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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The U.S. Department of Education is investigating if nearly 90 elementary, secondary and higher education campuses across the nation — including at UC Davis and other University of California campuses — violated a federal civil rights law after an “alarming” rise in reports of antisemitism, anti-Muslim and anti-Arab discrimination erupted at schools amid the Israel-Hamas war. In a news release, the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights said each campus is under review for alleged violations of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits discrimination ......

NEW YORK — One of Henry Hernandez’s biggest joys this past year has been watching his daughter thrive at her new school. Everything else — the irregular gigs, asylum applications, legal fees and instability of living at the emergency shelter The Row — has passed by in a blur of stress, bureaucracy and disappointment for the migrant from Venezuela. His 6-year-old daughter, Antonella, loves “everything about school,” at P.S. 116 Mary Lindley Murray in Murray Hill. She’s learning English faster than anyone else in the family. He’s proud of her. She’s actually charting a course he imagined as he s......

The federal government has launched a civil rights probe into Harvard University’s use of legacy admissions, the U.S. Department of Education said Tuesday, increasing pressure on universities already grappling with intense backlash to the practice. The disclosure arrived three weeks after a Boston civil rights group filed a complaint with the Education Department over Harvard’s use of legacy admissions — the practice of advantaging the children of alumni in admissions decisions — and almost a month after the Supreme Court’s landmark decision banning affirmative action nationwide. Legacy admiss......

NEW YORK — Several ultra-Orthodox religious schools fail to provide students with a basic education in subjects such as reading and math, city officials found in a highly anticipated report released Friday. The yearslong investigation into more than two dozen Brooklyn yeshivas concluded that four do not offer secular instruction: Yeshiva Bnei Shimon Yisroel of Sopron, Yeshiva Kerem Shlomo, Yeshiva Oholei Torah and Yeshiva Ohr Menachem. The city recommended that the state find another 14 yeshivas to be noncompliant. But education officials declined to release the details of those investigations......

President Joe Biden’s administration on Thursday said it will propose a rule to ensure transgender students can participate in school sports. The proposed rule comes a day after lawmakers in Kansas overrode Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s veto to block transgender students from participating in girls and women’s sports. The Department of Education’s proposed rule would say that laws like the one passed in Kansas violate federal Title IX laws, which prevent discrimination on the basis or sex, while also allowing some schools to adopt policies that limit transgender participation in sports at the ......

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — As Gov. Ron DeSantis and Florida Republican leaders explore alternatives to the College Board’s AP classes and tests, top state officials have been meeting with the founder of an education testing company supporters say is focused on the “great classical and Christian tradition.” The Classic Learning Test, founded in 2015, is used primarily by private schools and home-schooling families and is rooted in the classical education model, which focuses on the “centrality of the Western tradition.” The founder of the company, Jeremy Tate, said the test is meant to be an alternati......