2020 decorated their vehicles for a parade on Monday evening. The students gathered at Thornebrook Elementary, before driving through seven neighborhoods where students live. We lost a lot this year, just not being able to like have a real graduation ceremony. Today would have been our actually walkout at Olympia High School, where we would have walked out of school for the last time. So, its really special we can still do something to honor that.Students also said they reached out to HOAs to make sure they were able to conduct the parade in the students neighborhoods.

Amanda Baltimore, a 7th-grade science teacher at DeLaura Middle School, will compete in the 2020 Jeopardy! Teachers Tournament, according to News 6 partner Florida Today. In early March, Jeopardy! began filming without a live audience before suspending production altogether on March 20. Baltimore and her fellow competitors returned home from filming in Los Angeles to find everything changing rapidly. "One of my competitors said, 'Here I thought going on 'Jeopardy!' The annual Jeopardy! Teachers Tournament features 15 teachers for grades K-12 competing for a $100,000 grand prize and a spot in the next Tournament of Champions.

As schools remain under orders from Gov. Ron DeSantis to finish out the school year with distance learning, the Florid State University system is working on developing a plan to reopen classrooms for the upcoming fall semester. According to system officials, the State University System Task Force has been working for weeks to establish a framework for re-opening university campuses in the fall; the Board of Governors chair Syd Kitson has directed State University System Chancellor, Marshall Criser III, to develop guidelines to present to the Board of Governors at a public meeting on May 28, 2020. Universities will then present individual plans, based on these guidelines, to the Board of Governors at a board meeting on June 23, 2020, according to a news release. The task force is focusing on developing guidelines that will prioritize the health and well-being of students, faculty, staff, vendors, and visitors as our institutions continue to battle the COVID-19 pandemic, said Chair Kitson.

For the Class of 2020, the future looks grim. And the benefits are so good.Mere months ago, the graduates of the Class of 2020 seemed all but assured of success. For working-class students who defied the odds to get a college education, its hard to be optimistic about the future. Historically, college graduates entering the work force during a recession have faced setbacks that can last a decade or longer. Whether the Class of 2020 will face long-term setbacks depends on the severity of the recession and the speed of economic recovery, he said.

In this Tuesday, May 5, 2020, photo, Morehouse College senior Lanarion "LTL" Norwood Jr., of Atlanta, works on his computer in a hotel room in Atlanta. Then Bennett, a small historically black womens college in North Carolina, saw Johnsons potential and offered her a full scholarship. HBCUs have the added challenge of educating a large population of low-income and first-generation students who now need more help than ever. Morehouse College President David Thomas said after the last recession enrollment at the all-men's school in Atlanta dropped from about 2,800 to 2,100. It was kind of magical when I first stepped onto the Morehouse campus, Norwood said.