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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The feud between Gov. Ron DeSantis and the College Board over Florida rejecting the AP African American studies course escalated Monday with DeSantis threatening to drop the organization’s Advanced Placement classes from Florida high schools. “So this College Board, nobody elected them to anything. They’re just kind of there and provide this service, and you can utilize those services or not,” DeSantis said when asked to comment on the College Board’s statement over the weekend that the Florida Department of Education had slandered it. “They provided these AP courses for a ......

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The feud between Gov. Ron DeSantis and the College Board over Florida rejecting the AP African American studies course escalated Monday with DeSantis threatening to drop the organization’s Advanced Placement classes from Florida high schools. “So this College Board, nobody elected them to anything. They’re just kind of there and provide this service, and you can utilize those services or not,” DeSantis said when asked to comment on the College Board’s statement over the weekend that the Florida Department of Education had slandered it. “They provided these AP courses for a ......

NEW YORK — Ghislaine Maxwell will likely spend the rest of her life in prison unless she can win a long-shot appeal — or is willing to come clean about everyone who was involved in Jeffrey Epstein’s criminal enterprise. Even then, experts say it will depend on what she knows and when the crimes happened. Maxwell’s conviction Dec. 29 on five of six sex charges was a stunning denouement for the former British socialite who counted royalty, presidents and some of the world’s wealthiest people among her closest friends. It also presents the possibility that she could be sentenced to decades in pri......

PALO ALTO, Calif. — With COVID-19 on the rise again, Stanford University announced Thursday it will return to remote classes for the first two weeks of the winter quarter. The announcement in an email to the campus community comes just weeks after university officials reported a surge in cases among students and faculty following the Thanksgiving weekend. Remote classes will begin on Jan. 3 for most students, and officials expect in-person classes to return on Jan. 18. In the letter, Provost Persis Drell and Vice Provost for Environmental Health and Safety Russell Furr assured students they ar......

CHICAGO — Kyujin Derradji is well-versed in Advanced Placement exams, having taken one as a sophomore and three as a junior. Now a senior at Northside College Prep High School, Derradji, 17, of Humboldt Park, is slated to take four more exams in May. But this pandemic year is different. “My classes have divided up the learning materials too much to accommodate for remote learning,” Derradji said in an email. “I feel wildly unprepared to take timed AP exams where I have to fill these gaps in preparation on the spot.” Starting this week, thousands of students in Chicago and the surrounding subur......

Actress Lori Loughlin has been released from prison after serving nearly two months behind bars for her role in the college admissions cheating scandal. The “Full House” star walked out of a federal correctional facility in Dublin, California, early Monday morning, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons. She will now have to spend two years in supervised release as part of her sentence. Loughlin and her husband, who’s serving his own sentence at a separate California lockup, were sent to prison for paying $500,000 in bribes to get their two daughters accepted into college as fake athletic ......