Madina Toure
Education Reporter at POLITICO
NYC K-12 & higher ed @politicony. @muslimseries co-curator. Comorian🇰🇲, Guinean🇬🇳, Muslim American. Send tips to [email protected]. DM for Signal.
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1 week ago |
politico.com | Bianca Quilantan |Madina Toure
That nascent pushback, showcased by Harvard’s decision to reject several proposals from Trump this week, is a notable turnaround from a year ago, when universities appeared more timid about their response to pro-Palestinian campus protests. But what’s unclear is how long even the wealthiest universities can weather a White House and conservative movement so committed to having a public spat with institutions easily branded as elite, exclusive and wealthy.
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3 weeks ago |
politico.com | Madina Toure |Jeff Coltin |Nick Reisman |Emily Ngo
With help from Cris Seda Chabrier Gov. Kathy Hochul and state lawmakers are still negotiating the details of a full-day cellphone ban in schools. | Spencer Platt/Getty Images NEW YORK MINUTE: Happy fiscal new year (and April Fool’s) to all who celebrate. The state budget is officially late, and lawmakers have until noon to approve a stop-gap bill to meet payroll for some 58,000 state workers and fulfill Medicaid payments. There’s more budget news below.
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3 weeks ago |
politico.com | Madina Toure
She overcame initial reservations from Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and state Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins to make New York the fifth state in the nation to ban cellphone use during school hours, joining Arkansas, Louisiana, Virginia and South Carolina. More than a dozen red and blue states have instituted phone bans or restrictions in schools. Florida — the first state in the country to curtail use during class — is also eyeing the bell-to-bell approach.
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1 month ago |
politico.com | Madina Toure
The Trump administration took away $400 million in federal funding earlier this month. Columbia University has been under intense scrutiny by the Trump administration for its response to antisemitism on campus. | Ted Shaffrey/AP Photo NEW YORK — Columbia University has agreed to measures that include changes to its rules for campus protest in response to Trump administration threats to withhold $400 million from the Ivy League school.
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1 month ago |
politico.com | Bianca Quilantan |Madina Toure
The Trump administration laid out a list of major conditions Thursday Columbia University would have to meet if it wanted its $400 million in federal research money turned back on. Demonstrators from the group, Jewish Voice for Peace, protest inside Trump Tower in support of Columbia graduate student Mahmoud Khalil on March 13, 2025, in New York.
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