By April Xu, DOCUMENTED The New York City Department of Education has agreed to pay over $40,000 to settle a lawsuit filed in 2019 by Legal Services NYC that claimed the DOE did not provide sufficient language access services to four immigrant parents with limited English proficiency. Each of the four families involved in the case will […]
By Gloria Oladipo, MSN For many students of color, access to an equitable education is dependent on the initiatives and programs provided by the Department of Education. Among its various functions, the department provides targeted funding for low-income students, collects data on educational outcomes and investigates potential bias – essential functions that help underserved students. But […]
By Kevin Welner,THECONVERSATION | Editorial credit: Tada Images / shutterstock.com In her role as former chief executive of World Wrestling Entertainment, Linda McMahon oversaw an enterprise that popularized the “takedown” for millions of wrestling fans. But as President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of education, the Trump loyalist may be tasked with taking down the very department Trump has […]