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Critics said the changes, mostly in the South, moved the nation “back toward the Jim Crow era.” Justice Department officials said the decrees were outdated.

The lawsuit was filed by one of 19 educators laid off in June amid a reorganization of the Manhattan university to address its financial problems.

Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said the goal was to better integrate non-Italian speaking children, but critics accused her of trying to appease anti-immigrant sentiment.

Our Ukraine correspondent Siobhán O’Grady visits a school in Kyiv where air raid sirens interrupt classes all day and children must take shelter.

The liberal arts college announced a center dedicated to the “Invisible Man” author, who taught classes there.

Losing its accreditation ability would be a blow to the nation’s largest association of lawyers and another example of how the Trump administration is reshaping higher education.

Hannah Gann, who teaches at a Philadelphia high school, said that she had misled people for years and that is “a white woman of significant privilege.”

The gift from Phil Knight, the Nike co-founder, is the largest known donation to a flagship university. It will fund a new engineering college.

The new models can prove expensive and unreliable and lack the range to fully replace older buses, stalling a transition from fossil fuels.

President Claudia Sheinbaum has sharply limited the use of cellphones and screens in schools. The measures will go into effect in November.

Universities have been accused of doctoring photos to showcase diversity in the past. In this case, a Black woman replaced a Hispanic young man, who said it was upsetting to be “erased.”

The Massachusetts Institute for Technology pulled ahead on a set of criteria that are as contentious as they are influential.

On “A Different World” he helped define an era. With a Netflix reboot, he helps pass the torch to a new generation.

Being female or a person of color has long been seen as a disadvantage in hiring and promotion. A new study of college professors shows that class may loom as large.