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EXCLUSIVE: Trump Administration Tells Columbia How to Get Its $400M Back
Ivy League college told to ban masks, expel or suspend students who promote Jew-hate, and put a department under ‘academic receivership’ for five years.
Frannie Block and Maya Sulkin
EXCLUSIVE: Trump Administration Cancels $400 Million in Grants to Columbia
The cuts are “only the beginning,” according to Trump’s antisemitism task force.
Maya Sulkin and Gabe Kaminsky
EXCLUSIVE: DOJ Opens Antisemitism Investigation Into the University of California System
The Department of Justice says one of the largest public university systems in the country may be discriminating ‘against employees who are or are…
Gabe Kaminsky
Trump to Columbia: Fix Campus Antisemitism or Lose $5 Billion in Federal Funds
Fed probe ‘is as serious as can be,’ says task force member. ‘I have the Department of Education guys texting me every day asking when they can start…
Maya Sulkin
Deborah Lipstadt: Why I Won’t Teach at Columbia
I was Biden’s antisemitism envoy. I had been considering an academic appointment at the Ivy League institution. Not anymore.
Deborah Lipstadt
Welcome to Hamassachusetts
‘Rampant and ubiquitous antisemitism’ is making its way into the largest teachers union in New England, lawmakers say.
Frannie Block and Will Sussman
EXCLUSIVE: A High Schooler Graduated with a 3.4 GPA. He Couldn’t Even Read.
Now, the Tennessee teen is suing his school district, Frannie Block reports.
Frannie Block
How American Educators Are Conning Kids
As U.S. students keep falling behind, educators keep lowering standards. ‘It’s like telling everyone they’re a great swimmer when you know half of us…
Frannie Block
Betsy DeVos: Shut Down the Department of Education
I served as the 11th U.S. secretary of education. That’s how I know it’s beyond repair.
Betsy DeVos
Deporting ‘Pro-Jihadist’ Students: Censorship or Good Governance?
Ilya Shapiro and Robert Shibley debate Trump’s executive orders on antisemitism.
Ilya Shapiro and Robert Shibley
Inside Columbia University’s ‘Museum of Terror’
A recent exhibit presented the tools and planning behind the Hamilton Hall break-in. A speaker called for a ‘Zionist-free NYC.’
Maya Sulkin
Should Fifth Graders Learn What It Means to Be Transgender?
Ben Kawaller meets an education activist who wants kids to be taught that sex is assigned and gender is a social construct.
Ben Kawaller
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