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Why Harvard Decided to Fight Trump

Late last week, officials at Harvard University were trying to decipher what the Trump administration wanted the school to do to combat anti...
People cross Harvard Science Center Plaza in Cambridge, Mass. on April 3, 2025. Harvard’s decision to push back on the Trump administration’s demands marked a turning point in confrontations between schools and the government. (Sophie Park/The New York Times)

Why Harvard Decided to Fight Trump

Late last week, officials at Harvard University were trying to decipher what the Trump administration wanted the school to do to combat anti...

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Fresno Unified’s Likely New Special Ed Bus Contractor Will Keep Current Employees

Fresno Unified school bus drivers, who have feared job loss for months, will finally get answers during an upcoming trustees meeting on Wedn...

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A demonstrator speaks through a megaphone during a Defend Our Schools rally to protest U.S. President Donald Trump's executive order to shut down the U.S. Department of Education, outside its building in Washington, D.C., U.S., March 21, 2025. (REUTERS File)

NAACP Sues US Education Department Over DEI School Funding Cuts

(Reuters) – The NAACP sued the U.S. Department of Education on Tuesday to stop its alleged illegal effort to cut off funding to school...

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In this Aug. 13, 2019 file photo, students walk near the Widener Library in Harvard Yard at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. University and federal officials confirmed that incoming Harvard University student Ismail Ajjawi, 17, of Lebanon, was refused entry into the U.S. after landing at Logan International Airport in Boston on Friday, Aug. 23. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

Trump Administration Freezes $2.2 Billion in Grants to Harvard Over Campus Activism

BOSTON — The federal government says it’s freezing more than $2.2 billion in grants and $60 million in contracts to Harvard University, afte...

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Harvard University’s campus in Cambridge, Mass., Sept. 6, 2024. The Trump administration said on Monday, March 31, 2025, that it was reviewing roughly $9 billion in federal grants and contracts awarded to Harvard, accusing the school of allowing antisemitism to run unchecked on its campus. (Sophie Park/The New York Times)

Harvard Says It Will Not Comply With Trump Administration’s Demands

Harvard University said Monday that it had rejected policy changes requested by the Trump administration, becoming the first university to d...

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Money, Not Instruction Time, Is at Heart of Designated Schools Negotiations

For close to a year, Fresno Unified and its teachers union have been haggling over the district’s proposed elimination of its Designated Sch...

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Trump Canceled Millions in CA School Grants. The State Sues to Reclaim the Money

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. The Trump administration overstepped its authority when it...

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This FUSD Lawsuit Heads Back to Appellate Court for Third Time

A civil lawsuit that has already cost Fresno Unified taxpayers more than $1.7 million in lawyer and court costs looks to be heading back to ...

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Central Valley Students Invited to Apply for CMAC’s Youth Voices Program

Fresno’s Community Media Access Collaborative is accepting applications for its 2025 Youth Voices program, a free 10-week documentary ...

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Trustees Select Fresno Unified’s New Superintendent. Was ‘the Fix’ On?

Trustees have begun negotiations on a contract to make Misty Her the next Fresno Unified superintendent, multiple sources tell GV Wire. Her ...

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Bailey Rosenberger (left) has been arrested in the 2016 cold case murder of a Fresno store clerk, Gurcharn Singh Gill, who was fatally stabbed during a robbery. (Fresno PD)
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U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell speaks at a press conference, following a two-day meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee on interest rate policy, in Washington, D.C., U.S., March 19, 2025. (REUTERS File)
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Fresno was featured in a clue on Monday’s Jeopardy! episode, earning contestant Andrew Hayes $800 and highlighting the city’s Armenian heritage and Spanish name origin.
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U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. discusses the findings of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) latest Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring (ADDM) Network survey, during a press conference at the Department of Health and Human Services in Washington, D.C., U.S., April 16, 2025. (REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz)
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