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Ivy League colleges get huge subsidies from federal govt.
The most exclusive and elite private colleges are heavily subsidized by taxpayer funds, according to a report on funds that Ivy League colleges receive from the federal government.
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BC’s Red Bandanna Run commemorates 9/11 selfless act
BOSTON – Standing at the finish line of Boston College's Red Bandanna Run this past Saturday, Alison Crowther bounced with energy, tirelessly calling encouragement to each of the nearly 2,000 participants in the race, waving a red bandanna back and forth. Each runner, also wearing a crimson bandanna,
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NAACP set to denounce charter schools, despite support among black parents
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is poised to call for a national moratorium on charter school openings, even though charter schools are very popular with black parents.
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State aide sought to change classification of Clinton email
WASHINGTON (AP) – A senior State Department official asked the FBI to help last year in reducing the classification of an email from Hillary Clinton's private server, according to bureau records released Monday. It was to be part of a bargain that would have allowed the FBI to deploy
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Harvard Law profs challenge federal sex-assault ‘guidance’
CAMBRIDGE – A collection of prominent law school professors, including Harvard's Alan Dershowitz, shot back at President Barack Obama's Education Department over its practice of using "Dear Colleague" letters to lay down policy mandates that ride roughshod over Americans' constitutional rights. A letter from
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Welcome, college freshmen: here’s a pronoun pin
BURLINGTON, Vt. — Colorful pins used to inform a new acquaintance of one's gender identity, similar to ones distributed at July's Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, are now popping up on college campuses. At Champlain College in Vermont, such "pronoun pins" are making an appearance
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Future unclear for Massachusetts Common Core opponents after court ruling
BOSTON — A week after a Supreme Judicial Court ruling delivered a fatal blow to their efforts to put the future of Common Core educational standards into the hands of voters, the woman who spearheaded the doomed ballot initiative said she's only just begun to consider what the next
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Charter school cap debate a heated, Boston-centric affair
BOSTON — City Councilor Tito Jackson and former Democratic state Rep. Marty Walz engaged in what was at times a heated debate Tuesday over Question 2, which will ask voters state-wide this November whether to lift the cap on public charter schools. Although the impact of the November vote will be
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