
Kayla Jimenez
National Correspondent at USA Today
Drawing hearts in the byline 🥀 | National correspondent @USATODAY reporting on American schools, culture & more | Let's write together: [email protected]
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2 weeks ago |
usatoday.com | Kayla Jimenez
Chicago school officials felt they needed to address the academic achievement gap between Black students and other kids on their campuses. So they created the Black Student Success Plan, a program to help those kids thrive. What they didn't know was that the program would become the center of a federal investigation and a symbol of rebellion against the Trump administration. Nor did they know that their district could lose federal funding.
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2 weeks ago |
usatoday.com | Kayla Jimenez
• Oklahoma will require public high school students to learn disproved claims about alleged voting irregularities in the 2020 election promoted by President Donald Trump's supporters. • The curriculum will be implemented in the 2025-2026 school year. Oklahoma's public school history teachers will soon be required to teach the disproved conspiracy theory that the Democratic Party stole the 2020 presidential election from President Donald Trump.
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2 weeks ago |
flipboard.com | Kayla Jimenez
Half of states now have laws banning or regulating cellphones in schools, with more to followBills have sprinted through legislatures this year in states as varied as New York and Oklahoma, reflecting a broad consensus that phones are bad for kids. ATLANTA — Florida was the first state to pass a law regulating the use of cellphones in schools in 2023. Just two years later, half of all states …
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3 weeks ago |
usatoday.com | Savannah Kuchar |Kayla Jimenez |Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy
President Donald Trump on May 7 announced a new pick for U.S. surgeon general, naming Dr. Casey Means, an ally of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. with a prominent online following who is an advocate for metabolic health and preventing chronic disease. It was a decision that quickly sparked drama among some Trump supporters, skepticism from some people who practice traditional medicine and hurrahs from many of Means' online followers.
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4 weeks ago |
postcrescent.com | Savannah Kuchar |Kayla Jimenez |Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy
After Trump's named his new surgeon general pick, Laura Loomer said 'MAHA is literally being taken over by Marxists and Grifters.' What to know about the nominee, a glucose monitoring company founder. Savannah Kuchar Kayla Jimenez Swapna Venugopal RamaswamyUSA TODAYPresident Donald Trump on May 7 announced a new pick for U.S. surgeon general, naming Dr. Casey Means, an ally of Robert F.
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