Gary Stern
Education Editor and Reporter at The Journal News
Editor/reporter @Lohud, Journal News, @USATODAY Network. Veteran schools, religion reporter. Recently engagement editor. [email protected]. Please subscribe
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1 week ago |
yahoo.com | Gary Stern
TARRYTOWN — Some 600 people filled an enormous ballroom at the Westchester Marriot on Friday, April 11, to celebrate the 75th birthday of Volunteer New York and to applaud the inspiring winners of this year's Volunteer Spirit Awards. Volunteer New York was founded in 1950 by a few women who opened a small office in White Plains, hoping to find volunteer opportunities for local folks.
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2 weeks ago |
lohud.com | Gary Stern
New York State will not comply with the Trump administration's request to certify that schools do not have DEI programs. The Trump administration threatened to withhold federal funding from states that do not comply, citing a violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. NY Education Department Counsel Daniel Morton Bentley responded the Trump administration does not have the authority to change the terms of federal funding without an administrative process.
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2 months ago |
yahoo.com | Gary Stern
Veteran journalist Thomas C. Zambito covers energy, transportation and economic growth for the USA Today Network’s New York State team. He recently reported on the beating death of an inmate at a state prison in Utica and what it's revealed about both violence in New York's prisons and the pivotal role of body cams in investigating potential police and guard brutality.
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2 months ago |
yahoo.com | Gary Stern
Republicans have been calling for the demise of the U.S. Department of Education since its creation in 1979 by President Jimmy Carter and Congress, insisting it's a prime example of federal overreach since the U.S. Constitution doesn't mention a role for Washington in education. The department is still hanging on almost 50 years later.
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2 months ago |
yahoo.com | Gary Stern |Nancy Cutler
Two executive orders issued by the Trump administration on Jan. 29 seek to bring the president's promised change to education in three politically divisive areas: gender, DEI and school choice. Some officials in New York were predictably concerned with Trump's push into schools, where decisions are generally made at the local and state levels. But the executive orders raised many questions yet to be answered, leaving it to cabinet members to figure out the details.
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