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2 weeks ago | indianapolisrecorder.com | Kenya Vaughn |Mandi Patterson

This story was originally published in The St. Louis American. More than 4000 members of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated will be in the city where their sisterhood all began this weekend when the 91st Central Regional Conference gets underway at America’s Center. “Howard University gets to claim the founding of AKA,” said Kiahna W. Davis, Alpha Kappa Alpha Central Regional Director.

1 month ago | indianapolisrecorder.com | Collin Binkley |Mandi Patterson

By COLLIN BINKLEYWASHINGTON (AP) — The Education Department’s civil rights branch is losing nearly half its staff in the Trump administration’s layoffs, effectively gutting an office that already faced a backlog of thousands of complaints from students and families across the nation. Among a total of more than 1,300 layoffs announced Tuesday were roughly 240 in the department’s Office for Civil Rights, according to a list obtained and verified by The Associated Press.

1 month ago | indianapolisrecorder.com | MJ Slaby |Amelia Pak-Harvey |Mandi Patterson

By MJ Slaby and Amelia Pak-HarveyDiscussion of legislation that would require Indianapolis Public Schools to share property tax revenue with charter schools dominated the roughly two hours of public comment at the Indianapolis Public Schools board meeting on Thursday. The debate over Senate Bill 518, which the state Senate has passed, underscores the tensions between IPS and the charter school community.